| RolStoppable said: No, Carl. Now you just want to convince yourself that the PSV isn't in big trouble. While you can say that price wasn't the 3DS's main problem, it was a significant problem nonetheless. Nintendo launched the 3DS later than planned. They actually wanted to get the thing out before the end of 2010, at the very least in Japan, but probably also in America. They had to delay it, because they couldn't produce enough units in time (although as we know in hindsight, they wouldn't have needed that many units to begin with). I am quite sure the PSP had a base package everywhere in the world, selling for $200. This was during the peak of the PlayStation brand, so Sony had an easier time to get away with charging a high price. Regardless, the PSP's sales in the first couple of years weren't all that impressive which is why the price needed to be cut despite original GTA, MGS and FF titles on the system. And you know that GTA was the biggest thing back then, released in October or November 2005. Big games alone couldn't do the job, the price was still too high for more widespread success, so I don't see how big games alone could do the trick for the PSV. |
I wouldn't care if the PSV was in trouble, honestly. I've never cared for a PSP and there's currently nothing on the PSV that's making me want to go out and buy one. I'm more arguing against how people seem to think a pricecut can solve everything. Anyway more to your point - The PSV isn't in big trouble quite yet as it's launched in one market. When it's launched Worldwide and it's selling sub-100k Weekly, then you can tell me it's in trouble.
I don't buy it that Nintendo wanted to release in 2010, or that they didn't because of supply. Would make no sense at all to release it then. The DS was still going really strong and games releasing on the thing would've been non-existant for Months at a time... Imagine how the 3DS was doing before the pricecut, but imagine it twice as bad. Terrible strategy.
The PSP sold over 20 Million units in the first 2 Years on sale, didn't it? Correct me if Im wrong, not looked it up. I'm pretty sure the PSP's first 2 Years were better than the PS3 and 360's first 2 Years on sale anyway. More than 20 Million units in 2 Years? That's not bad Rol, I'd say it's pretty damn good. As we know, it didn't do as well as the DS (30M?) did but it's still very good.
