May NPD shows sales surge for PSP while all others decline

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sharky said:

PSP is pretty succesful. It's just everybody wants to compare it to DS. But leave DS out, it's pretty succesful.

 

I also think it will have better legs than DS. There's a lot you can in multi-media terms with such a gorgeous screen as your centerpiece. PSP will only grow as it trends toward $99.

 

Then again I hear the D-pad is broken, which would make my prime reason for wanting one, 2-D fighters, null..

 

But I mean just as a cool portable screen, leave games out altogether, it has a lot of potential.

Better legs than the DS? Wow. We're three years in to the lifecycle -- three years -- and the DS is selling better now than it was two years ago. In fact, two years ago, there were a few points where the PSP was outselling the DS on a weekly basis: now the DS is outselling the PSP 2.5:1, and has been doing so for months on end.

Again, for emphasis: we're three years into this handheld generation. The launch window is closed, and the competitors have long since left the gate. If there was ever a time when "legs" are supposed to be important, that time is right now, and the DS is still pulling farther and farther ahead.

Link for evidence:

http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PSP&reg1=All&cons2=DS&reg2=All&cons3=PSP&reg3=All&weekly=1

As recently as February of last year, the PSP was selling more systems in a week than the DS. The systems were neck and neck for some time, and then the DS pulled away and never looked back. It's the DS that has shown legs, not the PSP.