What Japan thinks of the PSP and DS battle

[PSPFR3AK]

i think ds is for simple people who want easy use and easy games
psp instead is a multifunctional hyper complicated earthshattering device
have you tried to install the new devhook
try to explain this to a ds user
and all you would see is or or or not or

it makes me wonder does paris hilton own a ds

she owns a PSP

[belialone]

i bet she got a modchipped one
damn she is so rich
and so hot
and so rich
and so...
...

i just have to go somewhere

[Makaveli777]

Im surprised paris dont have a pink one lol. Anyway I use my psp everyday for many things too.
I play commercial games
Homebrew
Web browser (yea I actually use it)
MP3s
a little bit for videos but thats a lot of space.

[the_eternal_dark]

she owns a PSP

She probably has no idea what it really is though...

[irongiant]

via pspfanboy

Not even a Sony fanboy can avoid admitting that the Nintendo DS is selling at a much brisker pace than the PSP.

Well you can't argue with facts. I think so far considering the issues they've had and the retail price of the PSP it's doing remarkably well. In the US PSP sales aren't too far off DS sales which is impressive.

Only 10.7% of people surveyed have a PSP, compared to Nintendo DS's 32.3%.
14.7% of PSP owners use it every day. (Do you?)

10% is still a helluva lot of people if that is representative of Japanese gamers as a whole.

Although both the PSP and DS are portable, the number one place the system is played is at home: 94.2%. Personally, the subway is where I get most of my PSP playing done.

Makes sense, i know people who's kids have the DS and they play them at home while the parents are watching Coronation Street!

A shocking number of people have not used any of PSP's non-gaming features: 43.1%

What's shocking about that? The PSP gives people a choice but obviously being a Portable Playstation gaming is at the heart of it so no surprise to see buying it mainly as a gaming device.

25.2% of surveyed individuals want a PSP in the future, versus the DS's 59.4%. Only 20.3% of people want a PS3. Only 15% want a Wii. (But 17% want both.)

Interesting figures there, both the PSP and PS3 are more desirable that the Wii. Though the actual sales figures appear to say the reality is different.

Can Sony increase the PSP's desirability by focusing solely on games? Are you like the Japanese: do you not find value in PSP's non-gaming functionality?

They're in the good position that it's still selling well at a relatively high price point, if and when it gets a decent price cut, sales will go way up. I listen to music, play games and watch vids so yes.

[Cap'n 1time]

What's shocking about that? The PSP gives people a choice but obviously being a Portable Playstation gaming is at the heart of it so no surprise to see buying it mainly as a gaming device.

I think what is shocking about was the fact that so many people seem to claim "The DS is just a game device! the PSP is an entire media center!". That is true to an extent as not alot of people dl the apps that give the DS that sort of functionality or buy the software to play mp3's and watch videos. and the psp offers these options out of the box.

anyway i think the surprise was that a lot of people do not take advantage of its options and seem to treat it only as a game device. whats wrong with that? nothing. it is just sort of surprising as sony sort of makes a big fuss over its other abilities.

[PSPFR3AK]

She probably has no idea what it really is though...

[the_eternal_dark]

I think what is shocking about was the fact that so many people seem to claim "The DS is just a game device! the PSP is an entire media center!". That is true to an extent as not alot of people dl the apps that give the DS that sort of functionality or buy the software to play mp3's and watch videos. and the psp offers these options out of the box.

anyway i think the surprise was that a lot of people do not take advantage of its options and seem to treat it only as a game device. whats wrong with that? nothing. it is just sort of surprising as sony sort of makes a big fuss over its other abilities.

When I try to tell everyone that, they look at me as if I were a moron...

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