Sony: Half of PS3 owners also have a PSP

by Alan Tsang { Nov 18th 2008 at 3:16PM }

According Capcom's vice president of strategic planning and business development Christian Svensson, Sony's data indicates that approximately 50% of PS3 owners are also PSP owners. Svensson made the comment on the official Capcom forums in a thread that was discussing the possibility of the newly launched adhocParty making it stateside. "An interesting note from Sony's data that they've been sharing with us ... about 50% of PS3 owners, also own a PSP." We are unsure of whether the data was collected from around the world or just in the US.

Does this statistic sound right to you? Do most of you who have a PS3 also own Sony's handheld?

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mindshed @ Nov 18th 2008 3:31PM

Yes. But I also happen to be a PS360 guy. Or maybe I'm a PS(P)360 guy? I dunno. I spend too much money for a college guy is the point. I'm a Sony fanboy at heart though.

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread - XBL: SoCoolCurt) @ Nov 19th 2008 12:08PM

me too. i work 2 jobs during the summer just so i can save up enough money to pay my college tuition and still support my gaming.

and i actually own every major gaming system. DS, PSP, Wii, PS3, and 360 (bought in that order and with a DS Lite upgrade in there somewhere). so yea i own both a PS3 and PSP, both of which i bought a few months after their respective launches. i used to only play Playstation products and Nintendo handhelds so it was natural for me to buy both. i just have more money this gen than last gen so that caused me to broaden my gaming horizon with the other systems.

ruibing @ Nov 18th 2008 3:35PM

Yep, I got my PSP-2000 about half a year after I got my PS3.

Eric E @ Nov 18th 2008 4:18PM

mine was closer to a year, mostly b/c of the remote play features.

cafecito @ Nov 18th 2008 3:37PM

I own a PSP but not a PS3. In fact, I'm planning to get a 360 instead. Games in that platform look much more appealing to me.

Warner Young @ Nov 18th 2008 3:43PM

I got a PSP right from the start, but it wasn't until LittleBigPlanet was announced (and got close to release) that I decided I really wanted a PS3.

I think it's still a question of content. If a console has something you want, you'll get it. Otherwise, no amount of "synergy" is going to make someone buy 2 systems just because they can work together in some way.

mindshed @ Nov 18th 2008 3:52PM

I bought the ps3 because my fanboy-dom did not subside from the ps1/2 era, although based on the games available, the 360 is really the best choice for me right now.

The same thing happened with the transition from SNES to N64. I bought the N64 even though the games didn't interest me because I was a fanboy from NES/SNES era and I was thinking, "No games NOW, but certainly in the future!...?" I ended up getting a PS1 and my N64 went largely unused. I hope this doesn't happen with my PS3, but so far it's looking to be that way.

Shoyz @ Nov 18th 2008 4:13PM

PSP: Yes
PS3: No

Wii seems to have the Innovation, Xbox360 seems to have the games, and the PS3 seems to have the Price (I don't see why you'd get one unless you were rich and felt like sharing to all your friends "I HAVE A PS3, SUCKERS!!").

Eric E @ Nov 18th 2008 4:25PM

haha its more expensive for a 360.
a 60gb 360 is $300
+WiFi $100
---------------------
= $400 + $50 a year for online

I got a 60gb ps3 for $400
and i got a bluRay player, Memory Card reader and PS1/PS2 library and remote play fun. and 5 free bluRays

or now you get 20gb more free for $400 plus $100 Gift card.

Korea @ Nov 18th 2008 4:44PM

Um how about Little Big Planet, PixelJunk Monsters and Eden for inovation. And when it comes to games most of the consoles all have the same games other than a few.

Xbox360: mass effect, halo's, left 4 dead, forza, gears of war, fable etc...

PS3: wipeout HD, uncharted: drake's fortune, resitance 1/2, LBP, MGS4 etc....

I think that just comes down to preference. And as for price I'll take the larger HD, bluray, wi-fi and free online play for 400 thankyou.

Khaled @ Nov 18th 2008 7:12PM

Korea- You forgot Killzone & Gran Turismo 5!

Shoyz @ Nov 18th 2008 10:35PM

It's been said that the 360 has better online service, much obliged to the fact that since you have to pay, Microsoft has to provide a service worth paying for.

Anyways, when we're talking about consoles, we're talking about consoles. Backing up a console's faults with it's games shows a clear weakness IMO.

For the Price; I saw an Adapter and a 20Gig HD (God knows why you'd need more than that) for $50 each. That's $300 for a 360, an adapter, and an HD. Wait, the Online service is $50 for a WHOLE YEAR? WOOAH. That's less than the cost of 1 game for one -year- of service, compared to the average 10 hours or so of gameplay 1 game would usually give you. Blow me.

Soo.. 20Gig XBOX360, and the entire xbox library for $300. I don't see where that $100 gift card and 5 Blurays offer is, sadly. SO, unless $100 is worth a memory reader and 40GB storage you don't need, I don't see the point.

