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Alastor the Stylish Hey! I made a cool game! It's called "I poisoned half the food, so if you eat you might die!" Have a taco.  Level: 114  Posts: 4169/7620 EXP: 16258468 For next: 51099 Since: 03-15-04 From: Oregon, US Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Somehow I doubt the PSP sold out really quick, really. It had such bad press I find it hard to believe, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do still have some on the shelves. | |||
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 5934/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Nah, Sony's said that it's slow going getting all the units ready. Therefore, if the PSP sold out with those units sold during the week, you can't blame them for finishing 4th. |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 1601/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| You'd think Sony would have learned to put out more units for launch from their PS2 mishap... | |||
Ok Impala! Buzzy Beetle Level: 31 Posts: 238/383 EXP: 183070 For next: 2293 Since: 03-16-04 From: The Netherlands Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 23 hours |
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| Ok! I *think* Sony simply didn't expect Nintendo to release a new hand-held this year. They simply thought they could just launch the PSP in small numbers and at a high price. But suddenly, Nintendo came up with that DS...and now the problems are there...at least if it stays this way...  |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 7029/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| Well, it could be the N-Gage syndrome. When a company have too high expections how their product will sell. Althought I do doubt that PSP will fail as much, I just hardly think it will pass DS for now. I'm not hating PSP thought, it gives competition after all. Which is good.  |
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cpubasic13 17 years old now. Time to buy some M rated games by myself! Level: 54  Posts: 811/1346 EXP: 1206934 For next: 26936 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blame my parents, Eddy Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Well... uhhh... this is from day 1 release of the PSP in Japan: The portable gaming war is officially under way in Japan. According to numerous business press reports, independent research by sales tracking company Media Create has found that Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation Portable sold 171,963 units on its launch date. SCE hasn't released an official sales figure for the multimedia PSP yet, but Media Create's numbers, as well as those of other independent research groups, suggest that over 85 percent of the nearly 200,000 units shipped reached eager hands of gamers on its official launch date, Sunday (see movie link below). Reportedly, the top-selling titles for the PSP were SCE's Hot Shots Golf, Namco's Ridge Racers, and FromSoftware's Armed Core Formula Front. SCE plans to ship 500,000 units by the end of the year in Japan and release the handheld in America and Europe early next year--the company expects to ship three million units worldwide by the end of March. Sony is considering increasing production of the handheld to meet consumer demand, but admits that a boost is unlikely due to arranged contracts with suppliers of the PSP's components. The first shots in the battle for handheld supremacy in Japan were fired by longtime portable gaming giant Nintendo earlier this week. Nintendo's DS handheld has reportedly shipped over 1.4 million units as of Sunday. The number of units already sold in America as of December 8 is 700,000, and another 700,000 units were shipped in Japan as of December 12. Nintendo hopes to ship 2.8 million units worldwide before the end of the year and five million units by the end of March 2005. At Sunday's PSP launch event at Shinjuku's Yodobashi Camera, where SCE president Ken Kutaragi commemorated the launch of the product at 6am (pictured above, far left), there were over 1,200 people waiting in line to purchase the handheld. Because of its popularity, and the modest availability of 200,000 units nationwide at launch, the PSPs at Yodobashi sold out by around 9am. While it's difficult to accurately compare the demand based on the following figures, for comparison, the Nintendo DS shipped 500,000 units on its launch date of December 2 in Japan, and could still be purchased at Yodobashi even late that afternoon without a preorder slip. By Hirohiko Niizumi -- GameSpot They are making it seem like the PSP sold more, which it did not. You have 200,000 units of PSPs. Meanwhile, when the DS was released in Japan, there were 500,000 units and there were still enough to go around. Plus the quote "Sony is considering increasing production of the handheld to meet consumer demand, but admits that a boost is unlikely due to arranged contracts with suppliers of the PSP's components." shows that the PSP is going to be underproduced and there isn't going to be that much to go around. Who wins this battle? Nintendo because not only is there enough to go around, they have even more games for it with the backwards support for GBA games which the PSP could not do. |
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windwaker Ball and Chain Trooper WHY ALL THE MAYONNAISE HATE Level: 61  Posts: 862/1797 EXP: 1860597 For next: 15999 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 6 days |
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| $psp = pspunitssold; $ds = dsunitssold; for($ds > $psp;$psp = 200000;$ds < 500000  ; |
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Zem You can be civil without being flowery, dipshits. Level: 49 Posts: 531/1107 EXP: 829398 For next: 54485 Since: 06-13-04 Since last post: 131 days Last activity: 131 days |
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| Your pseudo-code works up until the for statement, which makes no sense no matter how you slice it. $psp = 200000 should probably be the first portion of that, and then one of the other two would need to actually change something or you'd end up with an endless loop... if you had a loop in there at all, which you don't, because you ended the for with a semicolon. (Also you don't need a semicolon before the right parenthesis.) | |||
Scatterheart Panser Level: 29 Posts: 49/342 EXP: 143409 For next: 4476 Since: 06-06-04 From: Sydney, Australia Since last post: 17 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| To me, it's always been the same with Playstation. They have a few really good games, but are overshadowed by their countless shit ones. Nintendo on the other hand have alot of long running kick ass series which will always prevail. Metroid, Zelda, Mario etc. I've been a Nintendo boy since the very beggining. Sure, I owned a PSX, and liked it. It had some awesome RPGs, but many of them never even got released over here in Australia, and we were left with the shitty sport, racing and other games that didn't do it justice. Thus I got my PSX chipped. I was thrilled about paying $10 a game. But there's just something about not owning the official thing that makes you not want to fully finish it, not getting everything. It was annoying back with the PSX how their CD covers didn't fit in a CD stacker, but then they released their covers to fit in a CD stacker. This was just as annoying, because now you have a mixture of thick and thin PSX games. Ah well... Hopfully, this'll bring on plenty of good arguments on both sides. How about we make a "Good, bad and ugly" post/thread about the PSP? |
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Ok Impala! Buzzy Beetle Level: 31 Posts: 239/383 EXP: 183070 For next: 2293 Since: 03-16-04 From: The Netherlands Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 23 hours |
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| Ok! It seems like the figures I gave to you before were of only a part of the week...the complete figures are even more worse for the PSP... Japanese Console Hardware Chart From: Dec 20 - 26, 2004 System Sales this week Total this year Nintendo DS 396,674 1,286,074 GameBoy Advance SP 190,268 2,530,961 PlayStation 2 188,134 2,691,666 GameCube 108,311 696,839 PlayStation Portable 107,217 352,295 GameBoy Advance 3,877 198,025 Xbox 704 37,083 PSone 90 14,029 Swan Crystal 76 7,464 You see that? DS = 4 * PSP GBA SP = 2 * PSP |
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Alastor the Stylish Hey! I made a cool game! It's called "I poisoned half the food, so if you eat you might die!" Have a taco. Level: 114 Posts: 4269/7620 EXP: 16258468 For next: 51099 Since: 03-15-04 From: Oregon, US Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Ok Impala!What? I thought they sold LOTS of them  |
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Ok Impala! Buzzy Beetle Level: 31 Posts: 240/383 EXP: 183070 For next: 2293 Since: 03-16-04 From: The Netherlands Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 23 hours |
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| Ok! That's the old version of the GBA... |
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