Hysteria Subsides as PSP Sales Prove Strong

It's quite interesting. Sony have dominated the market since 1995, and seem to do no wrong. And with the PSP they have produced one of the most elegant, beautiful electronic consumer goods I've had the pleasure to own. Yet it means nothing in the PSP/ DS "war" if people don't have a need for it. I have no idea why current or prospective gamers wouldn't ;), but is the handheld market really saturated with just Ninty fans? I just can't see it, not with the PS brand being so strong, and Sony now having their own vast army of fans.

When manufacturing speeds are up, and both DS and PSP are available in all territories, we'll see the true picture.

It'd be interesting to find out exactly what proportion of the sales figures has been imported into other countries that have been, so far, forsaken by Sony.

I'd reckon a fair percentage from both Jap and USA launches were imported straight out of there again. I know at least 6 people who did it in my social circle alone. I'm happy to wait and see personally.

the DS will be seeing allot more final fantasy than the PSP, they have already stated they plan on releasing 7-10 FF titles on the DS, with 2 or 3 for the PSP.

its clear where they stand. and what was that yu said b4? PSP gets a movie... so does my pocket pc... for 'free'.

i like the PSP and the DS alike, but the DS offers my something new. the PSP gives me my pocket pc with a playstation controller shimmed into it.

we will see, the games are whats going to win me over, and right now, there is a weak handheld library, PSP games feel rushed, DS games are too few in numbers.

What 7-10 final fanatsy titles? I know of final fantasy 3 and crystal chronicles but that's it.
About your pocket pc I bet it don't produce the same visuals as psp, 65,000 colors for your pocket pc and 16.77 million colors on psp. Plus wide screen format.

look up on gaming rumors, spong is a great site to start... Final Fantasy will be more prominent on the DS, not that i care, i have both the DS and PSP. and my PPC?... my new Dell has a res of sumthin like 640x???, comparable to an older computer monitor. nice and smooth like a babies rear. it also incudes a seperate 'video card' to produce 3d images. 2 mb vid card. 624 mhz cpu... not too shabby, considering its meant for organization.

i have nothing aginst the PSP, only sony, and the crappiness they bestoyed upon the manufacturing...

What crappiness do they bestoy on manufacturing if you mean the dead pixels well all lcd's have them including tv's and the ds had them. Also about final fantasy on ds, like you said their just rumors.

rumors, yes. but rumors rite from the mouth of the horse. i dont remember exactly what they said.

and to manufacturing crappiness? dust under the screen, sticky triggers, the square button issue (but thats with developing). there are people who have gotten hair. hair! i mean yes, dust under the cover... but hair? dirty factory to say the least. you'd think they'd keep the air a bit more sterile than that.

and to the dead pixels, dead pixels are an occurance, but you cant say that '4-5 are okay'. thats total B/S... samsungs monitors have a guarantee, one dead pixel, yu get a new free monitor. sony will say, oh no its okay... when yu compare the screen size, thats not even rite. and sony has included 2 screen models in the PSP, one by sharp, one by samsung. im not shure which is which, but one of them creates that ghosting effect, which is very apparent, also has faded colours, and a not so vivid picture. while the other screen is the exact opposite, vivid colors, yadda, yadda, yadda.

bottom line is, sony is not in it for the glory of handheld gaming, their in it to rip profits away from ninty and make a whack load of money while doing it. if sony truly was user friendly, they may want to start by making their support a bit more reasonable...

DS = PSP
PSP > Sony
Ninty > Sony

You could say the same thing about the home console market being saturated with Sony fans. ;P Seeings as there are people who purchase about 6 PS2s (not all at once, lol).

And neocarrillo, how about speaking objectively rather than sounding like a Sony fanboy? ;D It's all well and good saying "wurgh, PSP kick DS arse", but you could just as well say the same thing the other way around - if you were a Nintendo fanboy. :P

The truth is, nobody knows what's going to happen. Nintendo has the edge of experience, and the consumer pull - people associate Nintendo with quality in the handheld place (despite the majority of "cool", "hip", and "edgy" teens picking the PSP). However, Nintendo as a first party are not as yet promoting the unique abilities of the handheld, which could squander it. Then you have the shortage of games problem. The games Nintendo are showing seem very original, but the actual gamer appeal of "non-games" like Electroplankton and Puppy Times remains to be seen (I would buy them though =P).

