The most successful loser-review PSP 10 years of history, although the defeat is still proud!

Sony recently announced that its first handheld PSP (full name PlayStation Portable) will be in the end of June 2014 in Japan to stop shipments, the end of this year will be full 10-year-old PSP official curtain call. For domestic players, the PSP may have more influence than the red and white machines. Looking back over the course of 10 years, can not help but make people filled with emotion ...

As the PS family for the first time to enter the Palm machine attempt, the PSP has been seen as a Sony unified game of the world's important link. As early as the 2003 E3 exhibition, the PSP name was first announced, and began to develop the palm machine is a few years ago Sony started.

At that time, the background is that the host of the overall situation has been set, with the King host PS2 Outstanding performance, Sony has long been a solo show. Whether it's the Nintendo NGC, Sega DC, or the new Microsoft Xbox, it doesn't pose a threat to Sony PS2.

Once the king of Nintendo, then the host of NGC even in the global market behind the novice Xbox, can only rely on GBA in the palm of the field of income to a last-ditch struggle.

When the PSP was first unveiled in 2003, E3 was seen as the last hit by Sony for Nintendo. As the PSP specifications, performance, or the gradual disclosure of the game, the player's expectations are increasing. In contrast, the performance of NDS is much weaker. Kyodoryan said the PSP is like SCE's little daughter, which is also the origin of the domestic players jokingly called "Little Princess"

The 2004 Tokyo video games, once seen as the heyday of Sony's solo, PSP is expected to be announced on September 21, the launch of the sale date, price and other specific circumstances.

However, Nintendo surprised the surprise: one hour before the Sony show, Nintendo held a press conference announcing the sale date and price of its latest handheld NDS. Whether the December 2, 2004 sale day, or only 15000 yen (US $150) of the price, are set for the PSP: the PSP before the media agreed on the sale date is December 3, the price is even have a 500 dollar rumors.

Sony had to temporarily change the plan, at the press conference did not release the sale date and price, but has been postponed until October 27 before the official announcement, and the price of 19800 yen also let a lot of people on the conscience.

December 2004, NDS and PSP have been sold in Japan, a pair of old enemies of infighting, love to kill from the last 10 years. PSP Debut

At the beginning of the release, PSP and NDS are still in a state of stalemate. Although the Nintendo tradition of the end of the year-end commercial power, NDS only 4 weeks to break the million (PSP time 14 weeks), but by the end of January 2005, the PSP week sales have started for 10 consecutive weeks over NDS.

March 2005, the PSP sold in the United States, although the price of up to 250 U.S. dollars, but players are still scrambling to buy, the PSP in short supply. In the face of a good situation, the media and players generally believe that the PSP will win the Battle of the ultimate victory of the machine. GTA is the world's highest-selling game on the PSP.

However, the start of the software boom, the empty window period both sales have a significant decline, through the difficult months after the Nintendo began to release a big trick ...

April 21, 2005, "Nintendogs Dog" on sale, and obtained Fami magazine's full marks evaluation, May 19, 2005, commonly known as "brain Platinum" "脳 を forged える adults のdsトレーニング" on sale, June 20, 2005, commonly known as "Brain Easy" "やわらかあたま Dual-screen touch brings a unique experience that triggers a buying frenzy.

In Japan, the brain easily sold 1.58 million, melatonin sold 3.8 million, as the dog sold 2.08 million, and Nintendo's global sales even up to 23.96 million! Since then NDS not only in Japan, Europe and the United States and other regions sold far away from the PSP.

Since then, the PSP has long been suppressed, Nintendo's "Touch Century" has been a great success. By the end of the 2005, with "Animal Sen", "Mario Car ds" and "Brain Platinum 2" ace three Combo, NDS even created 4 weeks in Japan to sell 1.7 million of the success! This time the PSP's cumulative sales volume was only 2.67 million.

March 2, 2006, the improved version of NDS: NDS Lite officially on sale, in terms of appearance, portability and so on has been significantly improved, and sparked a frenzy of popular panic. With the 2006-year sale of the housekeeping masterpiece "New Super Mario Brothers" and "Pokemon Diamond/Pearl", Nintendo went into a state of violence, until the beginning of September 2007, up to 1.5 of the time, NDSL's Japanese weekly sales only once less than 100,000!

At this time of cumulative sales, NDS for 19 million, PSP only 5.8 million, "New Super Mario Brothers" also created Japan 6.42 million, the world's 30.75 million sales record.

Overall downturn in the case, a first and not many people focus on the game has changed the fate of the PSP. Transplanted from PS2 "Monster Hunter G" (MHP) in December 2005 on the PSP, sold only 118,000 in the first week, but the final sales reached 668,000, the cheap version of even more than million!

This number is far more than the previous PSP game top sales: The first game "Volkswagen Golf carry Version" of 399,000, for the handheld machine to do a number of adjustments is one of the elements of its success.

February 22, 2007, the continuation of the "Monster Hunter carrying version 2" (MHP2) on sale, the first week that 746,000 of the sales of the PSP is the most sales of the game, the final sales volume of 1.72 million.

