| Audiomatic said: Fanboys make me sick...nintendo fanboys are the worst.. This topic started as "what do you think about sonys decision of keeping two consoles out? " and turned out " NINTENDO RULEZZZ, SONY DOOMED" im dissapointed with the mods here, they shouldnt make their console prefferences known to the people. Their reason here is to place order to the forum not start a war. And its their fault that this topic which had potential turned to the usual shit. |
There are two ways to read the following data:
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 27th Nov 2004 to 26th Nov 2005:
| Console | PSP | DS | GBA |
Total | 6,770,755 | 9,346,377 | 11,494,744 |
America | 2,749,598 | 3,172,003 | 6,484,366 |
Japan | 2,182,069 | 3,749,711 | 1,583,733 |
Total Others | 1,839,088 | 2,424,663 | 3,426,645 |
- The PSP and Nintendo DS were surprisingly close in their first year
- Nintendo is the king of handhelds and crushed Sony
To make my point clearer ...
VGChartz Hardware data for the period 27th Nov 2004 to 25th Nov 2006:
| Console | PSP | DS | GBA |
Total | 16,297,654 | 29,527,275 | 17,990,502 |
America | 6,229,238 | 8,371,247 | 10,585,433 |
Japan | 4,302,670 | 12,565,156 | 2,150,810 |
Total Others | 5,765,746 | 8,590,872 | 5,254,259 |
The fact is that there is no 'magical' strategy by Sony which keeps their consoles alive after the generation has ended; people continue to buy the leading console (from the previous generation) because it is dirt cheap, has a massive library, and third party publishers continue to support it because there is still value in supporting hardware that is so widely available.
It is quite likely (with how software sells for it) that the PSP will see a rapid death if/when Sony or Nintendo releases another handheld; as publishers look for development teams to create games for the new handheld they're far more likely to pull them away from the PSP due to its (very) limited potential software sales.
