Post by: Artimus on September 22, 2006, 12:09:26 PM
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“I think obviously our competition, the handheld devices from Nintendo and specifically in the case of the DS, we really feel like they’re 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… They’re potentially losing some of their core audience and they’re not really expanding beyond that and we think we’re expanding into a completely new audience as we did with PlayStation. And we’ll do just what we did on PlayStation; we’ll dip down to the younger consumer eventually and we’ll ultimately appeal to that vastly Earth wide audience we carved out with the original PlayStation.” - Sony Computer Entertainment America’s Executive VP Jack Tretton
I totally agree.
Post by: 31 Flavas on September 22, 2006, 12:33:19 PM
(hardware sales)
DSL 134,885
PSP 26,995
yea... Nintendo is really losing audience there... at a 5:1 ratio over Sony.
Post by: wandering on September 22, 2006, 12:40:06 PM
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Don't Smoke CRACK!
Post by: Kairon on September 22, 2006, 02:13:13 PM
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Originally posted by: Mr. Jack
Wandering's picture really clears things up for me. It's funny because I was in EB Games today and the clerk brought out the book, with all the games that are coming out in the future for the PSP, and the customer spent about 1 minute looking through the book, closed it and said, "Man there is nothing but crap coming out for this system." At that point I grinned walked out the door and left.
So let me get this straight... you walked out the door... AND THEN YOU LEFT?
Your honor! This statement is clearly contradictory!
~Carmine M. Red
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Post by: IceCold on September 22, 2006, 02:24:40 PM
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Post by: IceCold on September 22, 2006, 03:50:27 PM
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Sony finished off with a little finger-wagging at the development community: "why so many sequels", Ken asked, having demo'ed Ridge Racer SEVEN, Virtua Fighter FIVE, Mobile Suit Gundam SIX (at least, if I'm not wrong) and Final Fantasy THIRTEEN. Innovation will come from users, or the power of the network, or by returning game designers to the creative process instead of having them out there photographing cars and landscapes for the next racing game.
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During the keynote, the DS pictochat room that had fallen silent sprang to life as bored attendees decided to entertain themselves, since it was clear that Ken Kutaragi had no intention of doing so. After the keynote, we head the words "meltdown," "total disaster," and "trainwreck" bandied about the press room. This keynote was worse -- way worse -- than Sony's E3 showing.
Post by: Kairon on September 22, 2006, 04:09:22 PM
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Kairon@aol.com
Post by: Ceric on September 22, 2006, 04:18:14 PM
Sony is doing terrible right now it seems.
Post by: Avinash_Tyagi on September 22, 2006, 05:26:32 PM
Post by: TrueNerd on September 22, 2006, 10:00:26 PM
Is the point he's making is that there was no previous audience for PlayStation in a portable format, as one didn't exist, so that's how they're "expanding" beyond their core demographic?
Post by: IceCold on September 22, 2006, 10:41:00 PM
QuoteFirst 17 months... that would be until April 2006. He's probably talking about the North American market - from a month after the PSP launch to about that time of the year, the DS and PSP were selling around the same in this region. The DS still had a higher "adoption rate" since it launched a few months before the PSP. Until April, the DS was ahead by a few hundred thousand.
if you look at the adoption rate of the DS over the first 17 months
Then Mario and the DS Lite came.. and the rest is history.
EDIT: He also conveniently left out the PSP's horrible software tie-in ratio. A larger userbase means nothing if the owners don't buy games for the system, and the PSP is suffering from devastatingly small software sales. In the end, developers don't care how much hardware is sold, but how much software is. The DS, with its focus on games, is doing much better in this regard - I remember reading that it sold more software in one month than the PSP did in a year or something..
Post by: Deguello on September 23, 2006, 12:24:58 AM
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I remember reading that it sold more software in one month than the PSP did in a year or something..
Chew on this. In Japan, The DS has sold more HARDWARE units than the PSP has sold SOFTWARE units. That's devastation.
Post by: Nick DiMola on September 23, 2006, 04:36:42 AM
Word for word.
"So let me get this straight... you walked out the door... AND THEN YOU LEFT?
Your honor! This statement is clearly contradictory!"
OBJECTION! ... but then I have no case so I lose. Damn.
Post by: 31 Flavas on September 23, 2006, 06:40:54 AM
You certainly could have walked out the door for other reasons. Like to get your DS, which you had left in your car, to use the DS Download Station or to show the fellow shopper. But no, you were clarifying your intentions! You walked out the door and left because you had no further bussiness to do!
Post by: Artimus on September 23, 2006, 06:52:04 AM
He said 'and left', not 'then left'. Implying they happened at the same time, which, if he was walking out the door...THEY DID.
CASE CLOSE
Post by: KDR_11k on September 23, 2006, 07:10:49 AM
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