Britain prefers PSP

[Neumie]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=64317

well i suspected this for a while but it seems that most people in the UK prefer the psp. even with a 6 month head start the DS is strugling against it. by the end of 2005 the PSP has been ahead in terms of games and hardware sales. i still have no idea how its doing in the states though.
your thoughts?

[ShadowMarth]

Oh noes! It's not selling as well in Europe?!? Psh, the japan sales outweigh any negativity for me. It's simply to bombastically awesome.

I'm pretty sure the DS is winning over the PSP here in the States. With the DS Lite on the horizon (and hopefully sufficient marketing), it should take a massive leap in front of the PSP.

who cares about stupid europe anyway

[fischju]

the ds has over twice as much in japan, 6m+ to 3m+

[chuddy_2001uk]

Originally Posted by Mormon

who cares about stupid europe anyway

What was that?

[alex]

you are finding that game developers etc... are caring more about europe then they did in the past as our gaming market is still expanding... just think why gamespot opened a uk again... more games coming out here first manly pc but belve the reason why we dont egt more games first at the moment is all the language translation... but hopefully as our market is getting bigger companys will be more willling to higher bigger teams of translators so it will get done alot quicker

Yeah, the main problem when releasing games in Europe is the language barrier. Translation into the various languages results in delayed release. It's too bad devs can't have teams translating the games while they are being created simultaneously. That way worldwide release dates would be more common, so that all markets can have a taste of the action. Only problem is that such a venture would actually cost a good sum of money (I'm pretty sure we talked about this kinda thing before in some other thread). There's still much of the Euro market that publishers haven't reached.

[lemmywinks]

Woah is that really true? Here in merry old England I see someone with a DS in college like every week... but I never see a psp. Ah well...

[bignds]

First off-

Originally Posted by Mormon

who cares about stupid europe anyway

Doesnt bother me much, i just dont like to consider England as part of mainland Europe, the though makes me ill, dislike alot of those countries, except for italy, cos they are italian, which is good enough.

Second of all, back the matter at hand, predict it a year ago, our market is way shallow, theyll buy just based on that PS brand name.