How well is psp doing?
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it's unfortunate for sony that the xbox 360 is stealing most of the holiday buzz. on the plus side, there doesn't look like there'll be enough 360's to go around (by a longshot), so maybe they can pick up some "consolation prize" customers.bRoNx said:
@mech
if we believe the numbers from cube3d (psp sold), and the numbers from sony (psp shipped), then pc-engine is actualy correct. since sony shipped 4.13 million units amd sold 2.03 million units, most of them (ie more than half) are indeed sitting on store shelves. and he never said the psp wa a failure, he simply attacked sony's markerting. boasting about shipped numbers is pretty irrelevant. i'm sure nokia shipped plenty of ngage units to stores in the first year after launch, but you didn't see them bragging about it.
Guys, chill. Like the other gentleman mentioned, let's wait until after Christmas and re-evaluate the stocking situation. I don't think you can take a snapshot and conclude that things are not going well. Supply chain takes time to react and pan out.
I used to work in a consumer company where the Christmas sales is large enough to sustain the entire year's expense (so revenue in other months, though substantially lower, are mostly our profit). Keeping the retailers well-stocked at the lowest possible shipping cost (ship early !) is key.
According to gamesindustry.biz, UK is already short of PSPs. XB360 has its own fair share of fulfillment problems for pre-orders and replacements. So I doubt it'll be able to affect PSP or any other consoles that much.
I used to work in a consumer company where the Christmas sales is large enough to sustain the entire year's expense (so revenue in other months, though substantially lower, are mostly our profit). Keeping the retailers well-stocked at the lowest possible shipping cost (ship early !) is key.
According to gamesindustry.biz, UK is already short of PSPs. XB360 has its own fair share of fulfillment problems for pre-orders and replacements. So I doubt it'll be able to affect PSP or any other consoles that much.
I'm sorry but with people saying that psp is on the verge of being a gamecube sell-wise, I'm starting to think i shouldn't have bought it. It's like DS is selling even more than any other gameboy since the psp came along. I wonder what are sells like now in Japan... This is crazy! It's clear that psp is a better handheld and yet a ranky dink handheld keeps out...correction over-selling psp with mediocre games. sigh...Any other psp owner feeling this way?
overclocked
Veteran
I would think that when more games are released in 06 that PSP will start to do better.
The problem is the piracy also that ofcourse affects the software-sales.
Btw does anyone have any "guesstimated" numbers for pirates and i dont mean the ones that plays Nintendo on it.
The problem is the piracy also that ofcourse affects the software-sales.
Btw does anyone have any "guesstimated" numbers for pirates and i dont mean the ones that plays Nintendo on it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051216/tc_nm/media_psp_dc LOS ANGELES
On the movie side, analysts said it is becoming more common for films to release on DVD and on Sony's Universal Media Disc at the same time.
Underscoring the "adult" market for the PSP -- as well as pornography's role in early technology adoption -- Playboy.com offers video and picture downloads for the PSP. Numerous other Internet sites also offer porn downloads.
Dreamcast wasn't a better system than ps2 tech-wise. And it didn't have enough games.see colon said:
N64's controller, game cost, and lack to produce FMV's was the reason why it fell.
Gamecube had no games other than mario and zelda coming out for it.
3DO and Jaguar over priced, technically flawed systems with no install base.
Again, XBOX had no install base, few games and was big and ugly. It also came out too late, and the promise that XBOX was far more capable than ps2 was a lie. All that wait for what?
And Gamegear wasn't portable. I say this because of size and battery life. Plus you could not play it during the day due to the poor lcd.
That being said, what you've said does not apply to the DS/PSP "war". Here's way...
1.PSP is graphically noticably superior.
2.Does more than play games, similar to ps1 playing cd's and ps2 playing dvd's.
3. PSP has a great design.
4.PSP's install base is base on ps1 and 2, so that's in the bag.
5.PSP has the ablity to upgrade
6.Game's on psp don't cost much more than the competition
7.It's smaller than the competition
8.For what it displays and is able to do battery life is great.
The only thing i see is wrong is the price. DS has no bussiness selling like that, and i base that on what the PSP is. Boy i hope psp comes out with great games next year and put up the sell slack. And a price drop. I don't hate the DS, nor do i hope the worst of it. I just want an even race. I hope psp is able to catch up.
The battery life isn't great, period. Games give you a couple hours, some even less. Also, PSP is rather fragile by all accounts. PSP games cost from $15-$20 more than DS games; hardly pocketchange. Do you have any idea how many tacos you can buy with that much money?
I dunno, maybe people like the games? What a weird thing to say.
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Do you have a psp? Gta lcs which is the most tech driven tech game last 4 hours. 3-5 hours for a handheld game is good enough.
