Originally posted by BackFire
Thing is, PSP sales have all but evaporated right now. Over the last year the DS has outsold the PSP by a huge amount, especially in japan. The DS, with the new DS lite design, are still selling like hot cakes, the PSP, not so much.
PSP is far from dead, the sales may have slowed down, but that doesn't mean they have stopped, the PSP is very powerful and very capable of catching the DS, don't think it is impossible because nothing is, the DS is great, but mainly for its unique games, once PSP has gotten itself a foothold of the handheld market, it can then make up for losses, Nintendo has had the handheld market on lockdown for years, did you really expect Sony a newcomer to instantly take its place, yeah right, little or no one had experienced gaming on a Sony handheld before, and considering its a newcomer, it did damn well in comparison to Sega's handheld, NeoGeo pocket and all those other flops that released and sold next to nothing.
I think PSP should be praised, it isn't always easy to enter a new market and dominate, look at Xbox, when it came out, it didn't do so well because of its lack of games etc, plus Sony and Nintendo rightfully owned the gaming market, now look at it, the 360 is dominating and is out of this world.
With its own unique games, more RPGs, more colourful games, more entertaining games, why should the PSP not take Nintendo's place if done well, I already know that Japanese are by no means biased, 360 doesn't sell well there, not because its American, but because it doesn't have games that appeal to Japanese people, just like the PSP, but yet, PS2 destroyed GameCube over there, so that is already proof that Japan does not favour one console over another, they just like the one with the most interesting games, and if PSP pulls that off, whallah, there we have it, sitting right next to DS 🙂
Might proove to be difficult with Nintendo's 6 or 5 generations of experience with the handheld market, but its not impossible.