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cwbys21 on 14 April 2008

And how many were ports and how many were specifically for the gc?



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cwbys21 on 14 April 2008

Right now I count 15 games that are going to be on other platforms. You got 2 games that are going to based on movies, 7 sports titles that appear on all platforms, and six games that are ported to all platforms like star wars and tomb raider and somehow oblivion will be released also. So that leaves 43 unique games made specifically for the psp. And the fact the companies like EA are willing to still port the sports titles to the psp says a lot since they aren't raking in the money with their yearly games like they think they should.



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That Guy on 14 April 2008

PSP is successful. It's the most successful non-nintendo made handheld ever.



Kasz216 on 14 April 2008
CaptainPrefrences said:
CrazzyMan

Do you really think developers can trust the PSP2? If sony can make the PSP2 impossible to hack, and it uses some media storage that isnt UMD then yes it could have an effect on teh psp2.

if not the psp will turnout like teh dreamcast

 Dreamcast turned out like the dreamcast because Sega was poor.  Piracy had nothing to do with it.

Dreamcast sales started going down due to the hype of the PS2 and it being obvious that Dreamcast wouldn't have full support.

After all a bunch of developers wouldn't develop on dreamcast because of how Sega mismanaged previous systems. 



Griffin on 14 April 2008
HappySqurriel said:
Griffin said:
HappySqurriel said:
Griffin said:
You guys are acting as if Sony has sold no games for the system. The system so far has sold 143million software units to retail. This is for for the date ending December 31, 2007. At that point it had sold 69% of GC total software and 64% of the total N64 software. By the time the PSP stops selling it will of passed both those Nintendo systems.

I'm not sure your numbers are accurate ... Nintendo announced in 2005 that they had published 2 Billion pieces of software worldwide, if the Gamecube and N64 only had (in total) 500,000 pieces of software sold it is unlikely that they would have met that mark.


 The NES sold 500, SNES 379, N64 225, GC 208, GB/GBC 501, GBA 375, DS 331, these are all of December 31, 2007 and come from this thread and were posted by TheSource, http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=23700&start=0 

The PSP numbers come directly from Sony yearly reports. 


Which (probably) means that the Source's numbers are inaccurate because, even if Nintendo was overestimating their software sales, there is no way Nintendo announced that they PUBLISHED 2 Billion units of software on less than 2 Billion total units of software sold on their systems combined.

Outside of Million sellers few games from the NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, GBA, or even Gamecube had their sales announced (or accurately tracked) in North America and Europe ...

The fact that the PSP has half as many million selling games, with total sales at 1/4 of the Gamecube should be a (very good) indicator that its total game sales are far below the 70% you suggest.


I guess you never went to the link i gave, as TheSource gives his source as the Nintendo site for investor relations.  As we all know this information must be correct or they could face charges from their government along with other charges.