How well is psp doing?
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The battery life issue is better solved with extra phone batteries than with whole extra devices having their own batteries.
The battery life issue is better solved with extra phone batteries than with whole extra devices having their own batteries.
I think LB hit the nail on the head with his mobile-phone comment. The PSP is a great games machine, but I wouldn't want to carry one around everywhere plus a phone, plus my 40gb MP3 player. My GBA-SP sits at home collecting dust because of this. However, if I could carry a PSP2 as my phone, plus play games, as well as my MP3 player, I'd get one in a flash. I'm sure many others on the fence would, too.
Having said that, I'm surprised at people I see buying a PSP. A cheap-ass friend of mine picked one up the other day purely for homebrew. So who knows? Maybe it has enough as it is. I'm sure the PSP will take off more once the PS3 hits, and has additional functionality with a PSP connected.
Having said that, I'm surprised at people I see buying a PSP. A cheap-ass friend of mine picked one up the other day purely for homebrew. So who knows? Maybe it has enough as it is. I'm sure the PSP will take off more once the PS3 hits, and has additional functionality with a PSP connected.
typoEDR said:
Look at the sales charts. Whichever newly released games that are in the top charts are most likely the ones worth buying.
http://www.the-magicbox.com/topten.htm
There are only 2 PSP games in the top 30.
Fast, arcade-like action gameplay suits portable gaming habits and would be the foundation for the ideal library of a handheld: games like Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Sonic Adventure, Virtua Tennis, Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA, NFL 2K, Rez, Virtual ON, Soul Calibur, Sega Rally, NBA 2K, Space Channel 5, Dead or Alive and even more complex games that have a relatively quick tempo for their genre like Shenmue and Grandia.
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Lazy8s said:Fast, arcade-like action gameplay suits portable gaming habits and would be the foundation of the ideal library for a handheld: games like Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Sonic Adventure, Virtua Tennis, Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA, Rez, Virtual ON, Soul Calibur, Sega Rally, Space Channel 5, Dead or Alive and even action hybrids like Shenmue and Grandia.
Oh, man, I remember that sucker from the DC Emulation forums... It's probably larger than the system itself.
BTW, Virtua Tennis is awesome on the PSP.
PC-Engine said:
It won't sell because there will be little promise for new games.
For instance, I'm going to get a DS this Xmas, not just for the catalogue of current games but also for the promise of better ones. The DC just doesn't have a deep enough library to satisfy enough people to make it worth it imo.
PC-Engine said:
I see this as being very homebrew friendly, which is a good thing, but I don't know if it would be adequate to play the old DC library. Now, if Sega/Sammy announced new software along with this portable, it could be quite intriguing, but even then I don't think it would be a huge success (Sega's fanbase is dwindling over these past few years).
PC-Engine said:
I saw the numbers and disagree with your rather simplistic interpretations. I don't think you can count the number of entries in top 50 and say (i) Games A and B are shovelware because they don't appear on that chart, and/or (ii) PSP is not doing well because only 2 entries appear in top 50.
(i) The numbers are for the Japan market. Does the US market show the same picture ?
(ii) Looking at the specific games, some (many) of them are rather kiddish... like Pokemon, Jump Superstars, Dragonball Z, Tamagotchi, etc. ... Perhaps in Japan, kids forms a larger market than adult gamers ? Regardless, I can't get into those games anymore. So...
"Whichever newly released games that are in the top charts are most likely the ones worth buying."
is a wrong advice for me at least.
I stand by my comments that Lumines, MGA, GTA, Socom are great mobile games. Besides PSP is the second best selling console that week. So it's definitely doing well.
