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by procrastitron 6419 days ago
"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.
2 comments
alecco 6419 days ago
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...

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mattmaroon 6419 days ago
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.

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