Actually, for all practical purposes, the PSP has already won.
Media create weekly sales in Japan for Jan. 24-30 show PSP at 71k, DS at 42k.
This makes the 3rd straight week PSP has outsold the DS in Japan, and the margin keeps growing. People in Japan say it's still very difficult to find a PSP, so if the supply was there, who knows how bad they would be outselling DS. More or less, it's fairly unlikely the DS will ever outsell the PSP in Japan, or any competitive market, ever again. March 24 will be the last week the DS is the top selling handheld in the USA.
The fact DS is being outsold in Japan within 4 weeks of PSP's release is pretty stunning. Most people knew the PSP would crush the DS, but I dont think anybody expected it to be this fast.
Nintendo is already back to the drawing board, with rumours of a portable gamecube swirling. The DS should be discontinued for all practical purposes within a year. However, personally I feel this will be too little, and far too late. The essential problem is Nintendo is not willing to lose money on hardware, and therefore simply cannot compete. Lets say they do make a portable Gamecube, well, it may be a little more powerful than PSP, since one would assume the Gamecube is, but can they put a high qaulity screen on it like PSP? What about Cube disc streaming, which will kill battery life? By that time, PSP will really be hitting stride, and if they wanted, with a year of mass production done, Sony could drop the PSP to $99 probably. At that point the thing would be so mainstream Nintendo would have little chance.
It's still terrible, man. 5 minutes I think.
I heard the screens can blow up and kill you, too.
Dont buy it, dude, that's YOUR best bet. Whatever you do guy, dont buy it.
LOL. Who cares if you dont buy it. DS still doooomed.
The twist and shoot stuff is made up by Nintendo fanboys, and their accomplices like slashdot. The system has no more problems than any other, in fact far less dead pixels than the DS.
Battery life is not 2 hours, LOL. I can see where you're coming from.
What are you talking about man? Most people who have seen the PSP in person positively rave about it. Many online writeups have mentioned this incredible, got to have it wow factor when you see it in person.
It looks sleek and modern as hell. If you want me to link a picture of a DS and PSP next to one another I will, but be warned, it isn't pretty. The DS looks like a joke next to the PSP. It looks like it was designed in the 50's or something by comparison.
"WTF? I don't own a PSP yet, and with SCE's President telling me that if I buy one, I'll have to "adapt" to their failure, I don't think I will *ever* buy one."
LOL. You're funny man. Guess what, dont buy one then. Who cares. It's still going to crush the DS and sell a zillion.
As to the parent issue (faulty hardware), it's part of a slam campaign by Nintendo fanboys. Most of the online media, including slashdot, has participated in it. I wonder how many PSP headlines could be classed as negative towards PSP on slashdot? Pretty much most that I have seen so far.
I saw all the same things regarding the Xbox. Same type of stories around it. It succeeded anyway, just like PSP will.
I'm sure that frankly, the DS is far less reliable. It has a touch screen for one thing. It also has many more dead pixels.
If you cant point to a real study that PSP has more defects than DS, go ahead. Otherwise, return to your speculation.
Also, there are reviews on PSP games. In Japan, and probably a few on import software in America. PSX extreme has some. All have been in the 8+ range pretty much. If you think reviews are going to dampen the PSP crushing the DS, wrong.
Oh and I got news for you guys, the DS is already defeated. Although it was obvious it would be from over a year ago.
It has now been outsold in Japan for the last three straight weeks (Japan posts weekly sales figures). The last time, Jan. 24-30, by about 30k units, 71k vfor PSP vs 42k for DS.
And this despite it is still nearly impossible to find PSP's for sale.
The fact that PSP is outselling DS within 4 weeks of it launching in Japan just shows what stunningly awful hardware the DS is.
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Actually, for all practical purposes, the PSP has already won.
Media create weekly sales in Japan for Jan. 24-30 show PSP at 71k, DS at 42k.
This makes the 3rd straight week PSP has outsold the DS in Japan, and the margin keeps growing. People in Japan say it's still very difficult to find a PSP, so if the supply was there, who knows how bad they would be outselling DS. More or less, it's fairly unlikely the DS will ever outsell the PSP in Japan, or any competitive market, ever again. March 24 will be the last week the DS is the top selling handheld in the USA.
The fact DS is being outsold in Japan within 4 weeks of PSP's release is pretty stunning. Most people knew the PSP would crush the DS, but I dont think anybody expected it to be this fast.
Nintendo is already back to the drawing board, with rumours of a portable gamecube swirling. The DS should be discontinued for all practical purposes within a year. However, personally I feel this will be too little, and far too late. The essential problem is Nintendo is not willing to lose money on hardware, and therefore simply cannot compete. Lets say they do make a portable Gamecube, well, it may be a little more powerful than PSP, since one would assume the Gamecube is, but can they put a high qaulity screen on it like PSP? What about Cube disc streaming, which will kill battery life? By that time, PSP will really be hitting stride, and if they wanted, with a year of mass production done, Sony could drop the PSP to $99 probably. At that point the thing would be so mainstream Nintendo would have little chance.
It's still terrible, man. 5 minutes I think. I heard the screens can blow up and kill you, too. Dont buy it, dude, that's YOUR best bet. Whatever you do guy, dont buy it. LOL. Who cares if you dont buy it. DS still doooomed.
The twist and shoot stuff is made up by Nintendo fanboys, and their accomplices like slashdot. The system has no more problems than any other, in fact far less dead pixels than the DS. Battery life is not 2 hours, LOL. I can see where you're coming from.
What are you talking about man? Most people who have seen the PSP in person positively rave about it. Many online writeups have mentioned this incredible, got to have it wow factor when you see it in person. It looks sleek and modern as hell. If you want me to link a picture of a DS and PSP next to one another I will, but be warned, it isn't pretty. The DS looks like a joke next to the PSP. It looks like it was designed in the 50's or something by comparison.
"WTF? I don't own a PSP yet, and with SCE's President telling me that if I buy one, I'll have to "adapt" to their failure, I don't think I will *ever* buy one." LOL. You're funny man. Guess what, dont buy one then. Who cares. It's still going to crush the DS and sell a zillion.
As to the parent issue (faulty hardware), it's part of a slam campaign by Nintendo fanboys. Most of the online media, including slashdot, has participated in it. I wonder how many PSP headlines could be classed as negative towards PSP on slashdot? Pretty much most that I have seen so far. I saw all the same things regarding the Xbox. Same type of stories around it. It succeeded anyway, just like PSP will. I'm sure that frankly, the DS is far less reliable. It has a touch screen for one thing. It also has many more dead pixels. If you cant point to a real study that PSP has more defects than DS, go ahead. Otherwise, return to your speculation. Also, there are reviews on PSP games. In Japan, and probably a few on import software in America. PSX extreme has some. All have been in the 8+ range pretty much. If you think reviews are going to dampen the PSP crushing the DS, wrong.
Oh and I got news for you guys, the DS is already defeated. Although it was obvious it would be from over a year ago. It has now been outsold in Japan for the last three straight weeks (Japan posts weekly sales figures). The last time, Jan. 24-30, by about 30k units, 71k vfor PSP vs 42k for DS. And this despite it is still nearly impossible to find PSP's for sale. The fact that PSP is outselling DS within 4 weeks of it launching in Japan just shows what stunningly awful hardware the DS is.
The PSP is nothing but ripped by Slashdot. They hate it.