True it does, sadly some who preach don't follow their own advice and think sony gives a crap about console wars to decide which choice they should make regarding their products. SO yea agreed.

I guess I've held out long enough. I'm getting a PSPGo. Can get it for 200$ and since that's with 3 games it sounds like a decent deal to me.

PSP now, given the circumstances, is doing fine.

But it's future looks bleak. If Sony truly have nothing planned for the PSP franchise over the next 12 months, it'll be massively down in Japan, 3DS is going to be the thing to have, DS will more than likely get a price cut, Sony will more than likely cut the PSP price too, but it won't be enough to offset the 3DS which is obviously gonna be massive there.

America? a price cut won't even sustain its sales above 15k a week there next year, it'll be near dead in America next year.

Europe, it's possible saviour, it seems to be doing well there atm and I think it has room to increase weekly there with a price cut. That said 3DS will more than likely launch March 2011?

japan its pretty packed actually. they have ff13 agito, 3rd birthday and monster hunter 3G. most likely

i dont know about america or europe but they dont alot of software considering psp was so easy to hack

I did'nt know selling well below your competion was selling just fine. The psp is dying,plain and simple. Look at the sales numbers. You can spin it anyway you want,but this is fact.

Sorry, Sony, but the PSP really doesn't have much life left in it. I don't think too many people would try to argue that the PS2 isn't a dying system in today's market. Everywhere outside Japan, the PSP can't even reach a 2:1 margin consistantly over the PS2. And while Japan this past week still had a ratio greater than 20:1, the market there is small enough as to not even pull the worldwide rate to 3:1. To make things simple, here's the ratios for week ending 8/14:

World: 83,589 / 32,135 (2.60)
Americas: 19,101 / 10,807 (1.77)
Japan: 34,983 / 1568 (22.31)
Others: 29,505 / 19,760 (1.49)

And these numbers aren't a fluke, let's look at YTD for 2010:

World: 3,745,966 / 1,453,429 (2.58)
Americas: 820,085 / 502,658 (1.63)
Japan: 1,318,288 / 58,026 (22.72)
Others: 1,607,593 / 892,745 (1.80)

But... but... the ratios are better than last year! I blame that on collapsing PS2 sales. Here're those figures (2009), for the record:

World: 10,286,135 / 5,038,994 (2.04)
Americas: 2,810,975 / 2,021,929 (1.39)
Japan: 2,282,316 / 224,648 (10.16)
Others: 5,192,844 / 2,792,417 (1.86)

So, if, for the Americas and Japan, we assume that half the year for sales is over after August (months 1-10 at 1x, November at 2x, December at 4x), then a rough assumption lets us double the current year sales for a yearly total. This puts the PS2 down about 50%, which would double the ratio for flat PSP sales. And Japan has done that. But America... it's barely up, indicating that the PSP is also in a fall. Others is an even sadder case- the ratio there is actually down, indicating that the PSP is in more freefall than even the PS2, which is not seeing the 50% drop due to emergence in developing markets.

Sorry, I can't see the PSP sales in a positive light. Ys Seven just came in the mail today for me, so I'm still getting my use out of the system, but... calling it anything but a dying system I can't see.

I have hope for the PSP... some...

It does, but it has few life, people just don't want a psp, they want a new sistem.

There is no way sony can maximize psp sales now.

Altrough PSP hardware is in decline it has probably best incoming lineup over next 12-18 it ever had.

Maybe Sony just doesn't see a lot of value in releasing a PSP2 right now. They always introduce "new" storage mediums with each of their consoles (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and UMD) and the PSP Go was them trying to introduce online distribution for their handheld (which they planned to implement in the next PSP as well, most likely). Maybe they'll introduce a PSP Phone one day (but that would be a "phone first and games second"-device because no one wants to pay a monthly contract to use a handheld console :-p ) or a PSP with an integrated high-res camera, who knows?

Currently they might find it valuable to just focus on the Playstation 3. They are finally in the black again with their gaming devision, they should only risk huge R&D costs (and manufactoring costs) for a PSP2 if it is 100% worth it. They lost over 3.5 billion dollars over the past 3 or 4 years during the PSP/PS3 era and they have to stay competitive in the home console business (price cuts, etc.). Maybe they could risk another year in the red numbers (because of a PSP2 launch), maybe they can't, I don't know I'm not a Sony insider.

But I'm rather sure if Nintendo released a Wii 2 before Sony was able to recover from the huge PS3 losses while losing money because of a new PSP at the same time they'd be in a bit of trouble.

It's a bit like the current situation of most western states - they were able to fight the financial crisis by increasing their debt but in case there's another crisis they are in deep trouble.