CortezTheKiller said:
What? Over fifty million PSP sales and many hundreds of millions of Walkman-branded device sales over three decades suggest otherwise. Sony have huge brand recognition for both IPs. 99% of gamers do not shun handheld gaming platforms to buy mobile phones to play three thousand different games where you tilt the device to stop a ball falling down a hole or steer a car. People buy a PSP to play games. People buy an iPhone to make calls and surf the WWW - most of those who wish to game as well, and have chosen the iPhone over the PSP and DS, are the type who are looking for the aforementioned, casual, play-on-the-bus-to-work crap. Hardly a threat to the PSP with it's existing and announced library. And no, Metal Gear Touch is not an example of how iPhone games are going hardcore as it proved the platform sucks for anything more than "don't let your ball fall down a hole". It makes me laugh: one minute the PSP is inadequate because it doesn't have a second analogue stick, the next minute it's obsolete thanks to a device with no buttons at all. If PSP2 has game downloads, a much better browser than PSP, dual analogue sticks and a touchscreen, it will sell very big numbers. And few will give a toss that they cannot make cellphone calls. |
I do not think that is what he is saying, I think what he meant is simply people buy an iPhone to make calls and stuff and use it AS a phone. People buy PSPs and DS' to play games, if I wanted to play games I definitely would buy a PSP/DS over an iPhone. If I wanted to have a nifty new multimedia phone then I'd buy an iPhone. Another fact he was stating was against the statement that Sony has no power in the market because
"Over fifty million PSP sales and several hundred million Walkman sales over three decades prove you are talking bollocks."
That was not a slam on Apple, just a statement that Sony has established themselves as a solid force in the market.
