| __XBrawlX__ said: Seeing how badly PSP performed based on the amount of Support it had in the beginning, I doubt that the PSP 2 will be a real contender to the Hand held battle next gen... |
Sony ruined the movie part with the bad idea of a proprietary disc that doesn't offer to users perceivable advantages over standard mini-DVD's, and let's not consider the bad idea to think people would pay to see movies on a very small screen amounts worth the producers' effort, the movie part of the business, had it started asking a more reasonable price, would have been barely profitable without the burden of a proprietary format, but for a device that would want to do everything, and we know haw bad this ends usually, and considering that it was the first Sony handheld and it had to clash against the titan of handhelds, it didn't go so bad, right now it's approaching 44million units sold. PSP is doing quite good in HW sales, although SW sales are acceptable only because the user base is large enough to give decent numbers despite a very low attach rate, and movies sales are (well, more correctly, were) a disaster. But in the end, people buy them, Sony earns money from them, it's more than MS managed to do with Zune, and a lot more of all the past handhelds that defied Nintendo and died.
