Jamesac wrote:At the time the 5:1 figure for PSP:DS was mentioned, it wasn't unlikely. I don't think anyone expected Sony to screw up so badly. It was their battle to lose and they lost it with all their might.
James
I'll never forget this. Mainly because I believed he was right. And I told my friend who bought a DS as much.
Koworld in 2005 wrote:Christmas 2005 will be the end of the DS. We hope Nintendo has the true next-generation GBA in a lab somewhere. It’s crucial to those of us who love videogaming that they have.
Jamesac wrote:At the time the 5:1 figure for PSP:DS was mentioned, it wasn't unlikely. I don't think anyone expected Sony to screw up so badly. It was their battle to lose and they lost it with all their might.
James
Got to stop you there, it was highly unlikely, the ludicrousness of that claim generating a lot of posts pointing out just how mad it was.
Saying that the one market that Nintendo had dominated for years would be handed over to Sony on their first outing into this market and by a factor of 5 sales for every DS is obvious nonsense even if Sony did a bang up job of selling the thing. And a lot of people here said so.
You're rewriting historty there a bit claiming otherwise.
Baggypants wrote:I'll never forget this. Mainly because I believed he was right. And I told my friend who bought a DS as much.
Koworld in 2005 wrote:Christmas 2005 will be the end of the DS. We hope Nintendo has the true next-generation GBA in a lab somewhere. It’s crucial to those of us who love videogaming that they have.
They're going to have a late burst..I can feel it. Support for the DS and Wii will evaporate completely when people wake up to the egregious fibs and fantasy they've been plied with all these years..and Sony will sweep forward, selling so many consoles that even scalpers on eBay won't be able to keep up with demand. Nintendo products will be burned on huge pyres, with thousands of people cheering. The Xbox360 will die, unsold on the shelves, MS affiliated developers dying in poverty..reduced to performing lewd acts for small change on the street. Sony products on the other hand will be seen as design classics rivalling the Dyson cyclone Hi-Fi and the B&O washing machine. Even the small details, like the font on the outer casing will be seen in major design media events. Quite frankly..I don't see Sony topping the PS3 - it will have been so good. They'll have to have six new technologies in the PS4, awesome designer screws to hold it together and a power lead that screams fashion.
At this point I'll stop there as I know you have to change your underwear..
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Jamesac wrote:At the time the 5:1 figure for PSP:DS was mentioned, it wasn't unlikely.
The 5-to-1 figure was also quoted for off-the-shelves sales at a point where the DS had been out for several months and the PSP was brand-new, ie, when the balance of sales was going to be the worst.
espcially in Japan.
