jarrod said:
A different audience? What audience is that exactly? It's not meant to target the young, male, tech savvy, hardcore, Monster Hunting demographic? (the ones that already own a PSP? You think Sony would make a device aimed at primarily at selling to the same consumers?) Y'know, the one that buys 50% of the games they want in the first day or two?
Your revisionist take is cute, recasting the Go as a wider reaching luxury alternative, but that pretty clearly wasn't the intent here (oh? do tell). This isn't something that will broach new demographics, it's aimed squarely at the gamer core. And they seem to not really give a shit, hence the embarrassing 19% sell-through figure day one. (embarrassing compared to... what? The DS 2, otherwise known as the DSi? It has about the same hardware difference, compared to the DS, as the Wii does to the GameCube... is the Wii actually the "GameCube 1.5"?)
DSi LL is a much different beast, aimed at a specific demographic subset, not the core audience, and one that is notorious for buying incrementally over the long term rather than upfront. Maybe we should just compare DSL or GB micro, since those platforms seems to hit closer to your wandering goalposts and actually have figures for comparison? I'd also be careful of bringing in "logic" when you're staking the claim that any degree of failure is inherently impossible...
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