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@koehler83
Hmmm, I think you give very little credit to our Russian friends, especially since they captured Berlin.

@GaryOldmanRulez
I'm American too, but even I know that the Americans weren't the major players for the European campaign. That part was done mainly by the Russians and the Western Europeans. Americans played a major part in defeating Japan though.

So much for Samsung's seat on the Symbian Foundation board....

Really? I just tried Music Player again just now, and it brought me back to my list of songs when I hit Back. This is through the Artists section, Albums section, Playlists section, All Songs section, and the Podcasts section. Wonder what's going on with your phone....

Yawn. Welcome to the party, Apple. My N70 has been doing this, and 2MP pix and video and MP3 player years ago (really, like before an iPod 5G years ago). Took you long enough..

I think Nilay is hungry

awe pixelator, you want to turn this into your own personal ring match again. what a poor sucker. ok here goes with the links:

- the july NPD data (NDS > PSP by 100%):
http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=11760

- the june NPD data (NDS > PSP by 100%):
http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=19601

- the 2005 data
http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=17953

plus the May NPD which I can't post due to URL limits here.
and not to mention the numerous WebLogs Inc postings on hardware sales for Japan, which continuously trounce DS over PSP for the past YEAR. So yeah with the only barely PSP eeking out the DS last year (by 2%), plus the PSP losing alot to DS this year, plus the ridiculous sales figures for the DS over PSP in Japan (you have been reading the blogs around, have you), plus the similar selling patterns in Europe, and the ridiculous software sales for the DS over the PSP (you have read the links above right?) Do you know what it looks like? A slide. I don't care about your 'shipped' numbers, just like I don't believe Nintendo announcing they sold 21 million. I just watch the sold unit figures, which continually add up to Nintendo's side. Also, you'll notice how the PS2 continues to dominate, pushing PSP titles out of the top 10 but failing to push DS titles, another issue I pointed out that will haunt the PSP. So I don't care about gamerankings or metacritics anymore, since ratings don't translate to sales, but sales figures sure show what sells and don't. And I'm still not sure where you got YOUR facts about software sales, looking at the year end sales facts. Unless you're saying that having one lone title on the top 10 selling software against 4 DS titles is considered 'fairly well'. That looks more like an embarrassment, but hey, it's all about opinions at this point.

And dude, I do own a PSP, with the receipt and all, if you want to see it. But you can rant and rave all you want to say that I don't. it just makes you look like a complete moron. Or other times where you look like a loon, such as the BGA soldering for PDA upgrades on Brighthand forums,remember, how you bad mouth that poor guy about how it's entirely possible to upgrade PDAs with BGA soldering by third parties, only to have someone who knows what they're talking about put you back in you place ;) I do watch these too. ) I laughted my ass off that day. Or how about the stupid DS vs. PSP blog, where you kept ranting and bitching against me that the DS will never be able to connect to the Internet directly, that it'll need tunnelling software and additional hardware to achieve this, that this had to do with Level 3 on the OSI network stack??! huh? how I said that the Level 3 portion is what will enable the DS to connect to the Internet because that's where the TCP portion is implemented, through software. Well, remember slimeball?!?! And look what happened when MKDS and Tony Hawk came around - no additional hardware or firmware update required for the DS to connect to the internet. I was laughing my ass off again as I recalled your stupid remarks. shall we ask WebLogs Inc to bring those back up? You'll never be able to live that one down, idiotic geek! And I'll make sure you don't whenever you bad mouth any other blogger here, scum! Those two incidents alone already prove you have NO IDEA about the technology involved here, or how it impacts the industry. I saved these two facts for a day like today, knowing full well how to kick you in your teeth. Or even more laughs by bringing up stupid Vaio UX-50 - which got crap reviews, or the Mylo, an unknown product that looks like a "ME TOO" item next to Nokia 770 and Sidekick. What are you thinking?!?! Such a f***ing embarrassment you are.

So no, all your time put into CES and E3 means squat so far. I don't care what you do for the industry. Your 'knowledge' doesn't add shit and you still don't know shit! Oh, wait this might be more 'fallacious' bs from my mouth. Just like you, shitball. Why the hell would I lie about owning a PSP, or you just don't read?

