Sony: PSP is “separate business” to iPhone

What about the iPod touch?

Completely delusional. It’s because the vast majority of people *don’t* want 20+ hour console like gaming experiences that PSP software sales have been piss-poor whilst the DS’ have gone stratospheric.

Then again he probably thinks about the Wii along similar lines so he must be right

I’m literally astonished to hear myself say it, but the iPod Touch is a much more enticing prospect than the PSP to me. And I hates Apple.

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Since I bought an iphone my psp is gathering dust…

The amount and price of games that are available for the iPhone/Touch should have sent the alarm bells ringing at Sony some time ago, this is a pretty weak response.

“The amount and price of games that are available for the iPhone/Touch should have sent the alarm bells ringing at Sony some time ago, this is a pretty weak response.”

Please show me one game on the iPhone/Touch with any sort of extended replay value.

Please show me on game on the iPhone/Touch with as much play time as Crisis Core, Monster Hunter, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, or any other number of titles I could think of.

He never said people weren’t interested in the iPhone/Touch. He said it’s appealing to a different market, and in that case, it’s true.

People don’t buy the iPhone/Touch to play games; it’s just a cool thing the device can also do, and the games on the device, mostly short-lived pick-up-and-play titles that last for the better part of five minutes, is more than enough proof of that.

The PSP, barren as its release schedule may be, has its far share of completely, long-lasting games at the core gaming market. The iPhone/ Touch does not.

You people whinge just for the sake of whinging sometimes.

I agree, unless someone comes up with a better control scheme on the iPhone, I do not see how it could threaten the PSP.

Well you’ve just listed three PSP games I’ve not bought for my PSP and never would but there are plenty of titles I rather like the look of on the Touch which I am indeed thinking of buying for its game playing capabilities as well as doing things like web access far better than the fucking awful browser that Sony have on the PSP, which I assume falls into the “does a lot more than play games” category.

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“PSPbarren”

Now you’re just trolling for the sake of trolling.

For a long time, the PSP *was* extremely barren for releases. A burst in titles for the format has only occurred recently. And as a *fan* and *supporter* of the format, I hope that continues.

I never stated otherwise. You just assume shit and troll like a petulant child desperate for attention.

As always.

personally I play mobile games a lot, while PSP doesn’t appeal to me at all. enjoyed only a couple of titles on it really, then sold it.

I don’t want to spend 20 hours on a handheld game. and I don’t want to play PS2-like titles at the airport or in the street lmao.. if I want to play console games, I do that on my 360/PS3.

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@7: I don’t see people whinging. The point was whether the iPhone was seen as a competitor to the PSP or not. Sony man says no, which is daft, quite frankly.

The evidence suggests that plenty of people don’t buy a PSP to play games either!

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my psp’s been gathering dust after a week I bought it.

Oh yeah!

Sony just looooooooooooooove writing off the (non-)competition.

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“The evidence suggests that plenty of people don’t buy a PSP to play games either!”

What evidence would that be?

The sales charts, I’m guessing. Although it could equally prove that plenty of people buy a PSP because they know they can easily pirate the games.

Oh speaking of 20+ games on the touch. Clicky

I’ve got a PSP, but actually being seen playing with the ugly, clunky, noisy UMD-whirring monster in a public place fills me with social stigma terror.

My I-Touch, on the other hand…

SonyMan, he talk nonsense as usual.

“What evidence would that be”

Ask around, look at the sales charts. Where were there PSP games selling even when there actually were some of note?

http://www.edge-online.com/news/npd-06-software-sales-lag-psp

The blame can’t squarely be laid at the feet of piracy, the DS still manages to move significant amounts of software despite all of those R4′s kicking about. Part of it would be lots of the “wrong” software (i.e. PS2 ports) and some of it down to people simply not buying it for games.

I happen to think if Sony pushes the distribution angle with PSN and gets the right content out, it’ll have something of an indian summer in this regard but that puts it squarely into the top end of iPhone / App store territory. To suggest it’s not competing with it is stupid. Publishers are not going to sit there and leave their core IP on a shelf if iPhone users continue to consume content with such wild abandon.

And whilst we’re at it, lets try changing ONE word;-

“The Wii games and apps are largely diversionary, whereas we’re a gaming company and we make games for people who want to carry a gaming device and play a game that offers a satisfying 20+ hours of gameplay,”

Sound familiar? If they don’t learn their lesson now they aren’t going to.

the Wii is still a console.

their mistake with PSP was that they’ve made a pocket PS2 instead of a handheld gaming machine.

wow the same people still arguing over the same stupid rehash headlines. its so sad. it does amaze me though how people buy apple products that are so over priced (for most)and still say the ps3 is still expensive. I know the article is about psp but how can people buy an iphone thats main purpose is to call people at the price of $600 plus monthly fees. Then turn around and say the ps3 is too expensive to just play games but gives you more entertainment value for your buck . 2012 people 2012

@G1GA,

What’s worse, Sony saying “the iPhone appeals to a different market than the PSP” – a reasonable, subjective opinion which although you may disagree with cannot be said to be fallacious – or MS saying “we’re equal first with Nintendo this generation” – a brim-full of desperate bullshit statement clearly plucked from the realms of fanboi fantasy?

Which is less in touch with reality? MS try to write off Sony every day of the year and claim they’re keeping up with Nintendo. But that’s okay.

Incidentally people, one minute it’s “the PSP is useless until it gets a second analogue stick” the next it’s “the PSP is useless next to a platform with no buttons”. And no, the touchscreen does and will not make up the difference unless you are looking for a thousand tilt games and DS ports. Or utter crap like Metal Gear Touch…….

PS Piracy is an ENORMOUS problem on the PSP. I remember seeing data last year which showed that illegal downloads of many PSP games outnumbered legitimate sales by staggering margins – over 5:1 for some games.

Cort i think i have to let you in on the secret….Everyone hates Sony and wants the name erased from every piece of writing and text possible. You also have to realize giga was (like many others use to be)a “SEGA Fanboy”. When Sony murdered them the “SEGA Fanboys” had no where to turn to other than (you guessed it) M$. Some of them eventually drifted off to apple too. In the end they all have been working together to try and take down Sony piece by piece by crying like little bitches over the internet for the past 6 years (i’d say).

Now is this BS?….Could be
Is it true?….Who cares
The only thing that matters is!….Do you enjoy the PSP?

PS… i was only joking Giga, calm down before you RROD yourself

Just found this:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=251896

Look at that figure for Patapon and remember this is just a single torrent site and the date of the research is early March 2008. The game launched late December 2007 in Japan, late February 2008 everywhere else.

Legal Patapon sales from launch date to March 2009 – i.e. a whole year later than this piracy research? About 500k.

That’s where your software figures are going, doubters. People are playing plenty of PSP games: stolen ones. Ninety per cent of homebrewers are nothing more than common thieves, and law-abiding gamers suffer.

Sad but true Cort. The psp is indeed a great hand held gaming platform but piracy has gotten out of control.
The big problem is you can’t stop it though. Sony blocked the hackers and pirates with the PS3 but they can’t do that with the psp because its cheap and custom firmware can break any locks they force you to download.