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JSF on 07 June 2007
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your mother said:
VonShigsy said:
your mother said:
konnichiwa said:
Christopher_G2 said:
JSF said:

Since you're a stats-lover, have you ever wondered how many DS'es the average DS owner owns, what with the model change and the constant color additions (and then there are also the limited editions)? Is number of units sold more important than number of unique DS users? What do you think the average number of PSP's per PSP owner is? And how do you think the number of unique DS owners compares to the number of unique PSP owners?

 

Well I know the DS sells more games per unit hardware sold than the PSP. That should be the most telling stat at all. The PSP was supposed to be the hardcore gamer's handheld, yet DS owners are buying more games.


True but how many are not downloading weekly a game on their PSP it is incridible my brother have more than 50 illegal games on his PSP.

That is nothing: The sysadmin at the office where I work has a hard drive replete with 900 - count 'em - 900 DS titles that he drags-and-drops to his DS at will!

 


But you still have to buy the flash cart for the DS. PsP is easier to bootleg games.

I'm not too sure of that.

A guy at the office has had his PSP for ages before he bought a DS, and during all that time he never bothered to figure out how to bootleg his PSP, because he found it a tad hard and inconvenient to follow for the very first time. Yeah, he did finally get around to it though.

He bought his DS with the flash cart included, and it was a matter of literally dragging and dropping files from his PC to his DS.

Ergo, PSP may be "cheaper" to bootleg games as it does not require additional hardware, but the DS is more "user-friendly" to bootleg.

 


 The userfriendliness of bootlegging PSP versus DS is not the most important factor.  It is the demographic.  
I'd say the PSP has a core group of males between the ages of 16 and 35.  I'd also say the typical "hacker" peer-to-peer (no moral dilemma with taking digital content without paying - generation Napster) sort of user is well within this range.  DS having a wider sort of demographic, you aren't going to find too many elementary school kids and their soccer moms hacking their DS'es, nor are grandpa and
grandma.

I don't want to sound sexist, but what I'm about to say is true.  Females like the DS more.  Males, in 
general, love visual stimulation.  Females will trade it off for cutesy-wutesy cuddly-wuddly.  So females choose DS in much greater numbers.  How's that important to pirating?  Well, I don't 
have the research or numbers, but I'm willing to bet males are more likely to hack around with gadgets than females.