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hunter_alien on 23 December 2007
SteveSmith said:
Anyone knows if Sony makes profit for each PSP sold, or if they lose money on each PSP sold? The PSP with all its components looks expensive.

 At this point they probably make money with them ... even at first , the loss was really small , so I think saying that they started to win at ~ 12-16 million is fairly accurate ...

 

Hardware wise the PSP is doing great . The only issue that seriously hurts it is hardware . But one can only wonder , if the software sales are really so bad as many state , why do 3rd party publishers even make games for it > 



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llewdebkram on 23 December 2007

Touch Screen Ds,

Touch screen mobile phones,

*ipod Touch,

I wonder what the PSP2 will have!!

 

*I've hated ipods for years and have always said there are much better mp3 players, but my son just got an ipod touch and it's a pretty fine device!!

 

 



Jetlogs on 23 December 2007

If the PSP2 added touch controls, it will be almost as if the PSP surrendered to the DS



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hunter_alien on 23 December 2007
Jetlogs said:
If the PSP2 added touch controls, it will be almost as if the PSP surrendered to the DS

 Why is that ... wit Ive forgot , there wherent no PDAs untill the DS came out right .... I would like the PSP2 to have a touchscreen , but not for gaming ,  for browsing the net :D



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sinha on 23 December 2007
ssj12 said:
PSP2 will use mini-Blu-ray discs able to hold 14GB each.



Playstation and Blu-ray: a proven winning combination.

 



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hunter_alien on 23 December 2007

I think that Sony have learnt from their mistackes , and they wont add BRD to thge next PSP . UMD2 is my bet , with ~ 4-5 GB of space :)



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SteveSmith on 24 December 2007

Can't they use some sorts of carts or flash drives instead?



Stats87 on 24 December 2007
hunter_alien said:
SteveSmith said:
Anyone knows if Sony makes profit for each PSP sold, or if they lose money on each PSP sold? The PSP with all its components looks expensive.

At this point they probably make money with them ... even at first , the loss was really small , so I think saying that they started to win at ~ 12-16 million is fairly accurate ...

 

Hardware wise the PSP is doing great . The only issue that seriously hurts it is hardware . But one can only wonder , if the software sales are really so bad as many state , why do 3rd party publishers even make games for it >


hahaha, a typo i presume?

I have a PSP Slim and I only have 4 games and I only see myself buying 4 all of 2008. (at the most)

But I, like I am sure many others, use my PSP for many things as well as gaming. I've never really been a handheld guy (although I used to love my ol gameboy) but the PSP is a great piece of hardware.

I think i might grab a DS though, my nearby EB has a "sell one game, get a DS for 99.99" deal. So it is very cheap and has a few game that i really want to play.



hunter_alien on 24 December 2007
Stats87 said:
hunter_alien said:
SteveSmith said:
Anyone knows if Sony makes profit for each PSP sold, or if they lose money on each PSP sold? The PSP with all its components looks expensive.

At this point they probably make money with them ... even at first , the loss was really small , so I think saying that they started to win at ~ 12-16 million is fairly accurate ...

 

Hardware wise the PSP is doing great . The only issue that seriously hurts it is hardware . But one can only wonder , if the software sales are really so bad as many state , why do 3rd party publishers even make games for it >


hahaha, a typo i presume?

I have a PSP Slim and I only have 4 games and I only see myself buying 4 all of 2008. (at the most)

But I, like I am sure many others, use my PSP for many things as well as gaming. I've never really been a handheld guy (although I used to love my ol gameboy) but the PSP is a great piece of hardware.

I think i might grab a DS though, my nearby EB has a "sell one game, get a DS for 99.99" deal. So it is very cheap and has a few game that i really want to play.


 Wops ... I meant software for the second time :?



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endurance on 24 December 2007
hunter_alien said:
I think that Sony have learnt from their mistackes , and they wont add BRD to thge next PSP . UMD2 is my bet , with ~ 4-5 GB of space :)

can those be pirated?