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Over the crucial month of November, the Nintendo DS shifted a jaw-dropping 1.5 million units in the US alone (up 20% from last year) while the PSP languished, managing just 421,000 sales -- actually down 27%, in what was in general a tremendously strong month for video games. ... In a lot of ways, it's a shame. The PSP is a far more capable hardware platform than the DS. It's a phone, a portable music player, a pocket-sized movie device, a mobile web browser, and when paired with a Playstation 3, a remarkably capable remote control for the system, capable of streaming music and movies from a PS3 over the Internet to wherever you happen to be. ... And why, in an age when flash memory is so cheap it practically comes in Cheerios boxes, are we still stuck with a huge, bulky, slow, and noisy optical drive? |
Unfortunately, a lot of this is true and quite valid. Right now it's my most played gaming machine (DJ MAX and MHP2) and I've definitely gotten my moneys worth, but, the future does not look so bright for the device. I would like to see the situation turn around. Maybe consumer tastes will change but I would not bet on it.
