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Louie on 25 March 2007
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Shane said: Erik Aston said: First of all, PSP isn't hugely profitable. It was supposed to buoy PlayStation financially during the early years of PS3 and wind-down of PS2. Thats not happening. Furthermore, while getting 35-40% marketshare (which its falling below already, btw) is nice, "getting a foothold in the market" as you seem to be implying is nonsense. Every market leader in VG history has gotten there with their first entry. They won't. The portable gaming market isn't perceived as a long-term threat to their PC OS monopoly like Google, PlayStation or iPod. And thats really all MS is interested in. The first year or two are rarely profitable. If they are, your system's probably overpriced. Wii's potentially the one exception to this. Every market leader in VG history? So that would be Atari. Who had no competition. Nintendo. Who had no competition. Nintendo again. Who had no competition again. And Sony. Whose competition committed suicide. Sony actually has a fight on its hands with PSP, much like Microsoft is fighting on the console front. Microsoft wants to stem slowing growth. A portable gaming entry would be one avenue worth exploring. Though certainly focusing on just growing the Xbox at this point is the chief objective of the entertainment division.
Atari had no competition? Nintendo had no competition? (a giant dead market is bigger competition than any Sony or Microsoft like company... oh and there was the Master System)... Super NES had no competition? (Megadrive/Genesis? Biggest console war in history?) Sony had no competition with the biggest game company at this time and Sega, too? Okay, you wrote a new gaming history now @Li Mu Bai: Good point. The DS has a huge line-up in the US this year with Pokemon and Legend of Zelda the numbers should stay on a GBA - like level. And for Japan: Even if no games are released brain training and co. are selling the system. It´s nearly impossible for Nintendo to sell less than 25 million systems there. This thing could even pass the GB´s 30 million and become the best selling system ever in Japan... this is huge... Two years ago I expected the DS to sell 50 million consoles till 2010 and the PSP so too. And now the DS is selling better than any other system. Nintendo had a hell of luck with the system.