So basically I haven't touched my PSP in decades. I was thinking of getting Lumines II, as the first is pretty much the only thing worth getting, but nowadays I don't even know where my PSP is. I've played all the GTAs already; you can't tell me that the PSPs killer app is a port. I don't even see how Ridge Racer, Wipeout Pure, or LocoRoco got higher than 9s on IGN unless the staff was just completely enamored by the larger screen when RR and Wipeout were first released (which I would be OK with). To think I could've saved myself some coin and gotten a DS Lite + 2 games...
"December 8, 2006 - According to a new Famitsu Marketing survey, Sony's PlayStation Portable is getting walloped in Japan by Nintendo's DS. In November alone, the PSP sold a mere 86,000 units compared to nearly 550,000 DS Lites. More shocking are numbers for the first 11 months of the year, which show that Nintendo may have all but closed the door on PSP in Japan. The DS and DS Lite have sold more than 7.5 million units so far this year, with PSP selling just 1.6 million units.
Further troubling for Sony's portable system are its software sales in comparison to Nintendo. PSP has sold 2.8 million games to date this year, while Nintendo has sold 27 million games. This is what is referred to in business as a clobbering.
The battle is a bit closer in the U.S., though Nintendo retains a strong lead month-to-month. In November, likely the busiest sales month of the year, twice as many DS Lites were sold as PSPs."
By the way. I believe..
DS:PSP::Wii:PS3
As sad as that may be.
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Like I said earlier this week:
I'll call the PSP a must have portable system when it gains more exclusive original titles. Personally, the only titles that interest me are the Metal Gear games, LocoRoco, and Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror. Maybe. That doesn't necessarily constitute a must have system in my book (especially when the cost of that system is $200+, and games retail for $40-$50). The PSP tries to do a lot of things, but seems to fall short in almost every effort.
None of this applies to me, because I need Portable Ops in the same way that another man needs water or hot pockets or something equally necessary.
I love how IGN concludes their article with
"Despite having weaker sales numbers compared to DS, the PSP had a strong year in terms of quality software. Nine of the twelve PSP games to receive a 9.0 or higher from IGN were released in 2006."
As if their scores mean shit.
Let's compare the portable games of 2006.
DS- NSMB, Tetris DS, Kirby Squeak Squad, Castlevania: PoR, Contact, Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime, Bomberman Land Touch!, Final Fantasy 3, Yoshi's Island DS, Elite Beat Agents, Children of Mana, Touch Detective (which was severely underrated), Starfox DS, Clubhouse Games, Megaman ZX, Age of Empires DS, BBA, Brain Age, Super Princess Peach, Electroplankton, Cooking Mama, Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2, Pokemon Ranger, and Pokemon Mystery dungeon.
PSP: Portable Ops, Gitaroo Man Lives!, Lumines II, GTA: LCS (now on PS2 for 20 dollars), GTA: VCS (50 dollar portable title that will be ported to the PS2 eventually), Tekken: Dark Resurrection, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, LocoRoco, Killzone: Liberation, Daxter, Lenneth, MGS: Digital Graphic Novel, Mega Man: Powered Up, Gradius Collection, Every Extend Extra, and MGA2.
Half of the PSP list is composed of ports/compilation titles.
Yeah, the DS basically blows the PSP out of the water.
I still don't really think the PSP is a terrible system by any means, though. Probably not worth the price of admission when you get down to it, but it DOES have some really good titles (Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Mega Man: Powered Up, Metal Gear Ac!d 1+2, the GTA series, Killzone: Liberation, DJ Max, Lumines, Every Extend Extra, and those are just the exclusives I could think of off the top of my head). The problem as mentioned is that a lot of the games available are either ports or watered-down versions of things you can get on consoles. Nevertheless, there are quite a few solid games, and if MGS:PO ends up selling well, I think we can expect some really nice titles along the line. I also suspect that we'd all love our PSPs a lot more if we didn't have iPods, because it also has some really nice multimedia features, not to mention web browsing.
I also agree that we're probably going to be seeing a situation similar to the DS:PSP analogy in the Wii:PS3 battle. They're basically direct parallels, actually.
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