gerg said:
"Distinct" is very similar to "different", yes. I think the word also suggests being more special and separate from the rest, as well. I hope that helps.
Ye, i understand now, thanks for the explanation!
gerg said:
Regarding your question, I don't want to deny that the volume of a console's games library alone cannot encourage someone to buy that console. However, I find it hard to believe that - for the vast majority of people, that is - the PSP's library isn't that large. It's not the case that the PSP only has five games, for example, such that the release of a sixth - however different or similar it is to other titles for the platform - would be a significant event. As a result, I don't think that if you've passed upon the PSP - despite its collection of, say, action adventure games - another one would be especially convincing, unless that title was especially unique in some way or another. I don't think the problem was ever that there weren't enough action adventure games on the PSP, but that people weren't interested in them on the whole.
Ultimately, what I can say about the effect the PSP's line-up could have on its sales is limited by my relative (lack of) knowledge about it. As a result, if people can correct me on the matter, please do. I have the feeling I may be out of my depth here.
Unfortunately it is near impossible to say for sure what the exact reason(s) is why people in general buys a PSP, so i cant really argue too much against what you say
But if we look at how much MHP2G and the PSP has sold this year using garaph.info, then MHP2G has sold 725,134 copies and the PSP has sold 1,328,996 units.
If we assume that every person who bought a PSP mostly/only because of MHP2G so far in 2009, then there are 603,832 persons who bought a PSP without buying MHP2G so far this year, unless i have missread some numbers. That is a bit over 45% if i am not mistaken. Unfortunately i dont know how accurate it is to assume 725,134 that people bought a PSP mostly/only because of MHP2G in this period, but if this is the case, it shows that a bit over 45% of people bought a PSP for other reason(s) than MHP2G. It would also mean that about 55% of the people bought a PSP because of MH2PG, which is definitly a big percentage share in my opinion, but i also think that 45% is some people in this case at least
There might be a possibilty that the majority of people buys a PSP mostly because of MHP2G and then later on buys more games for the PSP now that they own the system. I dont know, but maybe some people might re-buy the PSP when a new color and/or a PSP bundle comes out. If this is the case, then they might not pick up MHP2G again (assuming that they already own a copy of MHP2G) if they re-buy a PSP. I dont know if the majority of people re-buys a PSP because of a new color and/or a PSP bundle though, but i just wanted to mention it anyway
But i definitly agree that MHP2G is a system seller for many people and that MHP2G is helping selling the PSP hardware quite a bit. MHP2G has have pretty good legs and i think this might be an indication that it is a system seller (as in when people buy a PSP now, many of these people might buy a PSP mainly because of MHP2G, and maybe for the other Monstser Hunter games as well). But after comparing how many PSP units that have been sold to how many copies of MHP2G that has been sold, i think that there might be a chance that serveral of people are interested in buying a PSP for other reasons than MHP2G as well. Maybe not the majority of people, but at least several of people
But unfortunately it is impossible to know for sure, so it is just guessing from my side
EDIT: By the way, i just searched for all PSP games on garaph.info and i found 306 PSP games. How many of these 306 games that are popular is another question though (i have very little experience with the PSP, so unfortunately i have no idea), but at least 306 games is a pretty good number of games, at least in my opinion
All of these 306 games probably arent that easy to find in Japan today though. I guess that what is more important for people who are going to buy a PSP today is how many PSP games that there are easy to get a hold of and to buy. Unfortunately i am not sure how many PSP games that are easily avalible in stores in general today, does anyone knows? It might be hard to know an exact number, but what about an aproximate number?