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happydolphin on 16 February 2012
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RolStoppable said:
happydolphin said:
maverick40 said:

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.

The thing the PSP did manage to take from the DS was more 3rd party AAA effort and core big-name games. With that, marketshare was yanked from under the DS' feet, but it wasn't really absorbed by the PSP in return, as SW sales would show. There are exceptions, but in general it's more 3rd party effort that was stolen than marketshare (when looking at it from a SW point of view).

Wrong. The DS couldn't run this games due to its lack of processing power, so the PSP took those development dollars from some other platform. That would be the PS3, the supposed successor of the PS2. The PSP cannibalized the PS3 in Japan.

Funny, cause now those games are being released on the 3DS.

I didn't realize you needed to have the best processing power to have the best games, I thought you only needed the best market share.

Oddly enough though, for certain titles that do need good graphics, the 3DS now has the power to run them too. So is the 3DS cannibalizing the PS3? or the PSP? Then is the 3DS now stealing Sony marketshare? (this is rhetorical)