| Darth Tigris said: What does he mean by fail? For Sony or for 3rd party game publishers? For Sony, no way was it a failure. 65 million with your initial dip in a market? No way. For 3rd party game publishers? Not sure. I don't remember a lot of games blowing up any charts outside of Japan considering how large its userbase was. I'd have to dig more (or better yet yield to those that have already done the research), but that's the only area where I could see some calling the PSP a failure. |
The software sales were okay for many titles but piracy definately ate into the potential sales and when the system saw a drop in interest in the West sales did drop there. Again though, for a first handheld they were certainly good enough.
From what was announced Sony are going to be putting a decent effort behind SW with the NGP and are clearly going to leverage key franchises early - something they failed miserably with the PS3 which hurt the console badly in the first 18 months IMHO.
With the NGP they need to find a nice balance of PSN / arcade titles, portable centric titles plus the blockbuster stuff we've seen so far like Uncharted, CoD, etc.
Really, what's funny is despite all the doom pretty much everything in the last 5 years has actually sold pretty well all things considered, DS, PSP, Wii, 360 and PS3. Quite amazing compared to previous generations.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
