Also , lets dont forget that the PSP becomes next week the best selling 2nd positioner of all times , beating the N64s less than 33 million :) Not bad at all :)
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In business, the ultimate goal is to make a profit. In that regard, it doesn't matter if you sell only 1 unit, as long as you get a return off of it; that's still better than selling 30 million and taking a loss. Which is a part of why Sony and Microsoft's business models are so very scorned by businesses at large. To sell something at a loss in hopes of making up for that loss in the future is something that only a firm with a lot of capital to spare can risk. And is the PSP profitable yet? Has it made up for the losses it incurred early on? I haven't seen any reports stating such, but I would be interested in seeing them.
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Personally I don't consider the PSP to be a failure when it comes to hardware sales, I think Sony will be pleased about that. But... indeed as you mention it and I've also have a conversation with Hunter_Alien about this... piracy is killing the software market. Therefore people who're downloading illegal games without paying a single penny for it are pissing me so off that they earn every single disrespect they can have from me. Due to all this downloading and therefore lower software sales, devs create less software for on the PSP, while the PSP most certainly deserves it as its certainly one heck of an amazing piece of hardware and that only in the palm of your hand.
Therefore pirates, you're the biggest lowlife scum around the planet...
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+32.5million psp's sold to date (three years)i think its a succsseful consol,and its not over,i think 2008 will be the best year for the psp.
Yes, it is a success because the PSP is the most successful Non-Nintendo handheld to date.
It's a success... for Sony.
Just sony though.... well and Capcom thanks to monster hunter. For everyone else.... not so much.
PSP doesn't sell games... and that has little to do with piracy. Almost anyone with an economic backround will tell you that.
The attach ratio in japan is 2.
It's really more a multimedia player then videogame player, but hey sony is making money so i'm sure they're happy.
| *~Onna76~* said: Personally I don't consider the PSP to be a failure when it comes to hardware sales, I think Sony will be pleased about that. But... indeed as you mention it and I've also have a conversation with Hunter_Alien about this... piracy is killing the software market. Therefore people who're downloading illegal games without paying a single penny for it are pissing me so off that they earn every single disrespect they can have from me. Due to all this downloading and therefore lower software sales, devs create less software for on the PSP, while the PSP most certainly deserves it as its certainly one heck of an amazing piece of hardware and that only in the palm of your hand. Therefore pirates, you're the biggest lowlife scum around the planet... Sorry mods for saying this |
I disagree. Well I think piracy is wrong. But I think if the PSP wasn't so piratable you wouldn't see an increase in sold software. You would see a decrease in purchased hardware.
People are programmed to want to buy things legally from a store when it is priced as what they see as a reasonable value. People who pirate are either mini-sociopaths or people who don't see the value of the game as being worth the price asked for it, and therefore wouldn't buy said product, or a PSP in the first place.
The PSP's main problem selling games wise is that it's basically a mini PSP. Who wants a mini PSP when you could be playing the real PSP? That and due to it's multimedia features, you have way more entertainment options other then just PSP games when on the road.
While with the DS. That's a system that's so different, if you've got a DS game you might sit at home and play your DS.
| Sullla said: The best way to describe the PSP is a modest success that fell far, far short of Sony's expectations. The goal with the PSP was not to "break into" the handheld market and get creamed by the DS. Sony created the PSP to destroy Nintendo's dominance in portables, with the intention of driving Nintendo out of business. Remember, this was back in 2004, the height of Sony's domination of the gaming market. The PS2 was destroying all comers, and the GBA was seen as the last bastion of hope for Nintendo, which Sony was going to sweep away just as they had taken over the console market. The PSP had ALL of the third party support, extensive multimedia capabilities, and Sony was able to leverage their motion picture division into releasing movies on the platform too! Every analyst thought it was over for the DS, which would be steamrolled with ease. So you have to keep some of those expectations in mind when evaluating the relative success or failure of the PSP. I seriously doubt that Sony would have been happy with the current situation of the PSP, if you had told them where they would be four years down the road. Neither would the Sony fans of four years ago. When you spin things around and make statements like "of course the PSP is a success, no one ever beats Nintendo handhelds", you're reading history backwards from the perspective of the present. That doesn't mean the PSP was a failure either; it's just been a very modest success. In no way has it come anywhere close to the goals it was supposed to achieve. Saying that the PSP must be a success because it turned a profit is a little like saying the Gamecube was a success because it also turned a profit. True in one sense, while missing the larger point. |
Kasz216 said:
I disagree. Well I think piracy is wrong. But I think if the PSP wasn't so piratable you wouldn't see an increase in sold software. You would see a decrease in purchased hardware. People are programmed to want to buy things legally from a store when it is priced as what they see as a reasonable value. People who pirate are either mini-sociopaths or people who don't see the value of the game as being worth the price asked for it, and therefore wouldn't buy said product, or a PSP in the first place. The PSP's main problem selling games wise is that it's basically a mini PSP. Who wants a mini PSP when you could be playing the real PSP? That and due to it's multimedia features, you have way more entertainment options other then just PSP games when on the road. While with the DS. That's a system that's so different, if you've got a DS game you might sit at home and play your DS. |
You ment PS2 right ? ;)
Anyways , I dont think Onna76 is wrong . True , games should be more handheld-oriented , but in the same time just look at all the games that where canceled due to high piracy numbers :
Devil May Cry : Dance of Sparda ( the game is TBA for more than 2 years now ) , Earthworm Jim ( the game was canceled due to immense piracy issue as stated by the developer ) , Gekido : The Dark Angel ( again , developers have presumably shifted game development to the PS3 because of financial insecurity of the PSP ) .
Also there where tons of other games that where canceled due to piracy from many companys ( Ubi is the best example by canceling RRR , Blazing Angels ) . Games where selling pretty well before the FW was cracked . Shure you can say that they where selling well because the PSP was new , and at first it was impressive to be able to play PS2 ports , but you just cant blame the huge dip in sales just on this , because even than we would still see most game performing at least 100k more or so , and not as some games , wich just bomb in the 30-60k region ...
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I'd say it's a huge success, no other hand held has managed to not only survive against a Nintendo hand held, but also steal a large amount of it's market share.
So I'd say Sony should be and probably is happy with the success of it's 1st hand held console, of course they could of done better, but they have set the first stepping stone and that is to create mind share, their next hand held will most likely do even better.
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