Why is psp failing?

[QUOTE="genaroll"][QUOTE="Laserwolf65"]The first handheld to ever successfully co-exist with a nintendo handheld is not a failure. It's a rowsing success.Laserwolf65

[QUOTE="Laserwolf65"][QUOTE="genaroll"] The psp is still around now because sony continues to support it.If the games for the psp actually sold well then it wouldn't be failing.So many good games for the psp go unnoticed tho.genaroll

It's not failing, but the reason why they are last is because they lack the gimmicks needed to get people to buy there handheld.

I don't get it. People just like to hate on the psp. Look at 3ds, it's been a great welcome for gamers yet the games look like psp games.

[QUOTE="Modern_Unit"]

60 mill =/= Failing

themyth01

60 mill =/= Failing

Its annoying to hear people bash the PSP for having "console games" and also praising the 3DS with Metal Gear and Zelda ports.

Ragnarok1051

You dont know how true that statement is. Its like they flip floped.

Because it tries to be a console, has the worst control layout ever and has the worst libary of games. It sucks even the mighty Metal Gear can't save it.Clank-PS-Snake

Sales wise proboly not,but it doesint fail in quality.

[QUOTE="themyth01"][QUOTE="Modern_Unit"]

60 mill =/= Failing

Ragnarok1051

[QUOTE="Ragnarok1051"][QUOTE="themyth01"] It is when it's been in the market for 6 years, and current sales are sometimes eclipsed even by the PS2. Even the software on it barely sales. Overall it's a semi-successful business venture, but currently, it's failing. themyth01

[QUOTE="GramDubs"]

70 million sales is not failing, it came out in 2004.

DJ_Lae

It's still failing in the sense that sales are declining (especially on the software side).

http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31566/Apple-iPhone-and-iPod-touch-Capture-U-S-Video-Game-Market-Share

The picture is a little misleaing because obviously it's in percentages rather than absolutes, and the total revenue in 2009 was higher than 2008.

But PSP software sales still fell from 450 million in 2008 to 281 million in 2009. That's a pretty sad state of affairs.

It's still the number 1 selling console in Japan for how many weeks nowraskullibur

since everyone has DS already and 3DS information was around since CES? :p remeber PS3 downfall on Japan after slim annocment? this is how there market works

PSP isn't failing.

But here are some reasons why it doesn't do well compared to the DS:

1. DS targets a larger audience.

2. The DS is a haven for emulation devices and piracy.

3. The PSP doesn't have a library as diverse as the DS. However itdoes have moresshooters but somepeople I know keep complaing about it only having one anolog stick.

4. DS is cheaper. The cheaper console ALWAYS wins.

The PSP is a great gaming handheld andbetter multimedia device. The problem is the Iphone is turning out to possess evenbetter multimedia applications which is dipping into the PSP's profits. So Playstation is currently attacking the Iphone in the "MarcusPSP" ads.

No genre on the system has been able to take hold.

Puzzles work better on DS due to touch screen

Shooters... don't work.

RPGs on the system have bombed in review scores

Racers don't control as good with the analog stick

Platformers are virtually nonexistent

Action games tend to be ports of console titles

RTS... lol

Fighting is the only genre the PSP is decent at

PSP isn't failing.

But here are some reasons why it doesn't do well compared to the DS:

1. DS targets a larger audience.

2. The DS is a haven for emulation devices and piracy.

3. The PSP doesn't have a library as diverse as the DS. However itdoes have moresshooters but somepeople I know keep complaing about it only having one anolog stick.

4. DS is cheaper. The cheaper console ALWAYS wins.

The PSP is a great gaming handheld andbetter multimedia device. The problem is the Iphone is turning out to possess evenbetter multimedia applications which is dipping into the PSP's profits. So Playstation is currently attacking the Iphone in the "MarcusPSP" ads.

somomom

They both suffer from unparrelled piracy.