kber81 said:
BTW this is first Sony's incarnation on the handheld market and it's more successful than original GB - it means something. 2006 was much better than it's predecessor. This year will keep this positive trend too. |
To say it's more successful then the original GB is a huge misconception. Week for week comparisons it is higher by a tiny percentage. But the GB success did not come in this point in it's life. If you look at it on a chart the things sales kept going up year after year, until 9 years in pokemon hits the pocket edition hits and its selling hundreds of thousands of units, hitting crazy numbers a decade after it launches. So it's success is not at all based on its moderate early years on the market, so to say the psp is more successful is to assume it too will have some insane uprising of sales seven years from now. And I don't think anyone sees that happening. The best the psp can hope to sell is 40% of the original gb userbase. Maybe it can possibly hit 50% of it. 50% would equal 57.5 million units.
2006 wasn't better either at least for unit sales in Japan. Take a look:
- 2005: 2.2 million units sold
- 2006: 1.9 milllion units sold
As for the DS for the sake of comparison:
- 2005: 4.2 million units sold
- 2006: 8.4 million units sold
Although with that said based on the already 740,000 sold this year I'd be surprised if it doesn't do better in Japan in 2007. And actually 1.9 million isn't too bad being that it's competition doubled in sales you'd think they'd have taken a bigger hit then that.
