The reason the PSP will never surpass the DS

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TX109 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

The PSP is more hardcore than the DS, because it doesn't have too many games that appeal to casuals. It has the gorier, grittier, mature titles. It has intermediate level games or higher at best with few casual titles. The DS is a great portable that has way more games that casuals can "pick up and play" along with games that hardcore can play as well. Except on the flip side, theres less of a percentage of hardcore games on that portable. As one person said before...for every hardcore game, there are five casual games on the DS. Nintendo has always thought of everyone and not just the hardcore. This is what everyone seems to forget.

basically what i get every time i read a post form you is this: if it's not packed with gore, titties, and excessive cursing, it's casual.

say what you will, but the early mario games were quite challenging. back then casual appeal wasn't what it is today. super mario bros. on the NES sold over 40 million not because it was casual, but because it was a good game. also as far as SMG goes, you said it yourself, there is enough material for hardcores (...loyalists, who find quality in the product and will play it in a more challenging manner... will find all the secret rooms and all that the game has to offer.)

as i stated before, i have had enough of t3h hardc0rez looking down on the wii because not every game has a mature rating. yes, nintendo appeals more to casuals. that does not mean you can't find a "hardcore" experience on the wii or ds. it's true that the PSP has a higher percentage of core games than the DS, but when you take a good look at each handheld's library, you notice that the DS has a much higher quantity of core games.

I'm not here to bash the PSP, i own one myself and think it is a fine machine. however, you are sorely mistaken if you think you can find a greater number of core games on it.

to get back on topic, the DS's appeal to women is not the only reason the DS is winning. there is also the matter of better software, better price, battery life, and the abundance of piracy on the PSP. no one factor can attribute to one consoles success.

Exactly!

S.T.A.G.E. said:
The PSP doesn't majorly appeal to women. As I said, core gamers are few and dominantly male, but there are core female players. The DS majorly appeals to women of a wide variety of gages. Nothing I said was sexist. Nintendo isn't sexist either. There is a reason more females play Nintendo games than Playstation and Nintendo delivers more casual quality on the DS and especially the Wii. How many times i've been in a store and seem women clawing for Wii fit? I cannot even count.

The sexist part is when you claim that the DS caters to women because it's "casual".  There are plenty of "casual" male players.  I used quotation marks because your definition of casual and [hard]core seem immature as underlined above.  As others have pointed out, the DS has many more core games than the PSP.  The Wii Fit example is invalid as it isn't even on the DS.  And you keep ignoring my question: why were the PS1 and PS2 so successful?  Because the consoles were uber casual and appealed mainly to women?  Read the green text for the real answer.  Most important: software.