BlueStar said:
Guild McCommunist said:
Elaborate on what was wrong with the PSP that they're not fixing on the NGP?
Trying to make a home console in your hands rather than a handheld console. It's a business plan that didn't work last time and won't work this time. A quote which has been attributed to everyone from Albert Einstein to Benjamin Franklin
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Patronisingly telling Sony "Oh, look, it wasn't that bad. You sold some machines, if not games, quite a lot of machines actually! You made the most successful non-nintendo handheld, even if that's an accolade akin to being the world's best paraplegic juggler" doesn't really help. Sony are clearly disappointed with how the system fared in terms of the amount of the handheld market it gained and its general performance, as they've
admitted at various points in its life cycle - even when it was doing well in some regions, it was lagging far behind in others.
Nice useless quote shoe-in. Only jaded morons think that PSP games are trying to be like home console games. There's games that give a home console experience but definitely fit into my hands and work well for on-the-go.
Take Peace Walker for instance. It feels like a Metal Gear Solid game. It has an epic storyline that's actually relevant to the main series plot, gameplay elements from across the board of MGS games (like MGS4's system of combat, the general same stealth system from MGS onwards, and team building from Portable Ops). It feels like a home console game but it's snipped into missions to be more approachable on a handheld. Break out the system, play a mission or two on your morning commute, and then put it away.
Monster Hunter's rather the same. You can do missions in under 10 minutes or you can spend the whole 50 minutes (that's usually the average max time for missions) to really do some hunting. And if you had to play it in 10 minutes or less on your commute, you can do it again later to reap the land of all its resources.
You can do missions in Valkyria Chronicles II in a few minutes but it still has an enormous amount of depth to it and is a game you can easily sit down and play for hours on end.
As for sales, boo-hoo. Sales don't make a good system. The Dreamcast sold 1/6th or so what the PSP sold but is still nowadays regarded as a great console. The Gamecube sold less than 1/2 of what the PSP sold and again, it's considered a great system.
Your entire argument boils down to ill educated talking points from the Sony hater's memo book and the whole "sales = good system" argument.
I forget, but did you ever own a PSP and actually try it? Or did you get one, play a few games, cry about it, sell it, and now spend your time bashing a system you truly don't understand?
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