| Silver-Tiger said: Guys, most of the comments on this thread are rather funny. You think if the PSP2 is download-only, it will fail miserably? This must also be the reason why the iPhone failed so miserably... oh wait.... PSP Go failed because it was an overpriced, bad-supported, ugly piece of Sh.., that's why it failed. |
It's not the system that was overpriced but games as well.
iPhone is vastly different business-model, that accounts for ~$300-500M last year and growing revenue in gaming (numbers differ depending on the source you choose to believe) versus ~1,3B last year made on PSP and decreasing. If they are to follow iPhone model it's gonna be a drastic change that will not only force them to rethink their target demography, but first of all will result in decreased revenue with all consequences for Sony such as deceased royalties from game sales, so they need to make profitable from day one hardware, since currently they aren't in the situation when they could handle big loses. Though scenario not out of possiblity imo, it seems in current situation PSP got nothing to lose.
