joystiq.com — [Nintendo and their DS] are appealing to the same audience that Game Boy has always appealed to. And if you look at the adoption rate of the DS over the first 17 months, not only does it trail the PSP but it also trails their other platforms ... - Sony VP Jack Tretton-Wow does this guy not know how to count or read ?
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lupingladeSep 24, 2006
sony gets sadder by the day?
diggeredooSep 24, 2006
oh joy, more video game 'news'...wait a minute...STFU already.
recklessxSep 24, 2006
Looking at the 18 months after launch of each system, the PSP sold 5.30 million units in America. Furthermore, while the DS has been an unbelievable success in Japan, in North America since the PSP launched it's outsold the DS, which sold roughly 5 million units to 4.1 million units.Plus, not everyone hates the PS3. Most of the people are coming out of TGS satisfied with Sony feel that they delivered with their games and info from private meetings.
cal01Sep 24, 2006
Nicely written. ++
raindog469Sep 24, 2006
It's entirely possible that after 17 months, the PSP had shipped more units to North America than the DS had sold. Sony doesn't release actual sales figures, so we'll never have an apples-to-apples comparison.But that was after 17 months. Now it's 22 months, and what this guy is saying comes off as "Oh yeah? Well, six months ago we were still ahead!"
nexus85Sep 24, 2006
If anyone is losing audience, it's Sony, at least in europe. High pricing, late release and some kind of arrogancy around them seeming to belive they can surf on the popularity wave of PS2 forever.
techlinksSep 24, 2006
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.PSP outselling DS?
modsuperstarSep 24, 2006
I'm agreeing with you on the expanded market. I have now 8 different friends who have bought a DS after I purchased one. I got one, then another friend, then his 2 brothers, then when other friends saw how awesome the DS was they picked one up as well. Now most of my friends who bought one also have girlfriends of the non-gamer variety who plays the DS more then the friend that bought it. These girlfriends are the ones who would play online flash games but now play DS instead. This definitely shows me they've managed to expand the market for handhelds, as many of these friends were also home console players(PS2) and not portable gamers.
methodiusSep 24, 2006
The only thing I hate more than fanboyism is, unfortunately, the response it often receives. Erubi, you make the Sony fanboys look like Nobel laureates by comparison.
macbookpromatSep 25, 2006
Yeah I realised that LSD and beer didn't mix to well when they said the PS3 would definately be the best ever console. And now they say PSP outsold DS. This just goes to prove that Sony is using the money to buy drugs and get high.