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DS, PSP Could Claim Supremacy in Console Wars
njkid1 passed us another link to a GameDaily article, this one quoting analysts at DFC Intelligence as seeing a sort of usurpation of the console space by portable games. With the DS consistently outselling almost every other system on the market since last year, it's possible that the DS may become the best-selling system 'of all time'. Moreover, portable consoles may actually grow to have a larger market share than their more expensive, high-def cousins. "This comes from DFC's latest report on the portable gaming market, which the firm predicts will exceed $10 billion in worldwide revenue this year, led by the DS. DFC said that the PSP will 'establish a solid position in the marketplace' but that much of the Sony portable's fate will depend on how much effort Sony Computer Entertainment decides to put into promoting the platform over the next few years."
Ok... the DS is a huge huge success... but PSP? It shouldn't even be in the same paragraph as the DS. It's sales are terrible.
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Umm, isn't that your job? Shouldn't you have started out with "My studio recently shipped the greatest PSP game ever"? I could be wrong, but I thought it was the game studios that were supposed to release kick ass games. If you put out a decent game for the PSP, instead of the countless ports I see laying around, I'll buy it. If there's 20 million of us sitting around with PSPs, you'll sell quite a few.
Perhaps its because your games suck?
Locoroco, GTA, Tekken, and wipeout are great PSP games they caught my eye and I bought them but on the whole PSP games do suffer. When a developer takes the time to develop a proper PSP game like the ones listed they rock and they stay high in the charts forever (last time I checked game excusing wipeout all three were in the top ten.) The problem is multiplatform releases with awfull porting and rubbish games.
I own Lego Star Wars 2, I didn't get the PS2 version because I was looking for a game for my PSP at the time. You can see Lego Star Wars is a great game I know it is because i bought it for the PS2 as well. But the PSP port has some serious flaws (like when you flick the device on I have to wait two to three minutes to resume my play) it will freeze for loading, their no audio, the list goes on and on. Alot of the multiplatform released PSP games I've bought suffer this problem, its like the developers have just tacked a few lines of code into the game to make it run on a PSP. GTA has an amazing PSP engine, its just WOW. Tekken looks better than my Tekken Tag on the PS2, Wipeout seems to be a game designed to take advantage of every feature built into a PSP. You want to sell take the time!
Locoroco is an example of a good game that has nothing to do with the PS2 or other ports, you can pick it up at the drop of a hat its simple but fun (Yes I know everyone things its really weird when they first see it) but instead of game developers seeing it and trying something similar they release their own version of Mercury which sucks. Other examples would be games like Ghost Rider where you can take you eyes of the screen and hit two buttons so you can get through the gameplay and see some story.
Your a game developer give me an original game, one that takes advantage of the PSP, that I can flick off from standby and play in seconds (umm like GTA,Tekken,Wipeout) that isn't anouther puzzle game. Oh some small advice if you have a low budget then most of the time the game won't sell that well, big games these days make it because of big budgets, thats not always true but its a start as it shows your taking the thing seriously. I currently own 12 PSP games (got one at launch) only 12 games from launch caught my eye, I got a PS2 two years before my PSP and own about 50/60 games. Perhaps this tells us something about the quality of games PSP devs are turning out? Oh and 21 million PSP's is abysmal? I am surprised that after all this time the PSP is still £179.99 but 21 million isn't bad by any means.
PS I am actually hugely pro PSP but there can be 6 months between a good game releases, which is ok for me since it takes me about 4/5 months to get through most PSP games.