Well what do you want him to say? "The best is long behind us"?
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
joeorc said:
so let me get this straight, you think just because Sony will release the PSP 2 or what ever they would dump the support for the PSP? that is quite funny, because how would the PSP 2 differ in it's software distribution than not connecting to PSN and not download software? unless you think those developer's are no longer, going to make the new PSP software to be incompatable with old PSP's which I would doubt very much. It would make no sense to do that what so ever! Even if sony released a New PSP the software that's released would still work on the old PSP, why because there is over 50 million PSP user's, if your a developer you want the greatest chance to sell software. just because the PSP is not first and most likely never will . Nintendo has that market pretty Solid and has been 1st pretty much ever since they made Handheld's, does not mean other's cannot be a Success in the same market. the mere fact that Sony has been able to sell that many handheld's in the MARKET is sure fire a Success, and yea you can alway's strive to be better but Nintendo has quite a lead on any new handheld that come's along into the Market. |
So you think some ports and backwards compatable titles are the best that the PSP has offered? The article said best yet to come?
Will Sony and third parties continue to support PSP after the next PSP is launched? Their is a possibility that their will be a few titles released for about a year. Downloadable titles might continue to be made by Indie studios and smaller niche studios. However the support that the PSP has today will disapear if not all support all together.
I will give a perfect example. The GameBoy:Advance. The consone had the controlling market share , millions upon millions in hardware reveniew and the largest market share in the handheld market. The DS was announced and Nintendo stated the GBA would continue to be supported and urged gamers that the GBA was not dead. The DS featured full backwards compatability so developer's could continue developing GBA games and even DS owners could continue playing them. Yet only about a year after DS's release the GBA was almost dead and after two years it was buried.
If the GBA with a far greater marketshare , a massive software support. Millions of software units sold compared to the PSP. If that console could not be supported after the introduction of the DS how do you figure PSP will.
Keep in mind while you say that PSP has a 50-million unit fanbase and that developers won't ignore that. The attach rate is what 1.5 games per system sold. No I don't know the exact attach rate but I do know that their is barely any million sellers. Infact even Sony's biggest franchises like Little Big Planet, KillZone, Resistance and third party heavy hitters like GTA:ChinaTownWars all fail to break the million mark. While the GBA had tons of million sellers.
Software on the PSP currently does not sell, why would third party developers or even first party developers maintain support for a dead platform? Once the next PSP comes out expect the current one to be finished and buried within a year. So as I said if the best is still to come he is either refering to one final swan song push of PSP or he's refering to the successor to the PSP!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
Metallicube said:
Where did he say sales = quality? |
He saying the games/console but not be very good because all he sees is the hardware and software sales going down and down.
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