The reason the PSP will never surpass the DS

[IxisNaugus]

digitalentourage said:

IxisNaugus said:
@ digitalentourage: I think you're ignoring the bigger picture. Your argument about the 'core', highly rated DS titles not selling well is pretty misinformed and the sales you posted aren't accurate. Why did you handpick a couple of games, most of which have actually sold very well, ignore countless others and then say games without Mario or Zelda in the name "simply do not sell"? What the hell?

You can say the majority of DS owners "do not own it for the core games", but the same could just as easily apply to the PSP. Why are you making it sound as if every last one of those who bought a PSP is a 'core gamer'? The PSP is also flooded with casuals. I'll also take this time to remind people that core games do under-perform on other consoles as well, it's not some Nintendo exclusive disease.

I just cant see 600k sales of one of the most popular video game franchises in history on possibly the most popular handheld and not make a comment on it.

The only point I wish to make is that in general, core games are not the reason the DS has such a large lead over the PSP.

that is the only thing I've been trying to say.

If that was the case, you'd have more than 400k sales on a platform with 100+ million installbase.

 

This may be, but the core games on the PSP aren't why it's selling a lot. Putting the DS being above the PSP argument aside, i'd like to pluck a certain part of your arguments. You seem to have this warped view of what a core title is. You've constantly made it sound as though the PSP is associated with the core gamers and absolutely no one else, do you know how casual that console is? You can't possibly insinuate that it's 50mil+ userbase are all core. For goodness sake the thing comes off as more of a media device than a gaming console, admittedly all consoles seem to be heading down this path. Did you ever explain how GTA: LCS was core but NSMB was not?

Back on track, i have a few educated guesses as to why the DS is outselling the PSP but no concrete, absolute reason. The PSP though, is no more core than the DS, i don't see how you could even imply such a thing. It has no larger amount of core games than the DS that sell more.