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Onimusha12 on 08 January 2008
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MrMafoo said:
Onimusha12 said:

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?


The argument presented for its success is based on what the DS is doing. If there was no DS, and the PSP sales at the end of its life were 50 million, would we be calling it a success? I say we would, even with the game sales.

Now the next time around Sony will do a lot of stuff better (like no UMD), but what the PSP does for Sony makes it worth keeping the brand.

It provides gaming to a market that if the PSP did not exist, would not have a device to fulfill its needs.

It, I believe, improved Sony’s image. It’s by far the higher tech device of all the handhelds, thus helping Sony sell itself to the world as the “more technically advanced company”

It sells PS3’s. Probably not many, but it at lease sells some of them.

It’s the first Handheld they have ever made. Nintendo has been making them for 20 years. I am sure a lot of the shortcoming will be resolved in the second go-round.

P.S. I only state that it’s what I like, because people seem to have the feeling that if the PSP were to just go away, I can get a DS and be happy. No. If the PSP goes away, I will have lost any handheld gaming device that fulfills my needs.

 


The PSP is doing poorly in software sales no matter how you slice it. Its attach rate is attrocious. DS or not, it would most likely still be facing this similar problem. You can't blame this on Nintendo as if they've raised the bar when the PSP fails to meet even the lowest of standards in software sales. And if your argument is indeed that the DS is preventing the PSP from being a true success then how in God's name do you plan on the PSP2 rectifying that situation?

I'm sorry the DS is not to your liking, I guess you, like many others will just end up a lapsed gamer at the end of this generation. You have my sympathy.