We'll see when GTA: Chinatown Wars launches. Surely with such strong 'difference in sales potential between the two', it should totally destroy Liberty City Stories sales. Especially considering that back when Liberty City Stories launched, PSP userbase was rather small, less than 10m WW. On 100m selling DS, new GTA game, 'much bigger than the PSP GTA games' (according to developers themselves), should totally destroy LCS sales. Anything less would be a disappointment.

I don't know. Like I've said before, no 3rd party game on DS has come close.

Franchises like Call of Duty, Assassins Creed, Ninja Gaiden, Madden, etc. have bombed on DS - this game could go either way.

GTA:LCS was oftern used as a way to hack early PSP models. This half explains it's sales.

Excuses, excuses. Most of its sales came from the first few months, before the exploit became well known...

Yea, but Yahoo is right. Anyone who thinks the PSP will be alive after 2010, isn't a realist, imo.

@Star Scream

What excuses? DS 3rd party > PSP 3rd party even in Japan, not to say that PSP is pretty much dead outside Japan, furthermore DS 1st party > PSP 1st party (well, the last one is a matter of opinion, let's say I do like DS 1st party more than PSP 1st party). Still trying to find a way to prove opposite? Better luck next time, you need some good excuses to prove that all is other way round in terms of 3rd party support.

i dont undersgand why userbase has any reference to being dead. we will have to see how the system holds up in japan but i expect it to sell less in 2009 than it did in 2008. plus yahoo does have a point with western software sales even if its a strong system in japan

@Star Scream: You're right about if it doesn't destroy PSP versions sales, it's a disappointment. We'll have to wait about a year after the release how the sales are.

@Aj Habfan: Best selling 3rd party game on DS is Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, with something around 3M in sales. But, you should take into account, that outside GTA games, PS2 didn't have 3rd party games that would have come close to the best selling first party game, of course, difference between 14M and 8M is a lot smaller than difference between 3M and 21M.

But, yeah, we'll see how it'll perform.

Saying "The PSP is dead!" is not that accurate being that it is still seeing a steady stream of game releases and its hardware is selling at a good rate ... I think a more accurate statement would be "The PSP's best days are behind it" because the upcomming games list for the PSP is decreasing in size and quality primarily because game sales are not good.

Yeah the PSP is like the Wii, almost no good 3d party Western support and is also in decline ........