I remember working at a Best Buy store in 2005 around when the first PSP launched. I took our demo model around the store on a few occasions and showed it to people. Even though myself and others were impressed with it as a device, very few people seemed willing to fork out the money for a limited range of launch titles and overpriced, proprietary movies.
Once again I am impressed with it as a device, but I wonder if Sony isn't repeating some of the same mistakes they made with the PSP and PS3. Great hardware doesn't mean shit unless it has mass appeal. Having handheld versions of console games aren't inherently bad, but in pushing these games (killzone, uncharted, hot shots golf, etc) they are selling to the people who are already fans.
Still, predicting how hardware will perform pre-launch is incredibly hard, as evidenced by the current console generation. We are simply speculating on past events. Still, given the rise of Apple and others in the handheld space, this is not a two horse race. Sony will have to contend with much fiercer competition than they did in 2005.
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