| torok said: It's ridiculous to assume that people didn't knew what it was because of the name. Usually, people try to use that as an excuse for the Wii U too. Ok, parents can make this confusion, but parents don't decide anything. Their kids will explain what they have to buy and they will get it. Adult gamers are smart enough to figure it out by themselves. Lack of software is more serious, but it PS4 managed to sell well with that. They cut the price, it started to sell more. It's quite simple. Also mind that while PSP did decent numbers, it was pretty much onslaughted by the cheaper DS. The PSP also wasn't more expensive than a PS3 or 360. The PSP also was a multimedia machine in an age before smartphones and targeted teenagers and adults, that usually have deeper pockets. A lot of the features that made PSP popular are done better by smartphones. Vita is pretty much a beefed-up PSP. Ok, it has expensive memory cards, but that's a one time buy that costs around the price of a single game. Smartphones stole this segment. The one that remains is the same that the DS explored: kids and people after a cheap and good gaming experience on the go. They were cheap entries to play Nintendo games. I don't think people will pay 250 bucks for it and that's pretty much the point with the Wii U. |
Except people didn't know 3DS and Wii U were new platforms, consumers thought 3DS was a new model DS with a 3D screen even kids thought this, this is one main reason Nintendo dropped the focus on the 3D and started marketing it as a new platform. 3DS didn't even sell that much different when the price cut happened look it up, it had a two week spike then sales went back to the usual level, you know what triggered sales it was the release of software, 3D Land, MK7, KH3D, MGS3D, Kid Icarus and Monster Hunter 3U all released with in a month or so of each other and more releases came after. People cite the price as a problem when it was never price it was consumer confusion and the drought.
PSP for the first year went full on blow for blow with the DS in fact in the west it was outselling it at certain points, DS went on to slaughter PSP not because of price but because it was the better platform and had much more consistent support while Sony handled PSP poorly.
