weird - i'm sure a PSP price drop will help, but erm... wouldn't a DS price drop help too?
PSP has had some big name games out there - GTA is out, Madden, WE9, Monster Hunter, Musou - i love the PSP, and i have no idea why it isn't selling better than it is (especially in Japan). The big name titles are available, but the new IPs aren't really coming (Lumines being a strong seller , i suspect, because it's portable friendly (well, despite being 3 hours long per game!... okay, maybe not). Maybe Locoroco and other IPs will fair better? One has to assume that the price is the stumbling block - but how far can Sony cut it and can they cut it? $199 would be good but that's still a lot of cash. Perhaps a bundle is more likely with the gigapack relaunched at $239 or so?
And if Sony go to $199, how low will the DS go? $99? The games situation is altogether different in comparison to the PSP too - obviously some of the better selling games in Japan haven't hit the US yet, and by the looks of the US and Euro release lists, Nintendo have been too Japan centric and failed to get the flow of games into other territories sorted out - which was very bad indeed. Yet they didn't falter that bad at all. Looking at the big sellers on the DS... Nintendogs, brain training, more braintraining, gentlebrain training, Jump super stars etc... lots of new IP, and the big guns haven't even started to roll out yet.
we've yet to see : a new Mario, a new pokemon, zelda, Mario Party, Pikmin, donkey kong, wario land, etc... and i'm sure some other new ideas to come - same for PSP.
so theres lots of factors other than just price to be considered.
but yeah, i don't think anyone predicted what would happen in the first 12 months, and i'm not sure anyone can in the second. It's good to root for both , but then - where would that leave peoples wanky agendas about one of them having to "win"?