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Darc Requiem on 05 November 2010
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Solid_Snake4RD said:
Darc Requiem said:

What the PSP2 needs is for Nintendo to make a huge blunder. Anything besides that won't have any effect.

how does that make sense?

PSP has a comfortable installbase even after piracy took the games away

dtewi said:

Nothing. The 3DS has already won.


now if SONY make a CES announcement before 3DS february release,that would be amazing

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...


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

Simple. The PSP launched with the type of developer support that the 3DS has. The DS didn't have the huge third party backing initially. It was similar to the WIi, with the difference being that third parties started backing the DS after it sold better than their expectations. The PSP2 won't have that luxury. The hype is behind the 3DS as is the massive amounts of third party support. The 3DS's third party support is likely to cause a significant part of the PSP1 userbase to choose the 3DS. When you combine that with Nintendo's games it's an endgame proposition barring a Nintendo blunder.

For a change in a market leader to occur in gaming it requires a few things to occur. Having a great piece of hardware is only part of the equation. Having the current market leader make a grave error is the most important. A blunder by the market leader gives competing platforms an opening to take over. Poor software quality and turning down Nintendo's request to handle the US operations of the NES were two mistakes by Atari that gave Nintendo their shot. Nintendo's "Dream Team" of developers and choosing of the cartridge format combined with Sega's blunders with the 32X, Sega CD, and Saturn gave Sony it's opening for the PS1. The PS3's exceedingly high price left the door open for this gen.