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Sega: NGP will succeed, PSP didn't fail |
Listed in: PSP, PS Vita Tags: next generation portable, ngp, Sega, Sony
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iD Software's John Carmack has expressed his belief that Sony's Next Generation Portable shows a lot of promise for developers. From a more business-oriented standpoint, Sega believes pretty much the same thing.
Speaking with CVG, Sega West president Mike Hayes said that his company thinks that the NGP will be a success when it comes to sales.
"We are extremely optimistic about the new device hence our upfront and early commitment," Hayes said. In accordance with Sony's silence on the NGP's price point, Hayes also added that he has "no idea" what the NGP will go for at retail upon its launch.
Sega was among the many companies that showed support for the NGP upon its unveiling. They showed off Yakuza 4 running on the new handheld.
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While piracy had a part to play in the PSP's perceived failure, Sony's inability in the West to support the device through decent marketing, coupled with a lack of support for developers was a far more critical issue.
Had Sony not all but forgotten the device when PS3 launched, it might have garnered the recognition it deserved.
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dont be such a jackass, good sir white
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I would even go as far as saying piracy has boosted hardware sales and introduce people to the handheld market...
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The only bad thing about PSP was that the games had really poor sales in US/EU due to piracy, while in Japan it's excellent.
NGP will be much better than PSP, and piracy will hopefully not affect its sales.
Death to piracy!
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Secondly, the price isn't equal to the quality. If bad games would be cheaper then good games then people wouldn't be so scared to buy a game. Now they buy an expensive game to find out it is crap. What a waste of money... In the end they start pirating to prevent losing money on trash. Its sad for the good games that are worth there money, but it's reality.
Finally, people like making games and utilities for there hardware. Because game developers don't think it's worth the time to make such simple games or emulators. And because they just like messing with there console.
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"I would disagree on the point that PSP failed," he said. "For those of us that embraced the portable platform from the beginning we had a very successful and profitable run."
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There are so many lovely PS1 gems out there, none of which can be bought on the EU store...
Thank DAX for hacking the popstation I guess ?
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