PSP was supposed to dethrone DS - it didn't. PSP was supposed to demonstrate the future of handheld gaming - it didn't. PSP was supposed to kill iPods - it didn't. PSP was supposed to usher a new era of portable entertainment - it sure hasn't. And I hope you're not thinking about 'cool' new features like a proprietary email client and GPS. Already I'm laughing so hard right now, it hurts. But it's also so painful because I'm just confused as to where Sony plans to take those useless features when there are so many other problems they need to fix. The only thing I'm waiting to try next on my PSP now is the PS1 emulation. I think that's the first smart move I've heard about the PSP since launch. So no, I'm not skeptical about the PSP because I like the DS - I'm skeptical because it has so many broken promises, goofball. And you're still just a gaming geek with no sense of the real world. And I still think $150 is the worst idea for the PSP because they need the money to keep the PSP going. It's still selling right now, why play with it?

yeah, yeah, pixelator. you can give me as little credit as you want, but if you look back on your notes, you'll see exactly where I beat you down. You were always ranting about how great the hardware is, when I told you it would be useless for sales. You were always ranting about the great browser, when I told you that nobody would care because the interface sucked. and look what happened - the NPD data shows sagging sales for the PSP, EA criticizing the PSP in public, still losing money on the hardware, lost momentum. How about when I said the DS software sales will keep up. Or how I pointed how lousy the PSP ports suck (I Personally never cared that the games were ports, but my one time bashing a PSP port - Tomb Raider - was due to really crapping porting). Or how about when I pointed out about having all those multimedia features won't do diddly squat? Given I was never an outspoken fanboy like yourself, I still own one, trying to compare both. Still looking for the next great game for the PSP. You're always a SPECS and NUMBERS TOOL, but never looking at the real world. And I've seen you flip back and forth as soon as the numbers changed, saying how PSP needs to shape up when the DS started to really go on a roll. I think this article is just a great place to put you back in your place, goon. Although it's funny how I run into you in other forums, and how much of an ass you look like there too.

So let me give you a few reasons why I think a $150 price point sux:
- the target audience - adult males ppl with lots of disposable income like me - already think $200 is a good price point. Lowering it would only concede to the public that the product isn't really worth the time. Show me one product where it recovered miraculously after a price drop after it sagging sales, and I'll give this point up.
- Nintendo makes HUGE margins off the DS hardware and software. They have so many ways to fight with Sony on a price war - better bundles, lowering the price themselves, giving partner incentives, advertising, etc. Getting into a price war with Nintendo will just SUCK for the PSP's bottom line
- Stringer is trying to turn Sony back around into a profit company. I doubt he wants one of his best divisions to start sinking. And the best way to sink the division is to create further weakness on one of it's key projects. In the real world, businesses know it takes alot more than price slashing to recover your business. Your partners are having doubts about your product, you didn't manage to eliminate the DS like you promised, your competitor managed to trounce you after 2 years on the market, and all those features are starting to look like gimmicks (ironic?) because it didn't make any gains on sales. Do you really think price slashing will solve all that?

So let's see, the only thing I agree with you on is lowering the dev kit price. yes a good start, but seeing some of the ports, I think they need to work on the dev kit a bit further. That will take more cash. hmmm, if you propose to lower the price point to $150 when you're already making a loss on the product, where's the cash going to come from? Another division? Great way to piss off the rest company. That's like asking your dad to hand over your brother's allowance because you spent all yours. Or taking money from your wife to fund your gambling/drinking addictions. Hmmm, pixelator, what's your proposal now? I never had glowing reviews about the PSP like you had, but considering that I own one and resisted all opportunities to eBay it, I don't want it to die either. Price slashing is a great way to kill your product.

Great,you made me rant for a gazillion pages again. Thanks alot, pixelator :P

A move like this only cheapens the PSP's image even further. It would've been better if the hilights were marketed better. It would most likely spell disaster for Sony's bottom line, while not improving the sales figures. And destroying the bottom line doesn't really help development all that much.

Totally agree with John. What's the point of all this? I hated the stupid kiosk idea with the DS, especially now that it has a browser, and this PSP Spot is even dumber, since the PSP came out with a browser on the console first. Is this just some idiotic exec's self indulgence?!