MANUELF said: hunter_alien said: Hmmm let us see: hardware makes money. Check. Big players like Sony, Capcom, SE, Namco-Bandai, Konami, EA are making money on software. Check. Japanese game library increasing a lot. Check. Sony promisses more 3rd party syupport next year, Gamestop aknowledges and says its true.... so no I dont think that its dead, or that it will be anytime soon ;)   Not all of them, at least EA and SE are losing money on the PSP If that is increasing a lot then what is the japanese DS library. More multiplatform titles?

My god... you are so speaking out of you a**. Common, Im certain that EA lost tons of money selling a million FIFA 08 UMDs which is just a lousy port... or SE by shipping nearly 2 million CCs.... at least come with facts when you attack a handheld. EAs big games like FIFA, Madden and NFS allways sold far better then the DS versions, hell I would even use the rape word when I wnat to describe just how better many of them sell in comparison ;)

And SE loosing moeny on the PSP... well thats new to me, but seeing that you dont provide any link at all IMO thats new to you to ;)

 

Also, why do you always have to come with the DS library is huge argument? We all know that, but just because a system is selling well it doesnt means that a nother one cant do great either, and IMO this year is more then enough proof for my theory ;)

 

And for multiplatform games... well seeing SE and Level 5s stance these couple of weeks... I would say wait for TGS, or wait untill western devlopers even have time to react to the this PSP hardware boost ;)

 

ahcheng said: Likely sony is going to close its psp department..

I do hope that this was sarcasm.... if not then I feel so sorry for you :P

 

RolStoppable said: Well, the release list for the rest of the year is thin. The PSP is in its fourth year and experiencing what usually happens to losing systems at this point: decreasing 3rd party support. And yes, that's usually the beginning of the end for a system.

 

True, but you got to remember, everytime there is some halfassed word from Sony(or any company about any other company) that things aren't looking all sunny, these crazy attention grabbing article writers can't wait to write it up as a doomsday prediction.

I think the PSP is fine.

No matter what they do, No matter what they say, the PSP still has a good 3 years or so in it nuff said.

Agito XIII/Dissidia/Crisis Core FFVII/GOW:COO/GH/Patapon/R:R/etc...

PSP has alot of life in it, its just alot of people own it now ala wii. jeez the Ignorance of some people. (The guy who wrote the review) he must be an apple fanboy. ala iPod.

The same people have been saying that the PSP is dead/dying/a failure ever since late 2005 even as it's outsold everything in Japan except the DS Lite, has outsold every other non-Nintendo handheld combined, is the only console not made by Nintendo to have strong sales in all regions, and is on pace to one day pass the SNES and possible the NES.

I think it's just become cool on gaming and tech forums to hate anything made by Sony. If the PSP suddenly started outselling the DS in hardware and software, all the haters would find some other sorry reason to bash it.

i realy love my psp much more than my ds i will be very sad if thats happend

Once again my favorite system starts to falter in the marketplace. Do I truly have so little in common with the average gamer?

FinalEvangelion said: konnichiwa said: Strange to read this when Level 5 just announced two new Level 5 games.   I was thinking the same thing as well, along with the SE announcements just 1 month ago. Apparently, Japanese devs don't count, because it seems the opposite is happening with them than what the article states.

 

yay in the last 3 weeks there was announced at least 10 new high quality jrpgs for dsand few dozens more games.

if you don't see a problem when for console in not even half its lifetime we are getting 6-8 announcements of new QUALITY games(no i'm not talking about ports of crappy games from ps2) for more than 3 months then you don't know jag.

PSP Yearly Software Releases

It’s a good idea to start off with the most general information. As it stands, it’s also the most alarming information:



2005 and 2006 look like a normal, strong trajectory for a new hardware platform. While releases on the system started off fairly slow as developers came to grips with the hardware, the growing installed base also grew the amount of software. As a result, 2006 saw over double the number of games as 2005.

By 2007, it would be reasonable to expect healthy growth in the number of releases yet again. Yet somehow, this is not the case; 2007 actually drops off in releases by a significant 17 percent.

Alone that would be pretty bad, but then 2008 creeps in. It’s important to recall several things about 2008; as noted on the previous page, the counting method differed here, which could lead to slight inconsistencies in the data. And of course, we've taken into account games that haven’t shipped yet and might be pushed back, but have no way of knowing about games that haven’t been announced yet that could see stealth releases—PlayStation Store games, for example.

Even taking this into account, the drop-off is so statistically significant that there’s no way to write it off. 2008 managed only slightly more releases than the PSP’s launch year, which was only ten months long. That’s a staggering 40 percent decrease compared to an already depressed 2007.



One can get a bit more detail by looking at the month-to-month release schedule, which fluctuates according to the expected industry cycles but definitely trends downward.



To avoid the natural seasonal depressions, it might be more instructive to pull out a single month from each year. March is a good example, because it’s been a busy one throughout the system’s life and allows comparison with solid 2008 data, instead of guessing with something like October. It looks almost identical to the yearly release data in the first graph, thus reinforcing the fact that things are looking bad for the PSP software support.

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http://www.edge-online.com/features/third-parties-abandoning-psp?page=0%2C1

waron said: FinalEvangelion said: konnichiwa said: Strange to read this when Level 5 just announced two new Level 5 games.   I was thinking the same thing as well, along with the SE announcements just 1 month ago. Apparently, Japanese devs don't count, because it seems the opposite is happening with them than what the article states.   yay in the last 3 weeks there was announced at least 10 new high quality jrpgs for dsand few dozens more games. if you don't see a problem when for console in not even half its lifetime we are getting 6-8 announcements of new QUALITY games(no i'm not talking about ports of crappy games from ps2) for more than 3 months then you don't know jag.

 

Oops.  I thought there were some good games coming for PSP.  Now that I have been enlightened that more may come to DS, I guess it's time for me to throw my PSP out the window and forget about Agito and 3rd Birthday /sarcasm.

 

Oh wait, I wasn't talking about the DS.  I was talking about the PSP getting more games that pique my interest.  Yes, I do have a DS and plan to buy more games.  I also have a PSP and plan to buy more games.  I guess I'm not allowed to talk about good upcoming PSP games without comparing to freakin' DS (Always Nintendo vs. Sony).