Jereel Hunter on 03 May 2009
| puffy said: The portable space isn't big enough to support 3 big portable gaming devices.. It'd be like the PS2 gen, I don't think it'd work out and I also don't think Microsoft want to have to worry about a portable gaming system on top of the 360 |
Current DS sales: 102.16M
Current PSP sales: 46.83M
So a hair under 150M, with over 500k selling a week isn't big enough to support 3?
I'd say all MS has to do is make sure they profit off of the hardware, and it's a worthy investment to build the Xbox brand. I mean, the portable could easily be made to play any arcade game, and be able to DL movies and shows from Xbox live... Oh, and check this out - the current PSP, released like 4-5 years ago has a 333mhz CPU... how hard would it be to put 700mhz and 256mb of ram into a portable these days? Give the Xbox Mini (or whatever its called) the ability to play Xbox classics games... maybe give it a USB connector that lets your PC/360 transfer xbox games onto it's internal HD (or DL those too from Live). This opens up a vast market for old games which would be almost pure profit... and give a starting VAST library of awesome games to a portable for a fraction of the cost of even what portable games normally cost. Heck, giving MS the chance to resell all the classic Xbox games, maybe they wouldn't need to make money on the hardware after all. I'm not a fan of portables, but I'd buy one with those options.
Oh man, playing Halo:CE over wireless... on a handheld... mmm...
