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MrMafoo on 08 January 2008
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Onimusha12 said:
MrMafoo said:

With this logic, Sony and MS should never release another home console. The Wii will outsell them both, so because you can't compete sales wise when you push the technology envelop, you should stop doing it.

What the PSP is, is exactly what I wanted in a handheld. Just becuse we are the minority does not mean there is no market for it. The PSP is not a failure, and the PSP2 won't be either. You don't have to be #1 to be a success.


Look at the PSP's software sales and tell me its a success. The PSP may not be losing money (suppossedly), but ask yourself, is that what Sony wanted the PSP to be? A mediocre portable multi-media novelty that treads water in the market or did they want a device that would spring board the success of their propriotary portable format UMD for video and movies and dominate the handheld gaming market usurping Nintendo from its second throne? The PSP has achieved nothing of what Sony originally intended it for, can you really call that a success? I suppose you can, but only if you lower your standard for what can be considered a success.

I don’t care what Sony wanted, I care what I want. The PSP is what I want. I am a working professional that can afford any toy I want within reason (If I want to spend 300 bucks on something, I just do it). I don’t own a DS, and it’s not because I care if it’s better than the PSP or not. I have no restrictions on me that keep me from owning both. The DS offers nothing I want. It’s a great system if you are in the market for what the DS provides.

It’s funny, you have these threads on here that say “What’s your favorite game of 2007” and when you read them, you seen 100 different answers, and all of them are right. People have different desires when it comes to gamming, and there is not one game that can make everyone happy. Why do people think there needs to be (or can be) one system that makes everyone happy?

P.S. Sony will turn a profit on the PSP, and being the gaming industry as a whole is growing, will stand to make a bigger profit the next time around. They will make a PSP2.