Stever89 on 27 April 2008
| Sky Render said: There's an enormous difference in how much use the PSP gets for non-gaming in Japan and how much use the DS gets. The DS actually has the edge over the PSP in that market, since it's easily understood and interacted with by new users, costs less than the PSP, and is more sturdy overall (which is really important for equipment being lent to tourists; you would not believe the damage people inflict on items they don't own, by accident and on purpose alike). |
That fact is interesting because the PSP is marketed as more than just a gaming device, with it's multimedia capabilities, yet the DS seems to be used in by more people as a non-gaming device (with perhaps a little Nintendogs or something on the side). What's also interesting is that the fact that some people buy the PSP as a non-gaming device seems to hurt software sales (plus piracy is a factor), yet software sales on the DS are pretty amazing.
