Why is the PSP lowering in the US and Others and rising in Japan?

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Words Of Wisdom said:

hunter_alien said:
Japan is a much-more handheld-oriented region than the US and EU . The DS reached its saturation point , so its obvious that the next system they will move onto will be another , different handheld .

I love that comment.

So once the NDS has dominated the entire market and has completely run out of potential buyers, then the PSP will become a great success. The iron-y levels in that comment could kill a small kitten (as could my horrible pun).

 It makes some sense.  When I was a kid I got 1 big present a year and a bunch of small ones.  1 year it might be SNES, a bike the next, and Sega G the next.  I didn't stop playing the SNES but I was going to get a big present and so why not get a Sega when I knew there were a few games on it that I wanted to play?

It is often the way things work with consoles.  If handhelds are so popular in Japan, people that got the DS first may be getting a PSP now.  It doesn't mean they stop supporting the DS, though.  So if by move onto hunter_alien just meant buy, I agree with him.