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KillerMan on 08 June 2009
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atma998 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
atma998 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
The hardware numbers are fine, but the PSP software numbers are already awful. They're not tracked well at all.

PSP software numbers are as awfully tracked as DS software numbers. Beside, in proportion, they are fine. DS is 419 million and PSP is 113 million software sold. If you look at the size of the space shelves in different stores, you will notice that DS space is usually 4 times bigger than PSP shelve space. That makes sense. 

No, the PSP wins that battle by a country mile. Are you really going to argue proportions by means of shelf space? What, did you take a ruler and personally measure shelf space in various stores? The PSP's software is horribly, horribly tracked. I'm pretty sure the staff have even gone on record saying the data for it is largely incomplete. Say what you will about the DS's software numbers, but they're at least tracked decently. The PSP software is tracked awfully. Take, for example, the latest Others chart. Are you really going to say that out of 18.6 million PSP owners, that only about 30k of them bought a game that week, and the top selling game only sold 2,400 copies? And besides, who asked about the DS anyways? This is about the PSP, and you're wrong anyways.

Montana, Montana, Montana... LOL

Didnt'you have your lesson last time we have an argument and all that you have said was unanimously considered as fail?

First of all shelf space is a very good sign of sales level. It was true last gen with the PS2 shelf space vs. GC and XBOX and it's still true with current gen consoles. Take a look in stores like Wal-Mart, EB Games, Best Buy, Costco, GameStop, what all these stores have in common? They all have a Wii Section 2 times bigger than PS3 section and at least 1.5 times bigger than X360 too. Now take a look at the sales : Wii = 50M, X360 = 30M and PS3 = 22M. Unless you think it's just chance or fortune you have to admit that shelf space is strongly linked to sales.

Now DS section is 3-4 times bigger than PSP section in all the major selling point they are. So it's OK to assume DS software is 3-4 times higher than PSP software.

PSP is horribly tracked in Europe. Really, when 28k pieces of software are sold for userbase of 18.6milj. for one week then tracking is horrible. DS software is tracked a lot better in Europe.