The PSP is more desirable, it has the added bonus of being a portable media machine, and the graphics are top notch compared. But on the flip side, nobody's buying the games, instead just buying one because of the "it plays MP3s" novelty, which soon wears off on a convergence machine (how many of you play DVDs on your PS2 still instead of a proper DVD player? Honestly now). Games are more important than hardware to some degree, so people are buying PSPs like nobody's business right now - but once everyone that wants one has one, then what? Nothing. It's what killed SEGA's Game Gear in the long run, aside from the crappy battery :P

So yeah, objectivity is the key, lest you want to sound like a fanboy prat. ;)

haha nintendo fanboys are funny for pretending they have a psp :) silly people. honestly people that are ignorant and fail to know all the facts surprise me. psp is awesome. to deny its power is stupidity. yes im not using punctuation because i don't feel like it so don't use that as a way to attack. both have their good traits and bad so theres no use in saying one way or another. i for one prefer the psp. also as for why i say your ignorant? "blah blah samsung has this guarentee" obviously you didn't know that samsung won the subcontracting title to produce psp lcd screens. the sharp screens sold on japan units have no dead pixels and look brighter on the same scales. why did samsung get the deal? they gave a lower price. is it sony's fault? partially probably in some way you would say but in reality the same company you praised is the one producing the faulty screens. haha owned. :) now im gonna go play my psp now bye

[mrgarrison]haha what a retard [/mrgarrison]

True the psp isn't doing well in games right now but their taking their handheld baby steps now, give sony sometime, I bet when the psp hit's europe it will be cheaper and have more features then what we at the usa got, also better and more games.
The psp and ds could very well coexist in the future who knows.

Have to agree with you there about Sony being in it for the money.

Notice we've never been told why the PSP was delayed at the last minute which resulted in it not coming out in the same month as DS in March. Was it because Sony didn't want to go up against Nintendo at the same time outside of japan? Were they a bit scared of losing?

Dude good luck to you with your PSP, hope you have lots of fun. We all know how slinky sexy it is. How the games looks just like those on our PS2s but in smaller wide screen format. The evolution of the handheld would have gotten to this PSP quality eventually Sony just pushed it out earlier than Nintendo.

Some may look at DS and see N64 but to behonest N64 tech was never really exploited fully since many developer bailed on it and it's brave and some may say also stupid that Nintendo are taking the handheld evolution in steps with the DS. It's interesting that Sony got such high quality so quick which has me wondering if PSP is really a PS2 like emulator (my first thought but probably false info). Seems they've done an okay job on despite some gripes.

When it's time for GBA2 it will come, but PSP is here now and obviously i has a cool wow x factor because its the first time we have had such high quality on the move. My cousin has one and has already pitched his tent in Sony's camp (and yes I eagerly wanna play Ridge Racers but I'll wait til I get my PSP) and decided not to get a DS. Fairplay to him but I like to experience more games regardless of format. I need somethng more and DS is that for me, a PSP will plug another gaming gap later on. Each to their own mind.

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Yeah, but its only like two or three projects. I would settle for a direct port of any of the Final fantasy's, or heck even Vagrant Story with Ps one graphics. Now that would be cool.

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Then the only thing I can say Is YAY!

Dude how your gonna say sony is in it for the money. All company's are in it for the money, in my opinion nintendo is in it for the money more so than sony. Why else does nintendo come out with cheap products? so they don't lose money and just gain, that's why. Meanwhile sony makes the psp and sell's it for 250 when the device costs 400-500 bucks to make.
Sony is a business just like nintendo and microsoft but they are always looking out for the consumer, that's why they have gotten support from all game developers and consumers for over a decade.
Also about the comment that sony was affraid to come out at the sametime as ds, that's bullshit, sony came out no more then 2 weeks after ds in japan and sold 500,000 units in the month of december. If anything nintendo was affraid to wait for sony. The psp is alot more complicated and expensive to make than ds so of course it will take more time to get them to stores. The psp even sold 500,000 in it's first 2 days in the usa just like ds did in europe. Psp didn't sell out because we had 1 million psp's compared to the 500,000 ds had in stock.
The fact is that even though ds has had all this success nintendo knows it's only a matter of time when psp will overtake ds's market share. Just like ps1 and ps2 lead so will psp.
Dude I don't care if you hate sony or psp and love ds and nintendo. The fact that everyone on spong and everyone around the world needs to realise is that the psp is not gamegear, lynx, tiger, neo-geo and all the other handheld failures. This is sony makers of the most successful consoles in the history of video games, 1.

Well, Neo, they're lowering the price to $250, because people wouldn't pay $400 for it. Would you?
I'd still rather it be made out of cheap plastic like DS rather than whatever the hell the PSP is made of, purely because it's cheaper. I was only going to ever buy one anyway, and that was going to be the cheapest or the first one out, and the DS was both. I'm too poor to get a PSP as well.

Well if you can afford a xbox than you can buy a psp. Also my point on the 250 price point was pointing out how sony is willing to lose money to make money.

Yeah I know I got an XBox and stuff, but I can't see much point in having both anyway. And most of my gaming is done at home in front of a console, not a sub-par graphics handheld on the bus. For that I only need one handheld. Plus money's getting a bit tight round here, as I'm going to uni next year.