Post by: Deguello on November 12, 2006, 12:41:29 AM
So I'm walking through my local Walmart, looking for chocolatey delights, and I decide to mosey along to the electronics department and when I get there I see something weird.
The case that held the PSP was totally empty. There were no PSP games inside. I searched around and found them a little to the left of the electronics desk, where there was a cardboard shelf, filled with PSP games, most marked for clearance/theft. I didn't see where the actual units were.
So the big question is... if Walmart drops the PSP, can it be considered totally dead? I say yes.
It makes me wonder if they are simply making room for the two new consoles coming out and they choose this time to cut the fat.
But, this is only the anecdote of one person from the sticks of a Southern state. I could be wrong.
Post by: Infernal Monkey on November 12, 2006, 02:53:49 AM
Sony's gonna have to step up if they want Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, Earth's support!
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Post by: hudsonhawk on November 12, 2006, 06:26:50 PM
The PSP isn't going anywhere, sorry to burst your bubble. Really it's been a best case scenario; it's done well enough that it keeps a fire under Nintendo (let's be honest, we wouldn't have the DS if it weren't for the threat of the PSP) but it's done so without taking away from Nintendo's core market (the DS is still printing money).
Post by: SixthAngel on November 13, 2006, 06:40:04 AM
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My guess: they're reshuffling the displays around and combining the PS3 and PSP displays.
The PSP isn't going anywhere, sorry to burst your bubble. Really it's been a best case scenario; it's done well enough that it keeps a fire under Nintendo (let's be honest, we wouldn't have the DS if it weren't for the threat of the PSP) but it's done so without taking away from Nintendo's core market (the DS is still printing money).
I assume you mean the best case scenario for Nintendo fans. It is nowhere near what was expected, much less best case scenario for people who got a psp.
Post by: hudsonhawk on November 13, 2006, 07:13:12 AM
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I assume you mean the best case scenario for Nintendo fans. It is nowhere near what was expected, much less best case scenario for people who got a psp.
I did, yes. As a Nintendo fan, it's been a best case scenario.
But you're right - it's lower than the expected market share. The situation certainly isn't great for PSP owners, but it isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Talk of "Winning" and "Losing" is for fanboys, the fact is that no one other than Nintendo has ever had this much market share in the portable gaming realm.
I wouldn't describe what they're doing as successful, but they've definitely grown the market - I know a lot of people with PSP's - way more than I know with DS's - and they're all casual gamers in the traditional sense - the kind of people who buy Madden every year. But none of them are the kind of people that would have owned a GBA or DS.
I think the main problem is that the library just hasn't come the way Sony expected. I genuinely think they expected 3rd parties to pick up the slack and put a compelling product out there. Sony isn't Nintendo - they can't carry a platform with their software alone, and I think that's what's slowed the growth of the PSP more than anything.
Post by: Smash_Brother on November 13, 2006, 07:21:19 AM
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I think the main problem is that the library just hasn't come the way Sony expected. I genuinely think they expected 3rd parties to pick up the slack and put a compelling product out there. Sony isn't Nintendo - they can't carry a platform with their software alone, and I think that's what's slowed the growth of the PSP more than anything.
And that's what will kill the PS3 as well.
Post by: NWR_pap64 on November 13, 2006, 07:32:06 AM
Really, they showed no gameplay, it was stupid as hell (as well as racist... :p ) and it didn't prove a point.
Apparently they didn't learn from their failure and are now adopting the same type of advertising for the PS3.
