Still not comparable though. $8 is nice but UMD's like DVD's are printed for cents on the dollar. Give it another year or two and it might make sense assuming the absolute bottom for flash can go that low.
I don't think its cents on the dollar. Remember you have two parts of the umd. Its not simply a disc like a dvd.
First you have to make the umd disc then you have to make the umd caddy , then you have to put them together.
Dvds you simply stamp out and your done . The umds add another two steps to that and plus they are not made in the same volumes as dvds .
Yes, I mentioned PSP sales has picked up and it's leading DS for some time now (in terms of monthly sales). For software sales, DS and Wii have dominated the Japanese chart for the longest time. Good PSP games can still sell though, they are just not as common. I don't see PSP as achieving its full potential today, but I wouldn't call it a shamble too.
so what we have to wait another 4 years before you will call it a failure . The sales wont pick up , you can't just suddenly make a 4 year old product hot .
Neither has good games though. Carrying them around for gaming would be pointless.
At least for a PSP, I know there are some great ones. The DS games unfortunately do not appeal to me.
The PS3 integration is a nice touch too, the media function is a good start, but has room for improvement.
Online gaming for PSP-on-the-go is not realistic now unless it uses cellular networks. Tethered usage (syncing with PC) makes more sense. I feel that ad hoc gaming is worth revisiting if they are going after Game 3.0 and media sharing.
but my psp doesn't have the space to hold all my music and videos and it can't make phone calls all the while its bigger than both my cell phone and zune combined. if i bring my psp i may get video games but then i'd still have to carry my cell phone and i'm still hampred by how much music or video i could bring. Then factor in that if i want to bring more than 1 umd with me it will take up even more room .
Online gaming for PSP-on-the-go is not realistic now unless it uses cellular networks. Tethered usage (syncing with PC) makes more sense. I feel that ad hoc gaming is worth revisiting if they are going after Game 3.0 and media sharing.
I was thinking more along the lines of hanging out at panera bread and jumping on the free wifi and getting a new game before i start a summer road trip or something along that line. Its a feature i've wanted on my zune since it launched. The ablity to get on zune market place and use the zune pass to update my music , podcasts , videos and go back out on the road . I believe its something that all wifi enabled devices should have.
I would rather see the PSP2 as a clamshell that is 2 folding. What I mean is that both sides fold into the middle, I have included a prehistoric picture with my limited abilities and programs.
err your pictures show the screen folding. I don't know of any mass produced folding screens . I don't believe that currently what your proposing is even possible. Your also now doubling the thickness of the psp and I don't think it would fit in my pocket as is there. You'd have to have a huge size decrease from the psp 2000 to this one . But you will allways have to take into consideration the umd foot print. Also lets not forget that what your showing is much easier to break as it now has 2 hinges / sliding parts and also a moving drive bay.
Check your facts. PSP software does very well. Very often the top software title in Japan is a PSP title.
yes and aside from 1 or 2 games they rarely stay on the top of the charts more than a week. Many wont even place on the charts and many more will place on the chart one week and be gone the next .
What about the DS? It's bigger than your zune or your cell phone. Is the DS also a failure because it's bulkier than those?
My ds (and i'm taling the ds lite ) fits in my pocket and its smaller and thinner than my psp . I don't like carry either of them in my pocket , however my ds is fine on my hip (where i also carry my phone when i'm working ) The psp doesn't even fit there as its way to bulky .
Get a DS lite. Compare it to the PSP-2000. It's thicker (by a couple of millimeters) than the PSP and shorter by about 3cm. Again, like you, I don't know what I'm talking about, but here goes: make it a clamshell about as wide as the DS and put the controller and UMD on the bottom half. It'll probably be thicker than the DS, but not by a lot. Or is that too big? It must be, afterall the DS is a huge failure.
the psp will be quite large by that point when you factor in the hing and protection for the screen. Your now making it fatter instead of wider. You would also now have a button placement problem. The buttons will be to close together without the screen there to space them out. Take your psp and place your hands over the screen in the set up you use for pressing the buttons. Does that feel right to you , does it seem like something you'd want to use .