"Also, PSP is rather fragile by all accounts" I dropped mine in a warehouse. concret floors! and it fell out of my pocket at the crest of my jump. then i dropped it on the sidewalk. the only damage is the scuffs on the side. It's not that fragile. It shows that you dont have one, you know nothing about it, you've been saying that for the longest and its old.
"I dunno, maybe people like the games? What a weird thing to say." People complain about psp having ports, just look at animal crossing and mario cart. and they are worse than the originals.
"Also, PSP is rather fragile by all accounts" I dropped mine in a warehouse. concret floors! and it fell out of my pocket at the crest of my jump. then i dropped it on the sidewalk. the only damage is the scuffs on the side. It's not that fragile. It shows that you dont have one, you know nothing about it, you've been saying that for the longest and its old.
"I dunno, maybe people like the games? What a weird thing to say." People complain about psp having ports, just look at animal crossing and mario cart. and they are worse than the originals.
overclocked
Veteran
Great, then maybe PSP will FINALLY solve the health issues in the States!
Game Boy has established people's trust to deliver their favorite content for portables, and the DS is stocking up on uniquely playing software that's the refreshing originality people want.
As for Dreamcast, its design was more effective than PS2's several times over in major areas of performance, but the PS2 was more than a year newer and much more expensive.
As for Dreamcast, its design was more effective than PS2's several times over in major areas of performance, but the PS2 was more than a year newer and much more expensive.
mckmas8808
Legend
So I guess you people just don't care about the four or five PSP game threads that I started on here within the last 2 weeks.
pixelbox, i have both psp and ds so let me try help you with your frustration.
a handheld play session of 3h is fine. what's not fine is that after that the versatile psp is a .. dead powerless brick until the next recharge. not so with the ds - after 3-4h of gameplay it's still a game handheld.
sorry but you must be having some very lucky psp. i've seen unprotected psps die from a table drop (mine has survived a couple of accidents but always protected in a PGP case). the majority of psp owners feel uneasy re their consoles' durability and that's a fact of life. the handheld mobility aspect of the psp is a bit hampered exactly due to durability. ds, oth, is a fraking peace of military equipment compared to the psp. a friend of mine once said re thr gba sp, 'i dunno what i need to do to the little bugger in order to damage it' - well, the ds is just as good, and if you've ever seen the innards of a psp and those of a ds you'd easily see why.
wow, the last thing you can accuse the ds of is lack of original titles!
quite naturally, i spend most of my handheld playtime with the ds, but i'm still very happy with the software on the psp, alas not of the game software but of the versatile homebrew stuff (i could plug in quite a rant here about sony and the openness of the platform but i'll refrain myself). i do believe the psp is yet to be discovered by both publishers and developers alike. and, as funny as it may sound, by sony themselves.
pixelbox said:
a handheld play session of 3h is fine. what's not fine is that after that the versatile psp is a .. dead powerless brick until the next recharge. not so with the ds - after 3-4h of gameplay it's still a game handheld.
sorry but you must be having some very lucky psp. i've seen unprotected psps die from a table drop (mine has survived a couple of accidents but always protected in a PGP case). the majority of psp owners feel uneasy re their consoles' durability and that's a fact of life. the handheld mobility aspect of the psp is a bit hampered exactly due to durability. ds, oth, is a fraking peace of military equipment compared to the psp. a friend of mine once said re thr gba sp, 'i dunno what i need to do to the little bugger in order to damage it' - well, the ds is just as good, and if you've ever seen the innards of a psp and those of a ds you'd easily see why.
wow, the last thing you can accuse the ds of is lack of original titles!
quite naturally, i spend most of my handheld playtime with the ds, but i'm still very happy with the software on the psp, alas not of the game software but of the versatile homebrew stuff (i could plug in quite a rant here about sony and the openness of the platform but i'll refrain myself). i do believe the psp is yet to be discovered by both publishers and developers alike. and, as funny as it may sound, by sony themselves.
pixelbox said:There's only 2 games out the price of 50 dollars and the rest are 39.99, like ds.
Well to be fair though, I think quite a few DS games are actually 29.99, not 34.99 (at least here in the states). So you're right that the difference may not be the magnitude he mentioned but the difference is there unfortunately.
mckmas8808
Legend
Ty said:
Higher costing games will cost more to the customer. Get over it. And it's not that bad.
quest55720
Regular
mckmas8808 said:
Actually it is 50 bucks for a cut down port is down right rediculous. The DS and GBA price pricing is much more fair you get less so you should pay less. It still makes me sick I paid 50 dollars for burn out legends. That is the last time I pay home system cost for a hand held game.
The PSP has great internal hardware but there are problems with the system. The pricing of the hardware and games is outragous. The lack of original content hell lack of good content is also a major problem.
