[quote name='Thomas96']
basically, instead of saying the fight is over, I want to give the psp some great games and lets just see what impact it has on the market... what I'm starting to see is that DS fans (not you) don't like that, and don't want to see that... and I'm wondering now.. why is that? what are they worried about if a couple of decent games are released on a system that they considered dead and beaten? I wonder.....[/QUOTE]
Well let's be fair here for a second. You start a thread asking whether or not the PSP can catch the DS, and then get upset when people say that the PSP can't catch the DS? It's simply a statement of fact at the moment. The DS is insumountable in Japan and has been outselling the PSP by a fair margin (100,000+ units last month) since the release of the Lite. To claim conspiracy about people wanting to see the PSP dead in the water because they know that if it got more developer support it'd catch right up ignores what has happened so far. EA has essentially said they were shifting focus away from the PSP as has a number of other developers in favor of the DS. Almost all of the big Sony franchises, excluding Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo, and Ratchet and Clank, have appeared on the system but none of them have been incredibly impactful, sans GTA which sold around a million PSPs in the US alone. The PSP isn't dead in the water, but there are certainly enough sharks circling to call this fight for Nintendo.
If you want to understand why so many people want to bury the PSP, look at the facts. First off, new handhelds always take a ton of heat if they're not from an established handheld maker. Furthermore, this doubles each time there's a major issue with the system (battery life, brightness issues, bad game format, inability to insert games without unscrewing the system, cost, ugly design sidetalking, etc). The burden of proof always falls on the system even if it's from an established developer. Nobody gave the DS a pass at first because the GBA was a great system. The final thing is that a significant portion of gamers are fed up with Sony. Sony comes out with insane statements in press conferences, their systems almost always have significant issues out of the gate, they're exceptionally arrogant, and their systems have recently started using expensive propritary formats. People don't want to bury the PSP because it's the PSP. People want to bury the PSP because it's the Sony PSP.
I want to see great games on the PSP too. I just doubt that with it's current market penetration and positioning, most third party developers would rather gravitate to the DS, especially if they're based in Japan.
Plus, lay off on the whole "Only PSP owners should post in PSP threads" especially when this question directly addresses Nintendo.
basically, instead of saying the fight is over, I want to give the psp some great games and lets just see what impact it has on the market... what I'm starting to see is that DS fans (not you) don't like that, and don't want to see that... and I'm wondering now.. why is that? what are they worried about if a couple of decent games are released on a system that they considered dead and beaten? I wonder.....[/QUOTE]
Well let's be fair here for a second. You start a thread asking whether or not the PSP can catch the DS, and then get upset when people say that the PSP can't catch the DS? It's simply a statement of fact at the moment. The DS is insumountable in Japan and has been outselling the PSP by a fair margin (100,000+ units last month) since the release of the Lite. To claim conspiracy about people wanting to see the PSP dead in the water because they know that if it got more developer support it'd catch right up ignores what has happened so far. EA has essentially said they were shifting focus away from the PSP as has a number of other developers in favor of the DS. Almost all of the big Sony franchises, excluding Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo, and Ratchet and Clank, have appeared on the system but none of them have been incredibly impactful, sans GTA which sold around a million PSPs in the US alone. The PSP isn't dead in the water, but there are certainly enough sharks circling to call this fight for Nintendo.
If you want to understand why so many people want to bury the PSP, look at the facts. First off, new handhelds always take a ton of heat if they're not from an established handheld maker. Furthermore, this doubles each time there's a major issue with the system (battery life, brightness issues, bad game format, inability to insert games without unscrewing the system, cost, ugly design sidetalking, etc). The burden of proof always falls on the system even if it's from an established developer. Nobody gave the DS a pass at first because the GBA was a great system. The final thing is that a significant portion of gamers are fed up with Sony. Sony comes out with insane statements in press conferences, their systems almost always have significant issues out of the gate, they're exceptionally arrogant, and their systems have recently started using expensive propritary formats. People don't want to bury the PSP because it's the PSP. People want to bury the PSP because it's the Sony PSP.
I want to see great games on the PSP too. I just doubt that with it's current market penetration and positioning, most third party developers would rather gravitate to the DS, especially if they're based in Japan.
Plus, lay off on the whole "Only PSP owners should post in PSP threads" especially when this question directly addresses Nintendo.