| Strategyking92 said: I get kind of mad when I think about it... But the psp could have been bigger than the DS, if sony had put their full support in it. Hell, it's best year was it's first - 2005, when it outsold the DS for a number of weeks. The DS lite was released, and sony had no chance. UNLESS, they would have had the same great marketing the DS had at the time, and a slightly lower price. 2006 came and went, with medium software support. And when the ps3 launched.. And it seemed sony lost sight of the psp, and tried to push the ps3 onto people. Now, if sony would have bitten the bullet, and sold the psp for a slightly higher loss (other than at launch), maybe something could have been different. They did so with the ps3... Why not the psp? So, the ps3 is like a twin, feeding off the other twins life support (the psp). /rant |
No the DS has a touch sensitive screen which means it can do many interactive things far better than the PSP.
Sony put their $$ into the graphics and CPU pipelines and have a very powerfull graphics and CPU - it can do better graphics, it's practically a Portable PS2.
It's like the Wii and the PS3 where sony spend $ on graphics and CPU and nintendo spent $ developing a better interface - Nintendo out classed the competition in an unexpected way again ! - I think the user interface controls are very important - the PSP uses a crappy xy force button thing - the same used to be common on laptops untill the touch pad's came along - the DS goes one step better with a touch sensitive screen.
The cost to produce is important, DS is much cheaper to manufacture and to buy, while the leading edge chipset in PSP will take alot longer to reduce price and even if it was cheaper would still not have a touch interface.
Here is a marketing feature comparison - if I included multimedia then PSP would get one extra point but people use Ipod etc for multimedia for a game console and gaming it's not so important.
price touch graphics
DS 1 1 0
PSP 0 0 1
Score DS=2 , PSP=1
PSP is doing huge sales getting over 40 Million is incredible so why be concerned about the DS sure it's over 90 but does not mean PSP is failing in any way it's doing fine as a combo multimedia/game device.
PS3 number 1 fan
