PSP Game Sales Slump in Japan as DS Games Soar
There's no doubt who's winning the battle for game sales in Japan. In the light of a paltry selection of recent releases, the PSP can muster only 4 games in the top 50 sellers, while the DS has 6 in the top 20 alone.
The spring season is typically slow for game sales, but Nintendo seem to have got things right, releasing Nintendogs right before the golden week of national holidays in Japan.
Meanwhile the DS surged ahead of the PSP in terms of units sold.
Is the sheen coming off the PSP in its mother-country?
I Ain't No Fanboy But Nintendo going downhill these days i reckon ...
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Originally Posted by 1timeuser
we have been over this here on DCEMU about 1000000000000 times, and seeing that you have a history of trying to flame people new to our forum im not going to hold back much here.
Blood, guts, gore, and bad language dont make good games. Gameplay, story, and inovation does. Nintendo has tested this theory time and time again in games like: SUPER MARIO, SMASH BROTHERS, THE LEGEND OF ZELDA, ETC, and even third party companies, such as Capcom produces Viewtiful Joe (Which for no reason carried a Teen rating), Megaman was never exactly the Grand Theft Auto of the day either. Calling a colorfull, inovative game for any age a KID GAME is just ignorant. If half the people would shut their mouths and play the games for a while they wouldnt have such an idiotic opinion.
check out: Mario Kart, The Legend of Zelda, Wario, etc and if you dont get addicted to these games... well your opinion dosnt matter much here anymore.
Finaly, you can read in my signature that im not much of a speller, but at least I try. Perhapes you could try a little harder to type so we can read things eh?
no shizzle has a good point, Nintendo have started to go downhill since the GC, the GC was awful, not graphically and the performance of the games on it, but just the overall library of the GC was bad, meaning the 'Exclusive To GameCube' games:
Metriod Prime i did not like (before you all start flaming me - i really did give the game a chance, but i didn't like it at all)
the Zelda wasn't too bad although i didn't really give it a proper chance since it didn't draw me back to it at all,
Mario Kart was crap and VERY boring, the N64 one is 100 times better,
Mario Sunshine was ok i suppose but not half as fun as Mario 64.
The only game that impressed me and had me going back for more was the Metal Gear Remake, which was fantastic ... other than that, all the games were either crap or better on the XBOX ...
the same can be said for the DS now, only one game on that is worth getting (Mario DS) and none of the others look good or appeal to me personally, I dont have Mario DS yet because A) I'm skint (lol) :p and B) i can play it on my N64 or my XBox anytime i want - the reason the DS is doing better in Japan is that they like different kinds of games to us really, they like stupid little cutesy anime-style turd and they have more games out on the DS than anywhere else in the world - games that are not out in the US and UK because it doesnt appeal to the US / UK market .... the same goes for Japan, when GTA PSP comes out, its guaranteed to be a massive hit, whereas in Japan it only appeals to a select few and won't do as well over there,
Same goes for many types of games, Japanese do not necessarily like games we do, such as Action FPS games and such, and most of us won't like most of the games that come from there!
so to close the opinion, its a simple case of 'each to their own' - everybody prefers a certain type of game, just because you do not like their preferences doesn't mean u can criticise them
PS - when i say 'you' i aint referring to u 1timeuser - im referring to any random person :D
