gamings_best said:
jarrod said:
gamings_best said:
jarrod said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
jarrod said:
Competitive games and a competitive pricepoint. That's going to be a tall order given what we know of 3DS and what we've heard of PSP2...
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how is it a tall order when we already know 3DS is going to be expensive and all the games on 3DS are the typical for a Playstation platform and would be easily ported and plus new games
and we haven't heard anything about the price and game about the PSP2
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It's going to be difficult for PSP to compete on price based on the rumors we've heard (HD screen, 360 spec, etc)... we're also at a stage where the razor/blades model has proven itself pretty ineffectual long term, and for a PSP platform, recent precedent makes not making profit on hardware even a less attractive proposition. I think we'll see a $50 difference (in favor of Nintendo) probably, which was exactly the price difference between DS and PSP at launch.
For games, I doubt we'll see many 3DS ports. I do expect some 360/PS3 ports though, which is probably a better way for Sony to go, as challenging Nintendo on their own turf is practically suicide these days. But again, I'm not sure that's exactly competitive... 3DS is amassing a lineup already that's like the best of DS and PSP on one machine, that doesn't leave a lot of room for PSP2.
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Why? is the question I think most people that are optimistic about psp2 are asking. The VAST majority of 3ds games announced are games that are always on a playstation paltforms, why would that suddenly change for the psp????
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Because those games generally floundered on PSP1. And the reason PSP1 got those sorts of games was due to the PlayStation brand, which 5-6 years ago was considered infallible, plus it was generally assumed that PSP was set to take over the handheld market by literally everyone in the industry. Things worked out differently and today Sony finds themselves in a much weaker position than they were back then... it's fine with being optimistic, but I'd rather be realistic. Gamesbeing on PSP2 due to those brands "are always on a PlayStation" is dated thinking at best... it's not the mid 2000s anymore.
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but some of those games came recently in the psp life, and piracy murdered psp software sales, what's to say the psp2 won't be as protected as the ps3 is.
it's just the cock sure attitude that psp2 will with out a doubt have a harder time that's the problem, I mean this gen more than ever should have taught people to be more optimistic because anything can happen.
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Cock sure or not, PSP2 WILL have a harder time than PSP1 in garnering industry support (developers, publishers, press, retailers, analysts, etc). And the reason for that is how PSP1 performed, versus how it was assumed it'd perform. Again, realism trumps optimism.
The other thing is, that 3DS already getting the sorts of games usually reserved for PS systems from the Japanese studios casts some serious doubt on PSP2 then also garnering those same brands from those same teams, due to the traditional nature of Japan's development culture. Sure, they're getting more crossplatform and multiplatform as time goes on, but they generally don't port afterwards (at least from the market leader) and they generally try to converge around one system. And from the looks of it so far, 3DS is what they've chosen... as soon as MH gets announced, it's over completely.
PSP2's best chance lies in the west imo...
