Is the Playstation Portable doomed?

[Lord N]

Gballzack said:

God, not another one...

1. His point was poorly delivered and your summation of it seems to imply you didn't even bother reading beyond my reply.

2. Since he made the positive claim, burden of proof relied on him, not I. It was a simple request and if you can so easily provide the numbers I fail to see what was so outlandish to ask the same of him. Also, see point 3 for further illustration of why this is a moot point to begin with.

3. He said that the PSP had surpassed the sales of any Nintendo handheld that wasn't redone a million times, not all handhelds in general. You know, maybe you should try bother reading the post that the person was responding to before puting in your own two cents. And again I have to point out the pointlessness of comparing a handheld to consoles in a debate that is now comparing two handhelds in their bid for that market. The PSP isn't directly competing with consoles so comparing it to them is about as pertinent as comparing 360 sales to the sales of a JVC DVD player.

4. That's not the point, he was claiming the PSP was prefered by adults and the DS wasn't, I was arguing against this assumption. And you saying, "DUR, IS IT A SURPRISE MORE KIDS PLAY HANDHELDS?" is not only irrelevant to the debate but an asinine contribution to a discussion you obviously didn't bother reading beyond my reply.

5. Good for you, you're using your PSP for everything other than a direct UMD gaming system and saving battery life, if only we all used it was everything other than its primary purpose than we too could be free from the limits of battery life. Also, Sony saying its targeting an older demographic now? Oh well that obviously proves more adults prefer the PSP to the DS because Sony says so. You know Sony never spews underhanded self-serving shit like that ever. Sony also said the PS3 would dominate this generation so that obviously means that the PS3 is selling much better than the 360 and Wii right now eh?

 It is a wonder how I manage to stay toe to toe with someone so seasoned in debating, god... you're obviously a master at this. If only everyone would jump haphazardly into a debate without reading beyond the last post.

1. It wasn't poorly delivered. You're just the only one who didn't get it, which isn't surprising at this point.

 

2.  The information has already been provided. Deal with it.

 

3. I said that it has already sold more than any handheld that wasn't made by Nintendo. This has already been proven, and you haven't given anything to refute it, end of story. The 360 isn't a handheld, but the If the PSP has sold 20 million in two years and is doing poorly, then the same should apply to the 360, which hasn't even sold half of that in 1.5 years. You want to compare home systems to home systems? Fine. The 360 must being doing extremely poorly because it's being outsold by the Wii and has yet to outsell the seven-year-old PS2. That's right, it can't even outsell the predecessor to its competition even after 1.5 years. The PSP, on the other hand, is outselling the wildly popular predecessor to the DS, the GBA. Damn that failing 360!

 

4. I said that handhelds skew towards a younger audience, and there have already been plenty of examples given to reflect this. Perhaps it's you who should read the posts you reply to.

 

5. Microsoft also said that 10 million 360's were going to be sold by the time the PS3 and Wii launched, but it still has yet to reach that even now. But none of that is relevant. I think Sony knows which demographic they were targeting with the PSP. No points here, really.

 

Seriously, just give it up. If points are going over anyone's head, it's yours. The information you asked for was provided, your posts have been directly replied to and debunked, and yet you continue to post irrelevant arguments and inane rhetoric, and I'm not even going to bother reading anymore of it, much less replying to it.