Final Fantasy Tactics for PSP and GBA (DS?) Sequel

The DS is selling fine, Ush what are you talking about?

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164742.html

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Err, it really doesn't- the last issue Nintendo has with the DS is sales issues.

With an M3 all NDS and GBA game are free. The M3 forum I post on has 300,000+ members and most of them have M3's and thats just people on a forum. It may not affect the DS as much as the ps, but none the less profits are lost due to easy pirating.

Originally posted by JToTheP
The DS is selling fine, Ush what are you talking about?

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164742.html

That's kind of precisely what he just said, if you read his post.

Yup, JP just needs to read my posts properly, and dirk, all that is spectacularly irrelevant to what I just said. There is absolutely no problem for Nintendo there at all; sales are incredibly strong.

The situation is this- at the point at which the DS had sold 21 million, the PSP had sold 20 million. The DS has widened the gap more now, but the fact is on sheer unit sales the PSP was holding its own.

But on software sales- where the money is made- the PSP was, is, and almost certainly always will be being annihilated. At the point of the 20 vs 21 million gap above, the DS had four out of the top five selling games in japan, including the number one. The PSP only had one in the top 20.

Conclusion? people were buying the PSP, but they sure as hell weren't shelling out for games and movies on it. The ease of PSP piracy is a major contributory factor to this. And that means that Sony simply was not making any money. Cutting the prince of the PSP won;t change that if piracy remains so easy.

But the DS has HUGE games sales. The piracy issue, in comparison, is almost totally irrelevant. So this IS an issue for the PSP and not the DS. End of.

They've actually discontinued making UMD movies, if I remember correctly. No one was buying, and why would they if they can simply save movies off their computer onto a memory stick?

Yes, the format is being shut down, and indeed, ease of piracy was almost certainly an issue there.

Originally posted by Ushgarak

But the DS has HUGE games sales. The piracy issue, in comparison, is almost totally irrelevant. So this IS an issue for the PSP and not the DS. End of.

Yeah in comparison the piracy of the DS is nothing compared to the PSP, and the most of the pirates wouldn't buy the games they pirate anyways.

The FF game for PSP is out June 13th in the US, apparently.

Or so the big book of doom at my store says, anyway 😛

Originally posted by Lana
The FF game for PSP is out June 13th in the US, apparently.

Or so the big book of doom at my store says, anyway 😛

Does your big book of doom smell a PSP price drop by then as well. becuase I am going have to get that game so I will have to buy a PSP, aslo does it have a date for crisis core.

Originally posted by dirkdirden
Does your big book of doom smell a PSP price drop by then as well. becuase I am going have to get that game so I will have to buy a PSP, aslo does it have a date for crisis core.

Nope and nope.