The PSP is far From a Failure

[mavsman4457]

Wraggster was simpy stating that it's target audience is females and homos

Hahahaha, he's so politically correct.

[nielsss]

Son, you're gonna get it. That's right I called you son.

huh; lmfao

[fistikuffs]

Guys if you take a look around you'll see many men wearing pink clothes!! I'm not sure gay or girls will be too interested in it coz it's pink. Maybe teenage girls but that's it. Very funny comment tho!!

As for the psp being a failure...No Way!! But it's the emu's that really elevate it above the rest. it does have a few "must have" titles in my opinion but the extended use i get from emus makes me really happy that i own one.

[beardude]

Wraggster was simpy stating that it's target audience is females and homos

So when does Wraggster talk about the black version being made for african-americans? Hey! He can even use the N-word, coz you know that's so funny.

[Uruz 6]

But I wonder.. why the psp didn't sell well in japan?
I've studied nintendo's case and I don't get it, how come they have such a huge grip on the japanese market? sony and microsoft are there as well and we all see, from time to time, those market sales updates on this site (where they get totally trashed by the DS).

By the way, GBA emulation might actually be one of sony's strategies to make nintendo lose power;
that's right lately their firmware were kinda lame to hack, don't you think? (2.71 got emulated rater quickly, and now the 2.80) of course the psp isos are still a bother to 'em.

[jhontikis]

I dont, as well, think Iso's are problem.
How can you explain DS's succees against that there is a way you can run Iso's of games on it as well using memory card converter?
The simple cause could only be the imaginative games DS has, and the reason that Nintendo's are long time in bussiness.

[jwilds73]

You'd be surprised at how stupid the general population is my friend.. Why do you think certain games sell well?

So that's why Blockbuster and Hollywood Video has a million copies of every sport title but only one copy of Final Fantasy or any of the other decent non sports games. Same goes for movies they got a whole shelf of Stephen Seagal direct to video crap or every Black comedy and just a few copies of decent movies.

[mavsman4457]

By the way, GBA emulation might actually be one of sony's strategies to make nintendo lose power;
that's right lately their firmware were kinda lame to hack, don't you think? (2.71 got emulated rater quickly, and now the 2.80) of course the psp isos are still a bother to 'em.

That's actually a pretty good idea but I think if they wanted to do it then it would have been fullspeed for a long time now. If they really want to give a blow to Nintendo they will send spies to aid in the development of a touchscreen overlay with these guys, http://psp.nixlabs.net/ and they would make a DS emulator for PSP. Then with a few more "slip-ups" of putting homebrew links on their connect site Nintendo would be out of business.

[roaddogg2k2]

With this note, will there ever be a way to completely lock out homebrew on a psp?
I doubt it with fantastic coders like fanjita and ookm, but, is the possibility there i ask?

[daCuk]

That's actually a pretty good idea but I think if they wanted to do it then it would have been fullspeed for a long time now. If they really want to give a blow to Nintendo they will send spies to aid in the development of a touchscreen overlay with these guys, http://psp.nixlabs.net/ and they would make a DS emulator for PSP. Then with a few more "slip-ups" of putting homebrew links on their connect site Nintendo would be out of business.

It will take more than a glorified media player with games only for 18-34 male gamers to dethrone the handheld king.

In the same way Sony was smart enough to give developers the best conditions for game developers to profit (beginning with PS1), Nintendo was smart enough to know that portable games have to be adapted to quick, fun sessions, not long, battery exhausting sessions of the-same-game-I-am-playing-at-my-TV-console.

BTW, I don't think Sony is doomed with PS3...they just need to decrease the price of it.