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Onimusha12 on 08 January 2008
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MrMafoo said:
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.


Oh, oh really? Because last time I checked this thread was about whether there would be a PSP2 based on the PSP's success, not whether or not Mr.Mafoo was happy with the PSP.

This thread posed the question: "Would there be a PSP2 based on the PSP's performance?"

You responded: "Yes, because the PSP was a success!"

I countered: "No, the PSP was not a success for Sony as it achieved nothing they were hoping it would."

You responded: "Well I don't care what Sony wants, I care what I want!"

Do you not see the backwardness of your logic here? You don't decide if there will be a PSP2 so your opinion is not relevant to the question at hand here. The minority does not move the world if there is not enough of them and as far as PSP owners who buy games go, trust me, there aren't enough. Even if the PSP is making a profit, is it enough of a profit to warrant the trouble of managing it or devoting resources towards it? Is it really worth making a successor to a console with third party support reaching on par with the Wonderswan?

Do you want a PSP successor so badly you'll turn a blind eye to the truth or is there a gene in certain people that only allows them to digest certain facts?