Faxanadu said:
hunter_alien said:
weezy said:
Faxanadu said:
Funny.
Sony has to choices here.
PSP as gaming machine - it gets beaten by Nintendo and DS badly
PSP as media player - it gets utterly abused by Apple and the iPod. Not even funny.
So Sony, which do you want to be? A good second place finish or a laughingstock? Your choice. |
Seriously, Nintendo and Apple are laughing at Sony.
Sony is like that sad dude who thinks he gots it going on in public ,but goes home crying, curled up in the fetal position.(when it comes to handhelds)
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You know , its actually funny that you are talking again without knowing no straight facts :
The Ipod managed to sell l~ 11 million units in 3 years , while the PSP passed the 30 million mark . So where are you actually getting your numbers from ? I see that Sony actually managed to sell 6 times as many PSPs as Apple managed to sell Ipods . (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ipod_sales_2008_Q1.svg )
And as a gaming device , like it or not it is the first one that ever managed to get a significant market % from Nintendo , even now heaving almost 1/3 of the entire market ...
So yeas , the PSP went on a different rute , managing to somehow have a different market than the core market of the DS or Ipod , and thats how they managed to ship over 36 million units to date .
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Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Please learn how to read statistical data correctly.
The Ipod sold 11 million LAST QUARTER ALONE. The quarter before that, it sold 24 million IN ONE QUARTER.
It has to this date sold a minimum of 150 million units, just by roughly adding up the data that is per quarter.
so.....
35 million vs. 150 million? or 35 million vs. 66 million?
You decide.
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Yes , I know that lately the Ipod has seen amazing sales . But look at how it all started . Why couldent the PSP experience similar sales explosion ( I doubt it would , but it could reach impressive numbers if they do something similar to the Itunes store and get their act together ) . I dont know if you remember , but back in 01 when the Ipod was announced , and even afther its launch many have cleraly stated that it could become a failure to Apple . True , now it holds in the US ~75% of all mp3 players market , but this wasnt allways like this ;)
Also , saying 35 vs. 150 is not correct neither , mainly because the Ipod had exactly 2x as much time on the market thanthe PSP ;)
