Analyst: iPod Touch will kill the PSP

Another one boards the iPhone-greater-than-PSP wagon. This time it’s Game Brief analyst Nicholas Lovell, who says that the Apple device will be the “final nail in the PSP’s coffin.”

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Another one boards the iPhone-greater-than-PSP wagon. This time it’s Game Brief analyst Nicholas Lovell, who says that the Apple device will be the “final nail in the PSP’s coffin,” having three times more games than the DS, and five times more than the PSP.

The iPod Touch is rapidly becoming the portable media player of choice amongst a younger audience, exactly the place that Sony wanted to be with the PSP.

[The iPod Touch] is an easy-to-use device that offers consumers their music, podcasts, short-form video and accessible games on the move and in my opinion, will be the final nail in the PSPÂ’s coffin.

While he says that it’s the games that make the platform, he argues that the iPhone is changing the name of the game. It’s no longer “the content per se” that matters, “but the ease of getting it that makes a difference,” talking about the vending machine ease of the AppStore. If that’s the case, then let’s hope David Perry was right and Sony is going digital.

Let’s also not forget that Sony promised to reinvigorate the PSP this year. It’s still early in the year and we’ve yet to see them make good on the promise. And as wonderful as the iPhone is, I doubt it’s going to kill the PSP. After all, it’s still a phone at heart, and ease of acquiring games just can’t substitute for the power and the game library of the PSP.

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Via CasualGaming.biz