Is the PSP a success or a failure?

Saturday, Apr. 7 2007 | Author: Griffith

I know that this will tingle many Nintendo fanboys’ spines, however, the PSP is a success. Well, at least according this analyst’s impression. According to him, the only way that you can consider the PSP a failure, is if you compare it to the Nintendo DS’ sales:

We forecast that the global installed base of PSP users will be around 29 million at the end of 2007, generating $1.9 billion in software sales. Lifetime software sales at the end of 2007 will be around $4.5 billion. If this is “failing,” then failure just got a huge brand makeover.

As a PSP owner, I have to admit that in terms of innovative software, the PSP has seen better days. I know I can still run homebrew with the latest custom firmware version, but still, I wish that Sony and the programmers would settle for some standard and allow users to exploit the PSP’s capabilities a bit more with different programs.

[Via kotaku]

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One Response for "Is the PSP a success or a failure?"

BRiAn /

April 8th, 2007 at 11:26 am
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COnsidering this is only a ‘forecast’, and the fact that DS is the dominating handheld (by a long shot) in the marketplace shows that the PSP effort barely rivals Sega’s attempt to dethrone the GameBoy with the GameGEar. WOn’t happen. ANy statistics out there that show the Psp (as it stands currently against the DS) beating the DS is false and fanboy effort to uphold a failing system. SUre, moneywise its a good investment, but since when to SOny fanboys care about games?

(POkemon Ds hasn’t even hit yet, so be prepared for a real backlash PSP owners :) )