Nikkei Industry Rumor: "Devs canning Vita projects, moving to 3DS"

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maverick40 said:

sensebringer said:

maverick40 said:
Seriously guys, I have the vita and I played the 3ds. The 80 dollar difference between the consoles is totally justifiable. The 3ds isnt even in the same league when comes to presentation at all.

The Nintendo DS was not in the same league of the PSP and we all know how well that ended for the PSP.

It ended quite well for the psp actually. It stole an incredible amount of market share from Nintendo, who previously had a monopoly on the handheld market.

You're forgetting that the attach ratio for the PSP was really low for a core handheld:

17

PlayStation Portable (PSP)

4.90

2.99

3.51

3.33

3.73

Odds are, the PSP wasn't all that used for gaming, but many used it for music, movies, and loading up emulators via homebrew.

The DS had numbers not as high as the Wii or HD twins, but it was a handheld that sold almost 2.5 times the number of PSPs, and many of those sold to casual users.

14

Nintendo DS (DS)

6.26

3.41

5.30

5.58

5.03

 

What I'm trying to say is, PSP hardware did well, but SW, apart from GTA, Sony 1st party SW, FF:CC and MH, didn't do so so crazy.