G4TV: Yahoo is wrong, the PSP is very much alive

[Aj_habfan]

bdbdbd said:
@mai: Why not? Sony should go 3rd party and it would actually make money.

@Aj_Habfan: That's true that they are experimenting, but still, they aren't doing it for the PSP.
What Take Two looks, is that the best selling game on PSP is their own GTA:LCS, which is a five million seller and other games aren't even close (number two is VCS, below 3M), when DS has above 20M on Nintendogs, above 15M NSMB, Pokemon D/P and Brain Training and above 10M Mario Kart DS, More Brain Training and Animal Crossing WW. And to add to that, Super Mario 64 DS and Big Brain Academy are above Liberty City Stories too (and Mario Party DS likely passes it).

@nitecrawler: It doesn't base itself on PS2 architecture (which is actually tricky). PSP has the architecture as the DS has, only that PSP has more powerful interiors.
What's making the cost difference, is that PSP games tend to be home console games on a handheld, when DS games are handheld games on a handheld. So i'd think that PSP games would need a budget closer to Wii games budget than DS games budget.

No 3rd party game has achieved those numbers, was my point. And 3m is nothing to sneeze at.