Nintendo is kicking everyone's ass!

[Icarus Moonsight]

You wonder? Really!? Now c'mon, it's all too obvious. Sabers, eye patches, talking parrots and peg legs...the other thing starts with E and ends with N. :p

I wouldn't say the PSP is doing fine at the moment. Releases are starting to get further apart, etc. It's not exactly looking healthy. There is some interesting stuff coming (Star Ocean Second, PSO Zero...), just not much of it. It's prime has passed it seems. I will say that it is the most successful non-Nintendo handheld ever. It will have a successor and deservadly so. It's a good thing. The handheld market has been dominated for too long anyway and competition is good for us gamers. Makes all involved try harder for your money and your notice. The handheld market is so good these days, in fact, it has swept a lot of attention away from the console arena. I'd almost wager that sometime down the road that the total market will swing towards handhelds and consoles will be the secondary market in the industry. This could keep Sony afloat during these hard times until they regain a major foothold. They're gonna have to earn it though, unless someone makes a big boo boo. LOL

[megasdkirby]

The PSP is doing fine. Just because it's not selling close to what DS is selling, doesn't mean it's doing badly.

Although I do wonder what people are doing with their PSP's, since PSP games almost never seem to sell very well. But the hardware sells okay.

At least from what I've seen in the store, many purchase it for the same reason they purchase a PS3: media entertainment and not for the games.

I love my PSP and DS and I alternate equally. One has things the other does not, and vice versa.

But I WILL admit that I began using the PSP more after installing CFW...

[j_factor]

At least from what I've seen in the store, many purchase it for the same reason they purchase a PS3: media entertainment and not for the games.

What media entertainment, exactly? I'm pretty sure UMD movies have been a bust. I mean I guess there's pirating and stuff, but in general I don't think that many people pirate.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Pr0n Station Portable? LOL

[dbiersdorf]

The PSP is doing fine. Just because it's not selling close to what DS is selling, doesn't mean it's doing badly.

Although I do wonder what people are doing with their PSP's, since PSP games almost never seem to sell very well. But the hardware sells okay.

But what do hardware sales entail? PSP releases have been a vacant wasteland for months now. When the games aren't selling companies stop caring. Sure the hardware manages to sell (and I wouldn't consider it selling "fine" either) but it's not doing anything for anyone but Sony, not to mention we all know game companies make the majority of their money through software, not hardware, so even still it's not doing a hell of a lot for them either.

The one exception to this is the PSP is Japan, the past year has seen sort of a rebirth in not just hardware sales, but also managed to pick up software sales. But personally I think this only happened to the massive flopping of the console sales over there (excluding the Wii.)

UMD is a dead format, what Sony needs to do with the PSP is create a successor that specializes in direct downloads to a memory stick, something what they've already begun doing with the PSP.

As for the PS3? Who knows, doesn't seem much can help them there.

[rpgadam07]

Wii is an waste of time, bad online playability, crap download games, crap retail games. 300 dollars is too much to expend for play 2 or 3 good games, you can buy an ps2 for 50 bucks with same graphics and with more than 100 excellent titles in your library...

...they play wii (the worst of 3)...

Well, if this sales chart is correct, people REALLY like to waste their time and money:

http://vgchartz.com/

[Nature Boy]

What media entertainment, exactly? I'm pretty sure UMD movies have been a bust. I mean I guess there's pirating and stuff, but in general I don't think that many people pirate.

You don't need to pirate anything to take advantage of the media stuff.

Personally, I keep a bunch of Looney Tunes cartoons, among other stuff on my PSP in mp4 format. If I have a spare moment, I can watch something.

I also use it as a 'backup' mp3 player. If I want to load mp3s onto my iPod, I pretty much have to be at home. I can load anything onto my PSP immediately and listen to it on the way home if I get something at work (new podcast for example).

It'd be nicer if there were more games I wanted for it, but that's true for the DS in my case as well so I don't sweat it much.