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@bdbdbd (in your reply to me):
True, but PSP still generates more than decent profit on HW, some profit particularly on biggest games titles and almost no profit anymore on UMD movies, so what's most likely is disappearance of UMD movies, as you mentioned, reduction of shelf space for games bar during best titles launches and enough shelf space for PSP consoles as long as HW is profitable enough, and currently PSP HW still sells well, as absolute numbers.
Despite numbers and shares, anyway, this Xmas in Italy I saw a lot of stores giving front row and more of the extra space dynamically allocated to special offers to PS3 bundles, followed by Wii bundles and in the last row XB360 bundles, while both portable consoles, DS and PSP, were relegated behind not portable ones despite the good numbers for one and the incredible ones for the other.
Games shelves are a bloody mess both in megastores and in specialized videogames store like EBGames.
Maybe it has something to do with increased BD sales, that make resellers like PS3 a little more than it should be for consoles and games numbers alone added to confidence in the appeal the PS brand still has and the fact that for Xmas buyers are more likely than in others periods to buy costly items.
OTOH Wii was quite slow to gain acceptance by resellers, but its huge attach rate either for games and for a lot of HW add-ons is slowly changing their mind.



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