nordlead on 02 December 2009
| superchunk said: That would be stupid. There's a reason Nintendo hasn't put Gameboy era titles on VC and has distinctly different download options between DSi and Wii. You don't want to make your products obsolete. You want that Wii owner to go buy a DSi. Just as Sony should want PS3 owners to go buy PSPs. |
actually, it doesn't seem like a bad business move for Sony. It instantly increases the potential purchasing base for PSP by 27m at no cost to publishers. Also, the PSP doesn't appear to sell very many games to start off with so people are buying the PSP for music/video/pirating (take your pick) so the ability to purcahse games on the PS3 may not hurt PSP hardware sales. In the end if PSP hardware sales aren't hurt badly, then it is a net profit for them.
However, generally I would agree that it would be a bad business move.
