neither.
Satan said:
"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
success, its not easy to go up against a nintendo handheld during your first attemp (if you disclude pocketstation XD) and survive as well as creating a profitable market share % for yourself.
| Biggerboat said: If the video output was for all models then I'd think it would have a bigger impact but as far as I'm aware it's just the Lite. Also whilst a nice feature I don't think it'll be a system seller and would again possibly have little effect on game sales. The thing I don't get about Sony making a more efficient model is that the've put in a less powerful battery meaning that even though it eats less power the new PSP will have just as short a play length per charge as before! Incredible decision! Maybe Sony will make some dough on media downloads but if that scene is anything like the gaming one on the system then most PSP owners will be getting their fix illegally. |
Who said that the battery wasn't gonna last longer or even as long in the new PSP? Please provide a link if you wish to talk straight from your ass, thanks.
It's not a failure if that's your argument. From the data that can be gathered on this website(I'm not gonna dig around, this topic is OLD and rehashed a few times over) the PSP, h/w wise, has outsold the following:
Xbox
GC
N64(not sure, the number here is REAL low, is it right, anyone?)
SNES(???)
PS1
Saturn
DC
WS
WSC
GB(this can't be right, are some numbers missing or what???)
Ngage
Xbox360 
and finally.....
the Wii 
I just got the numbers off the charts here, I'm sure some of them are wrong or whatever but you get the point. Also, with the "surge" of new wiiboys here, take a f&cking joke when you see one and don't bother flaming me.
If anyone can clarify on a few of those numbers I'd appreciate it. The SNES, GB, and N64 numbers seem off, anyone know what's up?
oh, and what's a WS and WSC? I can't think of it right now. dee dee dee
I think it's far from a failure.
First hand held to compete with Nintendo and gain such a market share and that can't be considered a failure.
Also, I too predict higher sales of UMD once the video out PSP comes out and I look forward to that.
Thanks to Blacksaber for the sig!
vizunary said:
Who said that the battery wasn't gonna last longer or even as long in the new PSP? Please provide a link if you wish to talk straight from your ass, thanks. |
It was announced at Sony's press conference during E3 that it would have longer battery life and faster loading times in addition to being smaller. It has also been quoted all over the internet. At this point it's considered common knowledge.
This has been argued before but the PSP will outsell the N64 and Genesis so I consider it a success. It might reach SNES as well.
PSP is a success financially and as a hand held gaming console. As a music and video player, it is an unqualified failure. UMD's cost more to purchase and manufacture than DVD's and their visual, audio quality is now where near DVD's.
Sony have definitely expanded the handheld market, kudos to them. I guess they failed gamers when dev's started to shovel ports of PS2 games and by the time brain train clones and puzzle games started to arrive, Nintendo had stolen the thunder with the Nintendo DS. And sony lost a vital lead it had built up during the launch.
As a audio and video player, it is an utter failure, people still prefer ipods since it is more portable, rugged and you dont have to flip umds every time you change a movie and Sony never had an answer for iTunes.
Heeeeyyyy!!!! <Snap>
Failure. It failed to meet Sony's own goals of dominating the market and has to scratch out a meager existence by slapping Darth Vader on it. Meanwhile the Software sales remain abysmal as most of the hardcore users want to emulate old games on it and run homebrew apps while casual users don't care about anything that is released ever.
It's still second in a two man race. Which is dead last. Sony themselves didn't prize anything beneath first place, so why should anybody else?
| RolStoppable said: The PSP should be viewed as a failure simply because it clearly didn't meet Sony's own expectations in the portable system. For those who think the 33 % marketshare (if we neglect GBA sales in the timeframe since DS and PSP launched) of the PSP is a success, because it took away from Nintendo's dominance, there are two good reasons standing against this: First, this percentage will shrink over the course of the next few years and will be most likely around 20 % at the end. Second, it doesn't really bother Nintendo if Sony took some marketshare because the overall handheld market sales are most likely at least doubling the GBA sales of 76 million units. The PSP isn't really taking away any revenue or profits from Nintendo's handheld business. |
I would have a DS if I didn't have a PSP. I doubt I'm alone. I don't think Sony views it as a failure. It's about to get a huge sales boost with the new version.
windbane said:
I would have a DS if I didn't have a PSP. I doubt I'm alone. I don't think Sony views it as a failure. It's about to get a huge sales boost with the new version. |
who cares. i love my psp. i love playin my old snes, n64, genesis, ps1 games. such a great handheld system.
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