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Red4ADevil on 08 May 2008

LOL As a long time Nintendo handheld owner i doubt the zune isnt even going make a scratch on the DS's market share. It sounds more like its going to end up competing with the flash based games on mobile phones. No 3D hardware acceleration?



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Garcian Smith on 08 May 2008

The Zune has already lost the "MP3 Player Wars." Not that anyone expected it to win in the first place, except maybe Microsoft. They won't be able to revive an unsuccessful product with a few Java games.

Just more proof that MS absolutely sucks at making (and marketing) hardware.



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Golvellius on 08 May 2008

The Zune has lost the MP3 player war just like the original Xbox lost the previous generation's console war.
Microsoft's strategy is to smoke out the competition, so this might take some time.
Apple might be more difficult to beat than Sony, though.



blaydcor on 08 May 2008
Onimusha12 said:
this could potentially kill the PSP in the west.

That's extreme sarcasm, right? The only thing any type of Zune could potentially kill is Microsoft's annual profits.

 



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Stockstar1138 on 08 May 2008

good god, help us all. id rather play my gameboy color than this thing. adding a gaming option to a zune might increase the zunes sales up to 1.5 million, but in no way is this thing a threat to an ipod, psp, ds, or anything else that remotely reslembles mediocre success.



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Onimusha12 on 08 May 2008
hunter_alien said:
Onimusha12 said:
DMeisterJ said:
Yes, the PSP is shaking in it's boots.

The Zune will kill the PSP. It has HEXIC!!11

It can't produce 3-D graphics. And controls with a directional pad and two buttons. What games can play on that?

PSP = dead confirmed.

Well the PSP has already been relatively dead for well over a year now, only recently have we seen it still has a pulse.


 Oh , you mean the constant hardware lead in Japan , constantly beeing #3 worldwide in hardware sales untill last weeks GTA phenomen , having an extremly close softwar attach rate to the DS in the US and  85% sales growth in the US over last year is just a pulse ... yep , the PSP is dead and the Zune will be the last nail in the coffin ...


So now the Japanese market matters? I hate to break it to you but while the PSP is doing much better now its still not being bought primarily for gaming. It's only success is as a hardware device, not a gaming one. Eitherway, that's really not the point of this thread. Maybe you should calmn down a bit.



cattmanndann on 08 May 2008

aha i have a zune but i dont think the point of games on it is to compete with psp and ds i think its to compete with ipods



blaydcor on 08 May 2008
Onimusha12 said:
 

So now the Japanese market matters? I hate to break it to you but while the PSP is doing much better now its still not being bought primarily for gaming. It's only success is as a hardware device, not a gaming one. Eitherway, that's really not the point of this thread. Maybe you should calmn down a bit.

 
Onimusha knows these things; he has a secret power that lets him read the thoughts of everybody who purchases a PSP.

I really couldn't care less about the PSP, especially in a thread that has nothing to do about it, but cut it out with the whole wiser-than-thou argument. Good grammar isn't a substitue for a cohesive argument; you're stating stuff that you have no real idea about as if it was fact.

 



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wareagle372 on 08 May 2008

I know a good name: the Zune POS(if you don't know what POS is, just message me)



 

Onimusha12 on 09 May 2008
blaydcor said:
Onimusha12 said:
 

So now the Japanese market matters? I hate to break it to you but while the PSP is doing much better now its still not being bought primarily for gaming. It's only success is as a hardware device, not a gaming one. Eitherway, that's really not the point of this thread. Maybe you should calmn down a bit.

 
Onimusha knows these things; he has a secret power that lets him read the thoughts of everybody who purchases a PSP.

I really couldn't care less about the PSP, especially in a thread that has nothing to do about it, but cut it out with the whole wiser-than-thou argument. Good grammar isn't a substitue for a cohesive argument; you're stating stuff that you have no real idea about as if it was fact.

 


I have good grammar? Wow, I always thought it was above average but never anything impressive. Eitherway its been well known for a while now that the PSP has extremely poor software sales in comparison to hardware sales. People try to suggest that piracy and homebrew is the culprit for this, but to be honest with each Sony update for the PSP it becomes damn near impossible to do either of these. Its much easier to pirate games on the DS, yet we don't see this problem shared. I think a far more plausable explanation would be the popularity of the PSP as a relatively cheap multi-media communications device with free internet. Just a thought, I mean the PSP is only one of the biggest things to hit the club scene in the states since hot topic, its a pseudo-status symbol in many college town goth clubs. Its not unfeasable that in a culture such as Japan's (their youth) driven by communications and the craddle of the cell phone as we know it this day (text messaging, camera phone, video phone, etc), its not unthinkable that a similar appeal would exist.