Kugetsu wrote:
I doubt that would break them. They can sell a little over half as much as the DS and still make about the same profit. In the first couple few days of sales, rabid fanboys make up a lot of the purchases. Most of them aren't going to care about the extra bit of money they have to spend on it, which isn't a bad deal at all if you add it up. Some of the products included are staples (well, really only the Memory Stick), and some of them... why do they see the need to releases them with it? Also, PSP has a much larger variety games coming out at release, which will seriously boost sales, whether the library is mediocre or not. More games generally means better sales because they appeal to a more broad spectrum of gamers.
I highly doubt that the PSP will flop, at least at the beginning, and that's the only objective that Sony even needs to make. The point isn't selling more than the DS, it's successfully staying in the market with the DS. As long as there are people that are just going to buy something because it is by their favorite company, consoles are going to do fairly well.
I still haven't found a single game on either system that interests me, except for Dynasty Warriors on PSP, but I'm not going to buy a console for one game. I don't see any possible way that the PSP could ever sell more than the DS, but I don't see it flopping over something that could easily change in the future. If in the occasion sales aren't great, they will probably change it.
You also have to remember the targeted audience that each company is appealing to. While this isn't universally true, the DS is aiming for a younger audience and the PSP is targetting people that have jobs and the money to pay for these kind of things. I am concerned on some of the games that both sides are attempting to produce, in fact, I thought both could do better. Looking at the lineup of both, I just don't see anything (that includes games that haven't been released) that's worth buying either system for.
Yay! I finally made a post that wasn't completely cruel to biaseness (is that a word?).
I agree. I read an article somewhere, probably Gamespot or Gamefaqs (the only sites i visit regularly) that the Sony is currently making a small loss on every console sold but it's the sales of their software and other stuff which in the long run would make them a profit. So i wouldn't expect the PSP to going anytime soon.
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