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Video Game Consoles Up 26%; iPhone Killing Portable Gaming Devices

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7 pointskimboslice7 comments

"However, portable gaming consoles (like the PSP and Nintendo DS) fell 14%. This clearly is an outcome of devices like the iPhone which are now full gaming systems in their own right"

This is not clear at all. The blog author is simply asserting it without providing any supporting evidence.

Because there isn't. There are 40M PSP, in spite of being 4 years old there were 193k sold in October. Nintendo DS 84M and almost 500k sold last month. There are only 13M iPhones so far, and it is an order of magnitude away from any significant real share for mobile phones sales. And never mind the apples and oranges pathetic comparison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081114-october-npd-sa...

Wow, I had actually copied that quote with the intent of saying the same thing. The only thing that is clear is is that 2 years after launching, Nintendo still can't produce Wiis fast enough.

The PSP has always been a bit of a dud.

Hi Kimboslice/Ryan Spoon.

It seems you submit every entry from your blog, and IMHO there's nothing wrong with that, but you have to admit it, you rarely get votes. Maybe it would be more successful if you change a bit your strategy looking for higher quality posts with more information and analysis and less opinion, in less posts.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kimboslice

My $.02

Alternate possibility: current handheld game console generation is mature. Everyone who wants a DS or PSP has one.

Also, the author doesn't look at actual portable game (software) sales.

Console gaming died because you can play little games in your DVD menus.

The iPhone is not killing portable gaming devices. My God, look at Monster Hunter in Japan. It's a lack of good software.

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