I think the market for a certain game (Monster Hunter) doesn't exist for the PSP outside of Japan. Also, pushing the PSP in the last year was 1Seg which is not available outside of Japan as well.
As far as NA and EU go the biggest hope I see for it is if they do a PS3/PSP bundle pack (to play off the Remote Play capabilities). I figure SONY is making approx $80/PSP on hardware (I figured it out once...) so if they could bundle it into a PS3 package it might extend the life of the PSP in NA and EU. I just don't see it having the legs to get to 80 million.
Personally I have this theory that they will launch a PSP2 with dual analog at the same time that they launch PS2 BC through software on the PS3. Make the PS2 games downloadable on the PSN and have them playable on the PSP2 and PS3. I see that day within 2 years imo. I refuse to believe that SONY is not going to find a way to milk the PS2 software catalog in the PS3 era.
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I think the market for a certain game (Monster Hunter) doesn't exist for the PSP outside of Japan. Also, pushing the PSP in the last year was 1Seg which is not available outside of Japan as well.
As far as NA and EU go the biggest hope I see for it is if they do a PS3/PSP bundle pack (to play off the Remote Play capabilities). I figure SONY is making approx $80/PSP on hardware (I figured it out once...) so if they could bundle it into a PS3 package it might extend the life of the PSP in NA and EU. I just don't see it having the legs to get to 80 million.
Personally I have this theory that they will launch a PSP2 with dual analog at the same time that they launch PS2 BC through software on the PS3. Make the PS2 games downloadable on the PSN and have them playable on the PSP2 and PS3. I see that day within 2 years imo. I refuse to believe that SONY is not going to find a way to milk the PS2 software catalog in the PS3 era.