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S.T.A.G.E. on 19 August 2013
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Licence said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Look at Nintendos third party support for the nearly twenty years on both of their items and tell me if I am wrong. The DS has had unreal third party support for a handheld that makes their console look like a desert. Sonys stamp on the gaming industry is unreal. Their lowest selling console is edging on 80 million consoles. This is their lowest selling console in their third generation. By black friday 2013 Sony will have outsold the original PSP with the PS3. If that doesn't tell you anything, I don't know what does.


There is one thing it does not tell me, which is also the question of this thread. *Why* is Sony so successful at home consoles when they are struggling with handhelds, and why would the PS4 continue this success?

Its not about what Sony is doing wrong, but rather what Nintendo is doing right. You see Nintendos handhelds are easily sold because of their mascot characters. Kids grew up loving the Gameboy with their platformers old school adventure games and more. Sony has a lot of characters but they are console worthy characters. Everything on the PSP that isn't made for the PSP feels like a down ported game on a less defined platform. Nintendo ushered in the mascot era durin the 80's and 90's where mascots and cartoons were commercially very large. Kids could bring these characters to school with them and they still are. Its just not as big as it once was though during the mascot era. 

Sony pushes tech and disc space, which allows devs to go crazy with development, which is why they left Nintendo. Also because they brought multimedia to gaming they increased the marketshare stability of the gaming industry.  Sony demands large third party support much like Microsoft. Nintendo creates consoles for themselves, but at least their handhelds are old tech which Japanese devs dont need to go through hell to figure out. 

Sony could make some mascot characters but they will have to become beloved by consumers. Most of their mascot characters are uninspired in looks even though the gameplay was amazing.