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DonWii on 07 June 2007

Yeah. I never knew there was that much of a software difference.

I wonder what would happen if you subtract all of the DS "Training" 'Games'...



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konnichiwa on 07 June 2007
DonWii said:
Wow. But I bet someone can take away all of the Training games and, suddenly, we have a 1:1 ratio.

/joke. OR is it?

 Lol..
I guess it can possible if you take away the training, nintendogs and Pokemon games ^^'' lol...J/K

It must be hard for developpers on PSP to work so hard for beautifull games and then see that a nintendogs game sell 10 times so much. I don't know if that is good for real gamers though for nintendo fanboys yes but for just gamers :s I don't know.






JSF on 07 June 2007
your mother said:
VonShigsy said:
your mother said:
konnichiwa said:
Christopher_G2 said:
JSF said:

Since you're a stats-lover, have you ever wondered how many DS'es the average DS owner owns, what with the model change and the constant color additions (and then there are also the limited editions)? Is number of units sold more important than number of unique DS users? What do you think the average number of PSP's per PSP owner is? And how do you think the number of unique DS owners compares to the number of unique PSP owners?

 

Well I know the DS sells more games per unit hardware sold than the PSP. That should be the most telling stat at all. The PSP was supposed to be the hardcore gamer's handheld, yet DS owners are buying more games.


True but how many are not downloading weekly a game on their PSP it is incridible my brother have more than 50 illegal games on his PSP.

That is nothing: The sysadmin at the office where I work has a hard drive replete with 900 - count 'em - 900 DS titles that he drags-and-drops to his DS at will!

 


But you still have to buy the flash cart for the DS. PsP is easier to bootleg games.

I'm not too sure of that.

A guy at the office has had his PSP for ages before he bought a DS, and during all that time he never bothered to figure out how to bootleg his PSP, because he found it a tad hard and inconvenient to follow for the very first time. Yeah, he did finally get around to it though.

He bought his DS with the flash cart included, and it was a matter of literally dragging and dropping files from his PC to his DS.

Ergo, PSP may be "cheaper" to bootleg games as it does not require additional hardware, but the DS is more "user-friendly" to bootleg.

 


 The userfriendliness of bootlegging PSP versus DS is not the most important factor.  It is the demographic.  
I'd say the PSP has a core group of males between the ages of 16 and 35.  I'd also say the typical "hacker" peer-to-peer (no moral dilemma with taking digital content without paying - generation Napster) sort of user is well within this range.  DS having a wider sort of demographic, you aren't going to find too many elementary school kids and their soccer moms hacking their DS'es, nor are grandpa and
grandma.

I don't want to sound sexist, but what I'm about to say is true.  Females like the DS more.  Males, in 
general, love visual stimulation.  Females will trade it off for cutesy-wutesy cuddly-wuddly.  So females choose DS in much greater numbers.  How's that important to pirating?  Well, I don't 
have the research or numbers, but I'm willing to bet males are more likely to hack around with gadgets than females. 

 



VonShigsy on 07 June 2007
FishyJoe said:
But if Sony hadn't provided the pressure, Nintendo may have kept the GBA going longer. And instead of making the DS, they might have just made a GBA+ or something like the PSP.
That's not nessesary the case here. The Virtual Boy was released in 95, while the GB was dominant and the other handhelds were all but obsolete. So innovation only might have pushed the release of DS.

 



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DonWii on 07 June 2007

Well, 3rd parties could put a bit more effort into their DS games. I saw many interesting ideas for games, only to find out that they were poorly done. Of course, as it stands, Nintendo is the best at developing for its own console.

I am looking forward to the NG game for the DS, as well as Drawn to life.



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DonWii on 07 June 2007

I'll admit that out of the 15 DS games I own, only one is not made by Nintendo. It is also my least favorite game in the bunch. Its Bomberman. I wasnt expecting much from it, but I didnt even get that.

My favorite is Elite Beat Agents, because it is the most innovative and enjoyable game I have played in a long time. The gameplay is addictive, and it only gets better as the songs become harder. An interesting rythm game.

BTW, anyone know if and Imported Japanese DS game will work in a NA DS? 



Gballzack on 07 June 2007

Ah the Homebrew argument, for the longest time before the PSP had worthwhile games Sony fans would go on and on about how they could emulate this or that on their PSP, lol.



JSF on 07 June 2007
naznatips said:
Wow, that's an insanely high software sales difference.

 Which further supports my claim that piracy is a much bigger issue on the PSP than on the DS.



DonWii on 07 June 2007

Not really, though you could assume that is a reason.

BTW, anyone know if and Imported Japanese DS game will work in a NA DS?



JSF on 07 June 2007
Gballzack said:
Ah the Homebrew argument, for the longest time before the PSP had worthwhile games Sony fans would go on and on about how they could emulate this or that on their PSP, lol.

Your point being?  If you're emulating old stuff, you're not buying new stuff.  Game publishers want you to
buy all your old games over and over again, in the form of collections and downloads and slightly modified
remakes.  Game publishers don't like homebrew emulators.