Should Sony Abandon the PSP?, or You Can't Spell Ignorant without...

[dharh]

Cheebee said:

dharh said:
I don't really believe in the same failure/win crap the everyone else seems to believe in. The DS can't be a failure at this point, nor really can the PSP be a failure. I was merely saying that when comparing the PS2 vs the DS, one should look at what each type of game device the two things are. Of course the DS sells faster than the PS2 did, its a portable device. The question i'm asking is, is it selling as fast a portable device _could_ or is lacking something that would make it sell 3 times faster than the PS2. By my logic the PSP certainly isn't matching the potential curve.

Or to put it simply, everyone else is all goo goo impressed about DS sales, i'm not. I'm merely more interested in how its doing, how will it be doing in the future, will it have a 10 year life span, etc. Also we should keep a keen eye on the difference between the DS and the DSi, which imo are two different devices.

Hmm, well, people's opinions differ, I guess. If you're not impressed by DS sales, then that's fine, but I'm quite sure you're about the only person on earth who thinks so.

Of course there's a difference between handhelds and consoles, but the difference not THAT significant. Imo, when a machine's topping the sales charts week after week, month after month and year after year it's really irrelevant to question whether it *could* sell more. Of course it could, if people had more money to spend, if there were even more quality games for it, if there wasn't an economic crisis, if babies could play it, if developers would start making games for the thing exclusively... But those are all irrelevant and nonsensical.

Are you also unimpressed by PS2's sales? 'Cos you should be, you should ask the same questions about that one, yes it's sold fine, but what would have to happen for it to sell 3 times as much? Could it? Could it top 300 million? Come on.

It's just a difference in interest. I guess I _should_ be impressed, but im too busy being interested in the statistics. So i'm not really impressed by PS2 sales, rather i'm interested in the PS2 sales curves as it relates to other consoles. For instance the trend PS3 has compared to PS2 and how the Wii is significantly higher, the PS3 flagging behind, and the X360 is even worse. It's just a difference in interest.