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Originally posted by ottoman
well, just what does decide the best selling console then?
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Clearly that is a question for the console gods.. But SONY have the situation licked. Nobody can touch them at all in console sales..
Personally I think what SONY do so well is market their hardware and software. I mean everytime theres a commercial break on TV you are practically guranteed to see a SONY advert. Heck, SONY sponsering the show you are/were watching is becoming even more common place.
I think that is where SEGA and Nintendo failed in the 90s. They still marketed their consoles as toys.. Meanwhile, here comes SONY with its PlayStation console and loads and loads of mainstream advertising/sponsering/shiling and voila it litterally brought the Console Market. FACT!.
I believe, or at least hope and pray, that this PSP will fail miserably. Even Nintendo simply brushed it off when pressed for a comment at E3. Perhaps the higherups are scared in private, but publicaly this is what wanted I to hear from them. Nintendo has seen off other competitors and it WILL see off SONY. Also Nintendo has gone on record to say that the biggest threat to its Handheld Market Shared is not another handheld console, but Mobile Phones. I wonder, who understands the Handheld Market more? Nintendo, or SONY?