Korea: Those are games. I'm talking about -consoles-. As for the last points, the 'larger hd'? XBOX360 has a 120GB one, if that's what you care about most. Bluray is probably gonna die. Wifi was already discussed, and your 'free online play' sucks in comparison to Xbox's service.

I don't own any of the 3 consoles yet, I just thought that you guys were being gigantic PS3Fanboys. >:

PSN: Erdie @ Nov 18th 2008 10:23PM

Yep, what Korea said. Many of my favorite developers are either part of SCEA or have their games published exclusively by Sony. That was reason enough for me to pick it up.

WhiteShield @ Nov 18th 2008 4:34PM

yay! i'm included in something. but for me it would really be a psp owner that owns a ps3

Korea @ Nov 19th 2008 1:29AM

Yep I own a PS3 and 2 PSP's a Hacked Fat and a Legit Slim.

I Love Sony.

--Korea

Dr. Strangepork @ Nov 18th 2008 4:40PM

I think I initially looked at a PS3 b/c I already had a PSP which I bought used from a co-worker for $90. I frankly don't use that all that much together as I've found remote play flaky and other uses few and far between.

Nonetheless, having one opened the door to considering the other.

bryan @ Nov 18th 2008 4:41PM

its more like a quarter of psp owners have ps3's if you ask me. everyone i know with a ps3 says they dont do handheld gaming i always try to convince then into geting a psp. on a other note anyone think microsoft is gona step into the handheld market?

James @ Nov 18th 2008 7:07PM

It's unlikely that Microsoft will attempt to break into the handheld market for multiple reasons, including the current recession. It doesn't make sense for them to be breaking into a new market when there is no reason to do so.

aj @ Nov 18th 2008 8:12PM

Microsoft probably wouldn't be able to do well in the handheld market. They'd never release anything that wasn't high tech and expensive, but they also don't want to be where Sony is right now with the PSP. (When the PSP starts selling like mad, or if some handheld in the future that looks like a console experience does, then Microsoft will probably want in and release something that won't work and only have FPSs on it....)

PSN: Puselva @ Nov 18th 2008 4:49PM

Yes, I own both.

@Shoyz: I'm not rich; I got the PS3 because most of the games on the 360 are also on the PS3 (FPSs aren't my favorite genre anyways), and with the PS3 I never have to worry about whether my system will be working in order to play the games. Having a ton of good games (which I freely admit 360 does) is meaningless if your system is off somewhere getting fixed. I know the RROD isn't as big an issue now, but when I bought my PS3 it was.

@mindshed: I feel you on the N64 thing, I did the same, but in this era of diminishing exclusives I don't think it's as big a deal as it used to be.

@bryan: Zune? Maybe just expand on that instead of a true competitor?

lorddshadow2 @ Nov 18th 2008 5:24PM

you bet! i got my psp-1000 at launch and my star wars ceramic white psp-2000 at launch too. then i got my ps3 when the mgs4 bundle came out. god i love both of them. the sad thing is that i was horribly bored with my psp until i hacked it. what's sadder is that i mostly play super mario brothers 3. :(

luckily my interest in ps3 is rising everyday.

Longhart @ Nov 18th 2008 5:28PM

yup i got both psp slim and ps3.I recently bought ps3 early this november heck i bought my psp last year in late november 2007.So i bought psp first then my ps3.

Jacksons @ Nov 18th 2008 8:01PM

Change the Novembers to Octobers and that's my scenario.

aj @ Nov 18th 2008 8:08PM

I only own a PSP, and will only ever buy a PS3 when the price drops down to 50$ or so and Final Fantasy XIII and XIV are both 10$ used.

And I find it incredibly stupid that Sony will probably use the 50% figure to turn the PSP into an extension of the PS3, so that people who own a PSP won't be able to play anything, really, unless they've got their PS3 hooked up and ready to go. I DON'T WANT a 500$ add-on for my PSP. I've already paid too much for extras for my PSP that should have come in the box. I'm not giving any more money to Sony.

Jacksons @ Nov 18th 2008 10:14PM

I hear they're replacing UMDs with a blu-ray disc and a reeeally long USB cable!

Kilo720 @ Nov 18th 2008 8:27PM

yes

Icedragon2k @ Nov 18th 2008 8:35PM

I own both systems. I got my PS3 about 6 months before my PSP and I like how they're trying to incorporate more things to work between systems. I have a japanese psn account and I downloaded the ad-hoc party beta and it is absolutely AMAZING. Finally I can play multiplayer without having to be near each other. Even though there are some lag issues this is one of Sony's better ideas. I never figured out XlinkKai. Hopefully they'll release it stateside and fix the bugs and things because this could turn out to be a very successful thing.

TM @ Nov 18th 2008 10:03PM

does adhocparty work for previous psp games like Battlefront 2, Killzone, Force Unleashed, Rainbow Six Vegas etc.?

Icedragon2k @ Nov 19th 2008 5:17PM

This is a link to all the games that ad-hoc party works with. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=341216 This is just what has been tempted. We'll have to wait to see if more games work with it.

