(10/06/2010 10:24 AM)S7* Wrote:  While it was the most powerful at the time.. looking at sales:

Nintendo DS - Worldwide: 128.89 million
Sony PSP - Worldwide: 66.7 million

...as of March 31st, 2010

But I'm not really sure whether comparison of sales is really the right way to consider things.

For example, designer clothes usually have significantly less sales than clothes you find at a $5 shop.  This is due to different aims.
I think the NDS was meant to be a simple games console, with some innovation in the touchscreen area.  The PSP seems more aimed at a multimedia device than the NDS.
Although both are games consoles, and you may say they're marketed similarly, they may also have a fair bit of distinction.  For example, for most games, they'll be available on one of the platforms but not both, so consumers can't exactly choose freely between the two, like they could with clothes or CPUs, for example.

(10/06/2010 10:24 AM)S7* Wrote:  Sony need to provide something that people really want next time around and not slack at it. They must have been blind, for a start, to not see how with Nintendo DS already racking in the sales and the iPhones app store rocketing the iPlatform as a "gaming" one, that a Touchscreen would've helped the PSP significantly. Granted the first-gen PSP wasn't the right time, but the PSP Go was a chance, and would have been a much more worthy experiment than a stuuuupid Digital-only platform. The only thing they got right was the internal memory.

I think digital-only is the right way of the future.  iWhatever has been so for ages, and large amounts of flash memory is quickly getting cheap, and more people are connected to the net.
What they failed to address was that many consumers on the older platform actually want their games to work on the newer one without having to re-buy / re-download them.  I think it would've been better if they used the Go more as a transitional device, to get people aboard their digital platform.
Lack of competition is perhaps the other issue.  People are used to buying games at a games store.  Even though Apple have a nice monopoly on things, it will take some effort for Sony to put themselves in the same position.  The Go could've also been used as a transitional thing for this - eg sell games on memory cards to stores, and then sell them cheaper on PSN to entice people to buy online.