September 20, 2007, the PSP's second model PSP2000 for sale, compared to the initial generation of light and light, and increased the function of video output. PSP2000 The first week of sales of 260,000 (including 1000), PSP from the Fast Lane, and in the weekly sales side of the short term to overtake NDS.

March 27, 2008, "Monster Hunter carrying version 2G" (mhp2g) on sale, the first week of sales of 820,000, the cumulative sales of more than 4 million (including cheap version)! Monster Hunters are also officially promoted to the ranks of the national game, and sparked the upsurge of the fight-like game, and even created a cheap version also sold millions of myths. MHP2G is the iconic work of a monster hunter moving towards a Japanese national game.

Monster Hunter series of success in addition to their own good quality, in the design of ideas also borrowed a lot of Nintendo game success. "Collect, nurture, exchange, Fight", the latter two in the Monster Hunter staged into a multiplayer mode of cooperation. With WiFi and internet, you can even fight with other players in the field! Many people buy game consoles and games to play with friends, which is one of the factors that make the Monster Hunter series explode.

December 2010, "Monster Hunter carrying version 3" (MHP3) sold 2.14 million in the first week, the cumulative sales of 4.5 million, easily become the PSP's highest sales game, its explosive power even more than a lot of former national games.

Maybe it's not fair to talk about monster hunters, but the numbers mean everything: the only 4 millions of games on the PSP are "Monster Hunter" series! The 3DS, the Monster Hunter 4, was also seen as an important reason for PSV's poor sales. PSP Japan million only Monster Hunter series

August 2009, PSP sales breakthrough Tens of millions, a year after the breakthrough of 15 million, the growth rate significantly increased, and in 2010 for the first year of sales over NDS and has been maintained so far. The acceleration of the popularity of hardware also brought more games, on the other hand, the number of NDS to become saturated, the touch of the craze is gradually receding, but the lack of hardware is the picture gap is becoming more and more obvious. Slide Design psp Go is considered black history

In June 2010, Nintendo announced the 3DS on the E3, the center of gravity is also transferred to the new Palm machine, NDS sales also followed gradually lower, and the PSP until this year still has "ghost biography" and other works, can be truly "ten years of war."

and Japan or Europe and the United States, the situation is very different, the PSP in mainland China's popularity far more than the opponent NDS, sales of conservative estimates also have millions of units, of course, all of them are parallel imports ...

In the PSP's most fiery era, even the computer city or the digital square are everywhere to sell the machine, the occasion must have experienced the players are impressed. When the fire, the computer city everywhere PSP

Mention in China hot reason, naturally inseparable from the cracked, after the brush on homemade system PSP is not simply a game machine, but one of the most powerful portable entertainment equipment, but also not expensive Sony brand. At that time on the bus or on the subway, also often seen playing PSP, even seen as a fashion performance.

In that mobile phone screen is only 2.4 inches of the era, the PSP 4.3-inch sharp big screen is undoubtedly reading or watching the artifact. Game, not only the PSP game everywhere, all kinds of simulators can easily play to PS before the previous Generations console arcade game, of course, PS game to be cracked official simulator ...

The PSP's selling even dramatically promoted the sale of Sony's memory sticks, even the creation of the term "group bar" ... The collateral extension Memory stick and UMD standard is one of the PSP's purposes, but the final memory stick is in the SD and TF cards, and the UMD has been declared a failure very early.

The popularity of the PSP also has a variety of shanzhai and imitation psp MP4, MP5, excitedly to buy the PSP students to get back a certain brand of "PSP", this situation is not uncommon ... Shanzhai version of PSP Variety

Although unable to statistics accurate data, but the PSP in the domestic sales estimate is second only to the red and white machine, and the latter also includes a large number of small overlord and other compatible machines. Perhaps we are no longer taking out the PSP, but it has become a part of the memory of youth.

From the overall strategy, the PSP is a failure, it not only failed to beat Nintendo's Palm machine, completely defeated Nintendo, but visual each other to create the Palm machine and even all the highest record of the game machine: Global sales 154 million, and even Nintendo occasion also in the mainframe sales have turned a back plate.

But even if it fails, the PSP is the most successful loser. 76 million of the world's sales are far more than all of Nintendo's handheld machines, even more than Nintendo's two-generation host: FC (red and white, global 61.91 million) and SFC (over 49.1 million). PSP vs NDS Japan Sales Trend Chart

In Japan, the PSP's total sales of 19.67 million, compared to its higher game machine only NDS, GB, PS2 and PS, the Japanese market in the NDS and PSP combined with the official entry into the era of the main palm machine. In mainland China, PSP sales and influence is far more than NDS. Today, the author of the PSP1000 still normal service, and often take out a review of the Royal Knights: The Wheel of Fortune, "iron Fist 6" and other classic games.

Although the PSP is about to stop production, but its successor PSV already war. In the face of the 3DS strong, PSV also need monster Hunter as a new masterpiece to detonate sales, and in addition, perhaps Sony more need to adjust the "handheld at any time to play home computer game" mentality.