A couple of years ago Sony entered the hand held market with the release of their PlayStation Portable (PSP) in the hopes of competing with Nintendo. At the time, we had the Game Boy Advance, but Nintendo quickly responded with the Nintendo DS.
I’ve always felt that its going to be hard for Sony to truly compete in this area, as the type of games Sony makes don’t appeal to many hand held users. It looks like many others agree, as Gizmodo has just published 8 reasons why the PSP will never ever overtake the DS.
DS games sell better. Way better. Let’s turn away from consoles sold for a minute and look at the software moved–a stat just as important for the success of a platform. The PSP has no titles whatsoever in the top 100 of all time video game sales charts. Their best selling title is Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories which has moved a meager 4.5 million units…at least when compared to the success of the DS. From my count, the DS has 8 titles in the top 100 charts, with Nintendogs breaking the top 10 with 15.41 million copies sold worldwide. And it’s not the only title to move more than 10 million copies. Oh, and Mario and Pokemon and case closed.
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