DS Heats Up, PSP Cools Down
The gaming community has choices these days that were pretty much unheard of a decade ago. Lucky for all of us, we have a lot of options to choose from. There are a lot of gaming platforms out there, but only two seems to be really slugging it out in the game handheld arena: Sony‘s PSP and Nintendo’s DS. How do we measure them against each other? Graphics? Number of games? Let’s try sales figures!
Remember the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words?” we say, these stats show a million! All sales figures are as of July 30, 2006.
Nintendo DS
Japan – 10.3 million
US – 5.8 million
Europe – 6.2 million
Australia – .2 million
Canada – .4 million
Worldwide – 22.9 million
PSP
Japan – 3.9 million
US – 5.1 million
Europe – 4 million
Australia – .15 million
Canada – .4 million
Worldwide – 13.37 million
What does that mean for the game market? People are willing to try on a game handheld that is considerably less in the graphics department but high in gameplay and innovation part. We see a paradigm shift towards gameplay as opposed to high graphics.
Hopefully, after seeing this, Sony will do something either to the present PSP or the future one. Nintendo will have to continue with being innovative and creative in its gameplay or they’ll lose their customers. Either way, us gamers will always win. It’s a beautiful world after all.
Thanks to Sttrangler for all the work of compiling these figures!
The gaming community has choices these days that were pretty much unheard of a decade ago. Lucky for all of us, we have a lot of options to choose from. There are a lot of gaming platforms out there, but only two seems to be really slugging it out in the game handheld arena: Sony‘s PSP and Nintendo’s DS. How do we measure them against each other? Graphics? Number of games? Let’s try sales figures!
Remember the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words?” we say, these stats show a million! All sales figures are as of July 30, 2006.
Nintendo DS
Japan – 10.3 million
US – 5.8 million
Europe – 6.2 million
Australia – .2 million
Canada – .4 million
Worldwide – 22.9 million
PSP
Japan – 3.9 million
US – 5.1 million
Europe – 4 million
Australia – .15 million
Canada – .4 million
Worldwide – 13.37 million
What does that mean for the game market? People are willing to try on a game handheld that is considerably less in the graphics department but high in gameplay and innovation part. We see a paradigm shift towards gameplay as opposed to high graphics.
Hopefully, after seeing this, Sony will do something either to the present PSP or the future one. Nintendo will have to continue with being innovative and creative in its gameplay or they’ll lose their customers. Either way, us gamers will always win. It’s a beautiful world after all.
Thanks to Sttrangler for all the work of compiling these figures!