Jared MacKenzie @ Nov 18th 2008 8:47PM

I do confirm I do have a PSP and a PS3. I got the PSP after I bought the PS3, partly due to remote play and I wanted to play emulators on a better screen than the Nintendo DS. I also have a Wii and a DS, and a Gamecube and a Gameboy Advance.

themizarkshow @ Nov 18th 2008 9:34PM

I got my PSP a few months before the PS3. It actually pushed me towards the PS3 instead of the 360. I wasn't sure which I would do when I had the cash, but whenever I give Sony a chance they always wow me.

TM @ Nov 18th 2008 9:59PM

I don't own a ps3 and will not because the price is so high. If they lowered it to $100 ever I would consider it

Jeremy @ Nov 18th 2008 10:33PM

I've got a PSP (2 PSPs, 1001 and 2001) and a 360. I wanted a PS3, just couldn't justify buying a PS3 for the price ($500 when I bought the 360 for $300). I don't have a HDTV or Wireless internet, so I didn't need a blu ray player.

I gotta say, if Sony treats the PSP as a PS3 peripheral I won't be too happy. I bought the PSP as a gaming platform. Up until 2008, I was happy with it as one. But then the games stopped coming.

Virtuous @ Nov 18th 2008 11:08PM

The other half own either a DS or iPhone or both.

Korea @ Nov 19th 2008 9:58AM

For Shoyz;

One if you don't judge a console with its games then there really isn't much point; the ps3 would win easily (bluray).

Anyways 50 dollars for online service is alot like you said thats a full game (which most last me more than 10 hours) Also since you don't own any of the consoles don't you think its a little unfair to say that xbox live > PSN? PSN works fine and I run into very little lag, it has trophies and a good friend system. And as much as I can tell Xboxlive and PSN arn't down more than the other (you just have to pay for one).

No matter what you say about HD's ( I would go with the $300 xbox with the 60gb) You're going to need more than 20gb. Its really nice tossing a bunch of downloaded titles or music/movies on it. Also the top of the line ps3 has 160gb. 160>120 (if you can ever fill that up)

When you say entire xbox library are you referring to a modded box?

Different promotions happen; I bought my ps3 with my flatscreen and got 100 off. WOOT! Sony 40" 1080p LCD btw.

For one thing bluray is not going to die. There are already 13 million bluray players (ps3's) and that is a sizeable market. I rock the netflix, blurays in the mail!

And wifi isn't discussed, I'm not talking best deal lets build a xbox 360. I'm comparing consoles in there stock form against each other. An official xbox wifi adaptor is 99.99.

Yet again to reiterate you can't say PSN sucks in comparison to Xbox live when you don't own either systems. Idiot.

--Korea

Dr Haisook @ Nov 19th 2008 7:32AM

I own a PSP and I'd like to get a PS3 of course, but I'm really out of time all the time! I barely have time for the PSP.

Dr Haisook @ Nov 19th 2008 7:35AM

And *off-topic*, if the quality of the PSP's built will deteriorate with every reiteration, I'm not upgrading.

hurt @ Nov 19th 2008 1:15PM

Count me down for both.

Mazrael @ Nov 19th 2008 10:23PM

I got a PSP slim.. it sits beneath my TV collecting dust.. My 360 is the only games 'machine' I bother with, with a ton of games.. got about 5 games for my PSP, most of which have been played for 30minutes..

PS3 is the only one I don't have, because in my opinion, it doesn't have enough to offer me.. each E3 seems to be a last ditch sales attempt from Gil of the Simpsons..

BT @ Nov 20th 2008 3:30AM

Got both - I use my ps3 as more of a media hub than anything....I haven't bought a whole lot of games b/c all of the demos I get from PSN suffice... got a short attention span for games. it's been great since they added Divx... wished they would add that to the psp...

The remoteplay feature is cool, esp if you have a media cable to out the psp to a tv when you're away. Sony should expand on this concept and allow the streaming of the PS3 media (music, photos, and movies) to other devices - then it will become the media hub that they've hoped it would. I initially had an xbox but traded it in for a PS3 since once you add the wifi adapter and hard drive, the price got up there too. I love the fact that sony decided to go with a stock sata laptop drive in the ps3... upgraded mine to a 320GB for all of the movies and demos I have on there.

yamerias @ Nov 20th 2008 5:05AM

I have a PSP (Phat) and a 60Gb PS3, but I got my PSP first, not just as a mobile gaming system, but also as a mobile media player.

I got a PS3 because I like the games on it, and being a BluRay player is a bonus too.

JaffaBoy @ Nov 24th 2008 11:52AM

PS3: 60Gb (now 250Gb)
PSP: 2000

Got PSP to put movies etc onto so I could watch things on way to work (as well as play games). Then PlayTV would allow me to copy recordings stright from PS3 to PSP (as I'm not in a hotspot)...oh.....no..... Sony doesnt allow that..... Grrrrrrr....

So now; record on PS3 (PlayTV), export to 'Video', copy to PC, convert to PSP, copy to PSP, watch on train/coach

Oh well..... :-(