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Ross Ridge said:
The Sony PSP isn't really a flop. It's by far the most successful gaming handheld not designed by Nintendo. (And not desgined to be a phone...) Western developers aren't paying that much attention to the Nintendo DS either, so that doesn't mean much.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/psp

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ds

GameFAQs has upcoming games lists for the platforms they cover. The NA PSP list does not even go half a page, meanwhile the JP PSP list fills the page and only goes out 2 weeks. The NA DS list on the other hand is full for all regions. The timing is bad on this since with the 3DS coming out companies are winding down their DS releases, but I think it still illustrates my point. The PSP list has been barren like that for over 2 years.

It's the most successful non-Nintendo handheld ever, but it's really only a successful platform in Japan. The only notable English language releases over the last year and a half have come from Sony itself, and they only release a few games a year.
 
ViRGE said:
It's the most successful non-Nintendo handheld ever, but it's really only a successful platform in Japan. The only notable English language releases over the last year and a half have come from Sony itself, and they only release a few games a year.
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In terms of titles, the Nintendo DS beats every other gaming platform by a wide margin. The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and even the Wii. They're all failures by your metric. Only the PC really rivals the Nintendo DS in terms of the raw number of titles being released, which shows you how much that means.

Is the PSP was a failure, a flop, in the US, you wouldn't find PSP games for sale in just about every store that sells video games.
 
Ross Ridge said:
In terms of titles, the Nintendo DS beats every other gaming platform by a wide margin. The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and even the Wii. They're all failures by your metric. Only the PC really rivals the Nintendo DS in terms of the raw number of titles being released, which shows you how much that means.

Is the PSP was a failure, a flop, in the US, you wouldn't find PSP games for sale in just about every store that sells video games.
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Okay. Then compare the PSP software release lists to the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, or hell the PS2. There's simply no software coming out for the PSP - there hasn't been for some time. When 3rd parties give up on a console long before it's deprecated, that's a failure in my book. All the other major consoles are successes by that metric, even with the 360/PS3 trailing the Wii by a good amount.
 
$250 is for the early Nintendo hardcore fans. When sales start slacking some it will get cut to around $199 and so on until it gets to the price point casual gamers will want one.
 
Is this the type of system like the PS3 where it will be hard to get at launch? And people who have one can resell it for big time profit?
 
I won't even look at a handheld >$200. Not worth it IMHO.

The DS lite @ $179.99 (IIRC) was a good deal for the hardware when it was launched. The 3DS is too much, and the PSP2 is too much.
 
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