The long-term goal is always to make money. If they can make money on the short-term, that's good too. Striving for some far-off goal, incurring heavier losses because you're unhappy with hardware that's actually selling quite well doesn't seem sound.
dumping millions more into a product that is failing to meet expectations doesn't make sense either.
The longer sony keeps the psp on life support the more time nintendo has to either relaunch the ds as a smaller system or launch a new ds with better graphics and tech behind it . it even gives ms a shot at launching a handheld .
See? Moving goalposts again. The PSP has a great selection of SRPGs. Even the DS has a decent small collection of them. But now 'you and your friends believe' that handhelds aren't good for them, even though you yourself haven't tried one. I'm saying it works. Who's right? Like I said when we first talked of games, it's opinion. I gave you a list of 5 games that keep me returning to my PSP. You're not going to convince me my opinion is wrong. And I do play portable games hours upon hours. Sometimes I do it from home, even, choosing it (or my DS) over 360 or PS3 games.
not at all. If I'm going to play a rpg i want to be able to play it. I don't want to have to stop to find a wall plug if i'm into it . My ds will give me about 9 hours of game time without a charge. My psp will give me 3-4 hours . If i'm going to play a rpg on the psp i'm going to have to do it at home where i can easily charge my battery. It be great playing one on the bus and getting stuck in traffic and boom there goes the psp .. out of juice.
But of course some people will argue for anything and if you want to play rpgs on it thats great , to bad the market isn't agreeing with you .
don't know your friends. I don't know if they exist or not, I don't know if what you're saying is true or not. It's hearsay, anecdotal evidence of the worst sort. At worst, it's untrue. At best, it doesn't mean a thing. Neogaf isn't much better, but at least both of us can go there and see that indeed, whenever a thread about PS3 sales pops up there's endless bitching about the PS3's lack of BC. And please, let's keep console wars bias nonsense out of this, okay
I'm pointing out peoples opinions and they all have diffrent ones. Gaf is a single website that attracts a small subset of users. They represent the hardcore gamer and at this point the psp has already attracted the majority of them . That is not who sony needs to target . They need to get people who didn't think of buying a psp before or if they did filed it away to get something else .
i have a friend who takes his psp with him every where he goes , but that is 1 friend. There are many more of us in the group that constantly has an ipod with them and a smaller group that has their ds with them at all times. I'm a zune user and out of my group only 2 of us have them with us at all times. Now notice that all but the ds group uses their device for music and video. So why isn't the psp the one everyone brings ?
The 360 can also play most Xbox discs, so what's your example, again? If, before Ninja Gaiden 2 came out I wanted to play some ninja gaiden with the 360 controllers, I could pop the game in. If I didn't have that, I'd have to keep my xbox hooked up, which, given its size, would have been a PITA. Now map that onto the PSP. You're saying no one plays PSP games, but the Japanese would beg to differ. Putting them on an online service means people have to rebuy their games, it means that their existing library is useless on the new handheld. These aren't mutually exclusive things, no console launches with a good selection of games across all genres.
yes and at launch there were a handfull of bc games for the 360 and it didn't stop it from selling . People want new games with a new system or whats the point of buying one .
Umd is a failure for movies and its way to clunky and slow in 2008 to be even considered for a future 2009/2010 device. They need to move past it when they move to another system. Its just going to add un needed space to a console and as long as they stayed tied down to it they will be behind the curve .
So you're not the person they should target. You have heavy bias against the system already. For me, all they need for me to use my PSP more is compelling software. For Japan, all they needed was compelling software. Why is the US so different?
Why not , i bought a psp its the system itself that made me fall out of love with it. I bought one last christmass after the redesign and still many of the things from launch are valid complaints . I'm not going to spend another $200 bucks on the system esp not only 2 years after i bought one .
Btw in japan its still has yet to be proven that as monster hunter drops in the charts the psp will continue to out sell the ds . You should really wait and see what happens when sonys line up sinks back down to what it normaly is before you make any judgment . We all know that another nsmb or brain age or whatever will boost ds sales again in japan .
That at least gives a basis for discussion.
