Total Hardcore Gamer said:I doubt it will. They can bring handheld gaming out of the ghetto, but that doesn't mean everyone will follow.
No matter how long the amount of PSP exclusives/remakes have toppled the number of direct ports, they will still claim it's nothing but ports and sports 'til the end, as well as talk about how they aren't spending $50 on a handheld game when the norm has long since changed to $40 and most PSP games can be obtained for $15-$25.
Great PSP games will continue getting low scores for petty reasons(most of which lie in "It doesn't innovate the genre") which will screw the secondhand PSP game advertising.
They'll keep on saying that the PSP can't handle shooters even with Syphon Filter and MOH out and keep trying to insist that it's more of a multimedia device than it is a game system, and regardless of how many games it racks up that are in the high 70s-80 percentile people will still insist that it has no good games and introduces nothing new to the table.
And as long as Sony keeps the prices so high, no one is gonna attempt to stray away from the above ignorance... especially given that PSP advertising is nothing short of a total atrocity(if I hadn't been doing my research, and were relying only on commercials like the average consumer, I'd know of only about 8 psp games).
The fanboyism and bias are simply too large to stop now, so the PSP seems like it's pretty much just gonna linger to it's death.
It's a shame... especially considering that afterwards, it'll be back to playing GBA games on the DS and wading through waves of mini game compilations to get to an exceptional Castlevania or Final Fantasy title.
Andy787 said:
ASSHOLES
NomarTyme said:What so funny?
Lumines II, Killzone Liberation, MGS: PO, Gunpey, and GTA:VCS is a few now?
Oh I dunno...Tabris said:Seriousely, until the nbots started to get real vocal in sales threads and trolling PSP threads, when was Nintendo ever really trolled except from DrinkyCrow?
PSP 2006 holiday lineup - best handheld lineup ever?
Klaxon said:I´m literally so close (|--> |) to buy a new PSP.
F**k you, Sony!
Oni Jazar said:The only real problem with the PSP is the price.
Once Sony stops teasing with their damn bundle****s and actually puts the system at $150 then it'll sell like hotcakes. Unfortunately I don't see Sony dropping the price this year.
That is one kickass lineup and doesn't even include the PS1 games that are coming out this year.
drohne said:is the ds strictly for wapanese or is that a misrepresentation of its lineup? good lord. i haven't seen that much animu in one place since i took a wrong turn at the local borders and stepped into a minefield of cross-legged preteens reading manga paperbacks. and look what they've done to castlevania!
Andy787 said:
ASSHOLES
Pimpbaa said:You know who really wins this upcoming holiday season? People who own both.
ProphetZG said:Children of Mana is awful IMO. Be sure you like it before you buy it.
As for PSP - superb lineup. No doubt about it, even the most insane PSP haters will have trouble spinning this lineup negatively. The old "no good games" mantra is not only dead, but decayed and eaten by worms at this point.
ORANGUTAN said:How much does piracy affect PSP software sales? I see charts that have ~150k PSP's sold in a month and the highest game is like 25k. Piracy seems to be rampant and really easy to do. Devs are getting screwed
Mario said:We monitor piracy of our games pretty closely, and piracy has hit our last PSP title far worse than any other platform (we are also across PC, PS2, and Xbox). In what we have tracked alone there have been around 3-4 times as many downloads of our PSP title than we have had actual sales (doesn't help that the game is hard to find in stores of course).
Indeed, a quick check online reveals around 100 people downloading it via Torrents right now
Piracy is definitely a contributing issue to lower sales in my view.
KingJ2002 said:good lineup but FAR from best ever... most of those games are better on consoles and dont seem to bode well for a handheld experience.
I buy a handheld to play games on the go and (slightly) worse control/graphics are accepted issues (with games like GTA showing these issues can be really small)KingJ2002 said:good lineup but FAR from best ever... most of those games are better on consoles and dont seem to bode well for a handheld experience.
Mejilan said:Lol, wtf are you smoking. I want some. Now.
That's moderately solid. Maybe.
At what point you consider piracy to have effects though?Mario said:Piracy is definitely a contributing issue to lower sales in my view.
Amir0x said:Yeah, PSP is certainly on fire. Handhelds always play second fiddle for me, though, so a lot of this killer lineup is gonna go by the wayside until I can budget it. Certainly, PSP is the victor to me for this holiday... but DS has Castlevania: PoR, which is hands down my most anticipated handheld gams.