Originally posted by BackFire
Yes, the stats you showed clearly shows the DS beating the PSP, which is why I was confused when you agreed with Rico about the PSP outselling the DS in the month of november, and hence me "drowning" (I love hyperbole) you in statistics that proved otherwise. You're defending the PSP as if I said it was a failure or a bad system, which I never said or insinuated, I know it's a success and a respectable system.That last stat that shows the GBA beating it last month was posted just because I thought it was interesting, and it wasn't something I was aware of.
Anyways, you say the DS only appeals to one market, so what? That's a strength, because it's not trying to do a bunch of stupid shit like watch movies on a failing format (UMD) it allows the price to stay low, nothing wrong with a company just focusing on one thing and one thing alone, it allows them to make that one aspect of their system superb, while not having to worry about all the other secondary aspects.
You also ask why I don't speak about ps2/gamecube/ipod sales. Possibly because this thread is about the PSP and handheld gaming, not old console systems and a music player.
So again, to make it clear, I only objected to the idea that the PSP outsold the DS in November, which was an untruth, nothing more.
Its whats behind the arrow you're looking at. To the right of the arrows I mean. I know full well the DS appeals to one market, and I didn't say anything was wrong with that, but even a non gamer knows the PSP isn't just aiming at the gaming market, its aiming at business ppl, the average person on thier daily jog, a person in a car, a person on a flight, urban gamers, mature audiences, pretty much anyone, and games for PSP although limited also appeal to all ages although targeted at a mature audience, its okay to focus on one aspect, but in a modern world, nobody would outside gaming would ever think about picking up a PSP, but with its other possibilities, anyone can, it isn't just focused at one market like Ipod or DS is, it is focusing at several, yes its expensive, but for an item such as the PSP, its worth it to some people, obviously a supporter of the DS would never see it this way as handhelds are made for gaming apparently, but you are forgetting why Sony became famous in the first place, walkmans, and these days its other handhelds, it is a really stupid thing to make a gaming handheld when you have a compnay that has many different qualities, Sony is in the movie industry, the phone industry, the gaming industry, the tech industry, why in the hell not make use of its strengths, that would be a stupid idea, and with the lack of games for a brand new handheld to the industry, its only wise to have other things to back it up at least until its games can help support it.
Have you considered that? Why do you think other handhelds from other companies failed? Its because they went head to head with a leading company with far more experience, why do you think Microsoft goes unchalleneged in the Software industry, or Ipod in the MP3 industry? Why do you think Zune failed to reach Ipod's standards? its because it went head to head, and when you look at Microsoft's inexperience in the MP3 department, whos product is an average person most likely to go with? Ipod of course, its a more recognised brand. So don't tell me about what Nintendo is doing, I'm not stupid, I know full well what they are doing and it is easy for them to get sales, nearly everyone knows the term gameboy, even non gamers do, how the heck was Sony meant to compete with that with a new only gaming (but limited) handheld? Next to impossible for them to survive in the market, to be honest, if they had followed the gaming path alone, I would have been suprized if they made 1m sales alone. So all those other features you say are crap and unneeded, I'll have you know, all that so called crap and failed devices has made the PSP both a name in the handheld industry and kept it surviving this long.
When I first had PSP, people asked me if it was gameboy, notice the powerful brand name Nintendo has, now when I walk around with it, people come up to me and go "Oh, you have a PSP", I was even stopped by a high sophisticated woman in London once who didn't even look as if she knew anything about gaming, we had a little convo on the train about the PSP, and she herself said she had considered buying it, the only thing stopping her being the fact that she was unsure of the price, once I told her, she seemed fine with it, not the slightest bit phased.
So please, spare me the details about how DS dominated this and that, DS dominated because there was no competition, also because former competitors were either to stupid or limited to realise that in the business world, you cannot always take on a business head to head and expect to win or survive for that matter. You have to have something extra, something unique, otherwise the company with the more know brand name wins, just the same way PS got past Nintendo with CDs and Xbox is competiting with PS3 with XBL, like Wii competes with Sony and Micro by having the new Wiimote, you need difreciation to suceed, if you studied business you'd know that.
Right now all that matters is that PSP has done its job, it has given itself a rightful name and stopped being known as a Gameboy, it has sold 22million, more so then any current next gen console, it is still increasing in sales, sold more then any competitior in the handheld department Nintendo has ever had on a large scale.