PSN ID: Kwaad
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PSN ID: Kwaad
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Games make me happy! PSN ID: Staticneuron Gamertag: Staticneuron Wii Code: Static Wii - 3055 0871 5802 1723
if a quality 3rd party company is making a premiere game, what system are they going to release it on? Not nintendo, whilst you guys bring up the arguement that more 3rd party games have been sold on DS, what makes up most of those numbers? crappy ports or games that we as gamers couldn't give a #@!$ about, cars, happy feet etc. until nintendo can start lureing in big 3rd party franchises/new ip's and not just 3rd party support, sony will always hold a share of the handheld market
PSN ID: Kwaad
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Static, you really need to stop listing games that aren't developed by Sony. It weakens your argument. You could still make a good argument with just the Sony developed titles. Continually bringing up games not developed by Sony shows a lack of belief in your argument IMO.
You might wanna tell Sony about that, Kwaad. They said that the "baton had been passed" from Gameboy to PSP, and that they would bring portables out of the "gaming ghetto." If that wasn't some kind of indication that their goal was total market domination, what did they mean? But go ahead, spin it out that their goal was simply to attain marketshare. But your claim that the PSP was the first to "attain marketshare" is just false. Anything that EXISTS in the market will get marketshare. The Game Gear did it, so did the Neo Geo Pocket and so did the Wonderswan. You may have an argument over Sony having the most marketshare, but it's still getting its ass beat all day long.
The american market is where the psp is holding its own against the DS (be it only just) Nintendo do need to lure big western 3rd parties to the DS to get these talented companies to create something brilliantly new and not waste their efforts making ports of games that they have already made on other systems. Do that and sony will have no choice but to innovate or leave the handheld market
In order to understand what the PSP was supposed to do, you first have to figure out "Why didn't Sony enter the Handheld market before and why did they decide to release a system in 2004?" I have heard it suggested that the iPod was the main reason the PSP was created. Sony (a company that dominated the portable music player market for a very long time) simply didn't see the iPod comming, didn't see the need for a hard-drive based music player and focused on pushing their own music format (mini-disc). The PSP was supposed to take one of Sony's strongest brands (Playstation) and to use it to reclaim their lost dominance in the portable music industry.
PSN ID: Kwaad
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