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Sony PSP game console sales tops 50 million units

Technology Feb. 14, 2009 - 05:13AM JST ( 5 )

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kenchanFeb. 14, 2009 - 09:21AM JST

...hardware numbers tell only 10% of the story on their relative positions....lets forget that the PSP has 50% less install base and concentrate on software sales per hardware sold (tie in ratio)...as of dec 08 the rate for the DS was 4.8 and 4.2 for PSP....this might not seem such a big difference but this shows that the DS has sold 30,000,000 more software than the PSP over their entire lifecycles to date (true the PSP came 4 months later). Overall, the DS not only has higher hardware sales but higher software sales....therefore this whole article about the PSP challenging the DS is utter crap.
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proxyFeb. 14, 2009 - 01:15PM JST

If only Sony would issue a fully hackable version, I would buy a PSP tomorrow.
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kenchanFeb. 14, 2009 - 09:34PM JST

yes and sony makes loads of money from game hardware....NOT
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cwhiteFeb. 15, 2009 - 04:34PM JST

how about the price difference or more so the margin of profit for both hardware and software? and if you want to be really picky the cost of developing games whether it be a new or down converted game. Next we can think about cross language costs and games that sell well outside of Japan.
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kenchanFeb. 16, 2009 - 09:58PM JST

no because those costs are relatively even between platforms and is the developers costs...nothing to do with the sales of software/hardware....there are 2 figures that the industry abides by..hardware and software and the interlink between them...I just wanted to point out that this article missed this point.