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naznatips said:


Well no, it's not doing horribly, but I think it should be pointed out that Nintendo could hardly care about the PSP entering the market since the DS is currently on track to being the best selling game system in history.  Also the "seperate market" argument that people like to use doesn't really work when the DS is getting games like Dragon Quest IX.

Again though, the PSP isn't doing HORRIBLE.  It's still not doing well at all.  It's not sold nearly enough games to be called a successful console and Sony is still in the red on it.  Still, it's a foothold in the handheld industry and they can continue in handheld games with their new user base.

On topic, it will never happen.  They don't care about the handheld market.  They have mentioned however in the past possibly porting some of their established franchises to the DS (Viva Pinata is the one I heard mentioned) in order to boost the sales of them and help decrease the user base of the PSP.

 

It's getting DQ9 because it's the most popular system in Japan, which is the only place DQ is popular. Nothing more, nothing less.

 The DS does have a broader appeal, but it still skews towards kids(or more specifically, parents who want something to shut their kids up in the car or in the grocery store or bank) whereas Sony marketed the PSP more towards an older audience. This isn't to say that everyone who owns a DS is a kid or that everyone who owns a PSP is a 21-year-old man, but you get the point. Besides, both Sony and Nintendo stated that the two handhelds weren't meant to compete with each other, so Sony probably doesn't care anymore about the DS than Nintendo does about the PSP.

The PSP doesn't have the highest software attach ratio in the world, and of course, Sony is probably still in the red with it, but they probably expected that anyway. The same could be said about the Xbox(especially that last statement. they lost over 4 billion dollars), but everyone considers that it did well.

Ultimately, it's up to Sony to decide whether or not it's successful, but considering that they've entered a market that has been dominated by one company for 15 years and managed to sell well over 20 million systems at this point in time, I don't see how they couldn't.