Words Of Wisdom said:
ChronotriggerJM said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
tk1989 said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
tk1989 said:
The problem with the PS3 and PSP is that they are "multimedia machines", not consoles.
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No, the problem is they aren't selling as well as their competitors.
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Yeah, and because they dont have amazing games either. One of the reasons why they dont ahve amazing games? becuase not everyone that buys them buys them for games... This is one of the reasons for the PSP. The PSP has sold over 27 million, but it doesnt sell that many games, and this could be due to the fact that theyre not being bought just for their gaming features, but also their multimedia ones. |
If they are being bought for their multimedia features, then their poor sales (by comparison to the DS) are clearly telling Sony that the market doesn't give @#$& about multimedia features.
If they are being bought for both, then the market is clearly sending the message that the DS's gaming features alone are better than the PSP's entire package. |
Apples iPod dissagrees with your statement. If you ask me that there's nothing "wrong" with the SONY psp, it just does too many things that other products already do. The DS is different, it's an innovative look at the casual market, LOADED with games (not necesarilly good mind you) that you can pick-up and fiddle with for 5 mins to 3 hours. Nintendo targeted CASUAL audiences, smaller games, almost no load times, creative uses for the stylus. Sony targeted people like me who wanted a jack of all trades and a more "hard core" audience, they ASSUMED that since the PS2 took off like a bat out of hell, that the casual market must be the same. "Oops", is what I'd say. However, many justified the original Xbox as Microsofts "foot in the door", if the PSP is Sony's entry into the handheld market then I'll assume they got more than half there body in. Calling the PSP a failure is a commonly used disaster of a mistake, the PSP continues to make money and continues to sell hardware. Who cares if it's not as much as the DS? |
I have not used the word failure. I am saying the market isn't responding as well to Sony's offering as Nintendo's which is blatantly obvious. Neither the PSP's multimedia functionality nor its gaming functionality is a match for the DS in today's market. |
I'm not sure I would have gone with the term "Nobody gives a @#$%", when I think of that phrase, I think of the Zune vs. the iPod, the Philips CD-I vs EVERTHING. Obviously people ARE interested, it's still selling, it's just not selling AS WELL as the DS, which is a good thing for Nintendo, not necesarrily a bad thing for SONY seeing as how they're still making money and still selling units.
This isn't a necessity for SONY, this is just another market to make money in, and as long as their doing that their fine, as far as I know they haven't lost any 3rd party support, so obviously people still want to make games for it :P I don't see a problem.
Now I'll agree with Fishy that most of the money comes from software, and in this case they would like the PS2 and PSP to support the losses, but the PS3 won't be losing money forever, I don't know how SONY pulls there crap off but they've been in the hardware business for a long time, I have a feeling they'll be ok.
