Possible 3DS killer up Sony's sleve??

[mai]

snfr said:

mai said:

1) Sony didn't establish itself in portable space well enough to support even a barely successful and primarily gaming platform in long-time perspective without help of 3rd parties. The strongest brand they have is Gran Turismo, and it seems to me that GT game on PSP2 won't help it that much, since GT did nothing for PSP sales last year. So it's even questionable if they're capable of carving a niche for PSP2 based solely on 1st party offerings (at least if PSP2 will share it's predecessor overall concept, they clearly need some new ideas and software).

2) He's right. The only 1st party game that has a shot at selling massive 10M on PS3 is GT5, was it released? I assume no. And GTA4, MW1 and MW2 with combined sales of over 20M, I guess, did nothing to drive PS3 sales?

1. Well, has there ever been a non-Nintendo handheld that sold as much as the PSP? No, definitly not. So I think they've established themselves well, although it could be much better, I know.

First, by 'established' I meant strong 1st party support of handheld that could make it relevant enough compared to Nintendo while not relying on 3rd party titles. For example, best-selling 1st party PSP game was Daxter with 3.5M in sales, for comparison Nintendo published 17 games with sales 3.5M and over on DS. PSP was heavily supported by 3rd parties in 2004-2006 (including successful GTA titles) while DS was ignored, even in latter years when DS took the lead PSP got a lot of scaled-down ports and sports titles. Without all these PSP would have been long dead.

//Second, just answering your question, Game Gear came as close to original Game Boy as possible. At the time it vanished into obscurity it held 20-25% of hardware market. History revisionists often ignore the fact how successful Game Gear was, I guess, 15 years later the same will happen to PSP.