| FishyJoe said: Most people own the DS lite, which wasn't even available until mid-2006. That's when the DS really took off. So the average time of ownership of DS is probably a lot less than the PSP. In addition, the tie ratio doesn't account for people who used GBA games. While not a factor now, early in its life people used the DS to play those games. |
Actually , in the first year the PSP barely managed to ship over 20 million software , and today it stands over 100 ... so no . The explanation that " the beginning was OK " isnt a good one . The issue is that in Japan the attach ratio is ~ 2:1 , and that brings the total worldwide ratio to a little over 3:1 while the DS a little over 5:1 . Also , the DS has ~ 2x as many units out so yeah gamesales are far higher .
DS lifetime software shipment , in their latest earnings release , was at 370 million . 370/3.3 = ~ 110 million ... so yeah , my calculation is pretty correct ( Sony stated in January that they shipped over 100 million PSP games ) .
So in fact it seams that even if software sales are obvioulsy lower the sales are still pretty good , and with growing hardware numbers and software sales we could see a lifetime software sales of even ~ 250 million UMD games :) Not bad for a first trial :)
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