| thekitchensink said: When the DS game had been out for the length that the PSP game has, it had sold roughly twice as many units. So, anyone claiming that these sales are low (which they aren't) and that it's the DS's fault is a fanboy. |
God's honest truth right there. Speak it sink. Speak it.
Even if its not the target market for such games, it still outsells the PSP with software. That might mean the PSP has a higher proportion of core gamers, but it doesn't mean that the PSP has MORE core gamers. In fact, it almost assuredly has much much less. The DS probably has more "core" gamers than the PSP has units sold, simply because of the vast difference in the install base.
It's very hard, and shall continue to be very hard for a company that isn't innovative with its hardware, to compete with Nintendo in the handheld market, core or otherwise. There is NOTHING wrong with Nintendo's core market on its handheld system, and any attempts to try to stigmatize the DS as a casual console just because of some ignorant Wii comparison, shows a general lack of understanding about gaming itself.
The PSP is not the PS3 of handhelds, and the DS is not the Wii of handhelds. They are not comparable, and the shallow similarities only serve to mask the vast differences in market segments to the uninformed. Claiming that the DS is a casual only console is ignorance in its most concentrated form, and sales aside, the core DS library is phenominal, which isn't really debatable. List wars on that front would be one sided.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
