Let The Baby Have His Bottle
DS VERSES PSP PART 2

VP Phil Harrison from Sony recently threw a few (new) insults at the Nintendo DS, they are quoted below in another colour:

“The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance,” he says. “Those formats don’t appear in our planning. It’s not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it’s the truth”
“With the DS, it’s fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen,” Harrison says. “But I fear that it won’t have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that.”

“Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it’s pretty much defined by a boy or girl’s ability to admire Pokemon”

If you're a Sony fanboy, you'd be agreeing with his views, right? Lol, this really shows how absolutely CLUELESS Sony is. But I'll let this pass, let the baby have his bottle, let the fanboys feel comforted by their handheld piece of... Sony. Actually... no, I think I'll have to cut him down (this IS a DS verses PSP topic! They attack with insults, now it's Ninty's turn to strike).

Quote 1: If anything is unfair comparison, it's the superiority of Nintendo's handhelds to the PSP. Nintendo have been designing quality handheld consoles over two and a half decades. They are experienced. They know what the public want. They are well known for exclusive 1st party games and unique gaming experiences. Sony on the other hand have little experience in gaming. Their first home console was a beefed up version of the SNES designed by Nintendo, which they "shoved" a CD drive into. What noobs. The size of an average PS1 game is 30mb, a CD originally held 600mb, now 700. Waste of a CD, and a waste of money. Their controller design held many of Nintendo's ideas. The rumble pak, the control stick etc, all first appeared on a Nintendo console.

Sony's experience at handheld gaming is even worse. The PSP is their first attempt at a handheld. They produce an expensive console with useless features. They implement a hard-to-control "control" stick that sticks out of the corner. They use UMDs which have been known to eject without warning. They create a single large screen so the square button becomes faulty. NOOBS. TOTAL NOOBS.

Quote 2. The Nintendo DS sold 4 times more than the PSP in Japan last week, check sales statistics if you don't believe me, or ask me for a link. The DS broke all current records for the fastest selling console back in February, it sold faster than the PS2 did when it was released in Australia. Again, ask me for a link. By the end of March, over 6 million DS units have been shipped to Australia alone, due to shortage of stock (ask for link). Furthermore, the touch screen allows for most of the DS's innovation. People have been creating homebrew applications, such as Linux and a GPS system for use with the touch screen. Official apps, such as DSpeak (DS's voip service), Wi-Fi and wireless LAN, movie and music capabilities etc, also add to the innovation.

Quote 3. The guy knows nothing about Pokemon, or the games currently available for the DS. For you interest, Pokemon is the fastest selling franchise owned by Nintendo (after Mario). Over a hundred million Pokemon games have been sold worldwide. Now I know the anime is corny, but personally I think the games rock. Pokemon Blue was, and is still one of the best RPG's I've ever played.
Currently there are no Pokemon games for the DS. Two new versions, Diamond and Peral, will be released in the near future, but nothing has been confirmed.

I guess Phil just couldn't take it that his $400 handheld was getting whipped in sales by a $200 console, which was supposedly a "kids toy".