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Ljink96 on 19 May 2014
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artur-fernand said:
Ljink96 said:
you know, what made the PSP a decent rival for DS was the fact that it had games that the DS obviously couldn't handle and games that gamers wanted. This is what kept it alive so long and why it is outselling the DS till this day(In the weekly sales charts that is). What's interesting about this generation is that the 3DS can do a lot more that the DS and it has pretty games that gamers want. It was cheaper, it has cartridges that you can't lose as often, and it had a better name. What is a darn vita? If the Vita is to make a huge comeback, it needs time on its side along with people who are willing to put up with it in order to make it a success. And a Dragon Quest game or two wouldn't hurt but really who'd put AAA games on a console that's been out for 3 years and sold 8 million units? And people say the Wii U is terrible. ANYWAY, that's not why I'm here. I hope the Vita can survive the 3DS long enough that it outsmarts the 3DS the same way PSP outsmarted the DS.


Piracy actually played a huge role on the PSP's sales. For one thing, nobody liked the damn UMD's. And the PSP was a powerful emulator - it could run pretty much ever single console from the Atari 2600 to the 16-bit era, even arcade games. Plus the PS1 games. For a console with a 80 million installed base, it didn't have a third-party support that strong.

True, this is one reason why I bought one. Nintendo has always been the strictest when it comes to pirating and they've been quite efficient at it. The 3rd party support came in around the end of 2011 when the DS had its final say with games like DQIX and Mario & Luigi: Bowers Inside Story. It's like these random games come out on PSP now and sell really well. It really is a marathon runner while the DS was a sprinter.