IGN点评11月PSP，“苦战”加“全坟”

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原帖链接 http://psp.ign.com/articles/105/1054350p1.html


首先是首页的一张图，PSP果然棒！

December 10, 2009 - The NPD Group on Thursday released November videogame software and hardware sales figures and just about every system saw a massive surge in units purchased. Consumers gobbled up more than a 1.2 million Wii consoles, 820,000 Xbox 360s, 710,000 PlayStation 3s and a whopping 1.7 million DS handhelds during the busy month. Unfortunately for Sony, shoppers were not similarly inspired to invest in more PSPs, even with the publisher's new Go on the market. Only 293,000 PSPs in total were taken home in November, according to NPD.
12月10日，NPD集团在周四公布了11月的视频游戏软硬件销量排行。几乎每个游戏平台都有如排山倒海般的销量增长。在这个纷繁的11月，Wii卖了超过120万，82万台360，71万台PS3和多到灰常的170万台DS掌机。不幸的是：索尼。消费者们并没有像对待其它主机那样的热情对待他们的PSP。即便有狗狗助威，NPD仍然表示11月只有29万3千台PSP被卖掉。


An analysis of PSP (and the more recent Go) throughout the year provides a clearer picture of the uphill battle that faces Sony as it struggles to carve out a place for its handheld in a sector dominated by Nintendo.
一份清晰的对PSP和最近出的狗狗在本年度内表现的研究表明，索尼正在掌机领域进行着一场艰难的追赶任天堂的战斗，以试图在销量榜上占据第二的位置。


Consider these revealing and disheartening facts. Since January, PSP has remained the worst-selling current-generation system every month except one. (In July, Sony's handheld outsold the then-languishing PS3 by a thousand units; enough to earn it the second-to-worst-selling platform for the month.) The discrepancy between PSP and PlayStation 2 sales -- and bear in mind, the latter console debuted in America nine years ago -- has stayed less than 50,000 units nearly every month this year. Indeed, the gap separating the two narrowed to only 10,000 units for several months and in April PS2 actually outsold Sony's portable.
对索尼这令人沮丧的现状思考一二。自从1月，属于PSP的一年开始以来，PSP就长期霸占着本世代主机最后一名的位置除开了7月，七月份超越了PS3抢占了倒数第二 ，PSP与PS2这台九年前就登录北美的霸王主机你追我赶，今年每个月的差距始终保持在5万以内，有几个月甚至只相差不到1万台。而在4月PS2甚至超越了PSP。


Sony's sold 1.8 million PSPs in the region through November, according to NPD figures. Re-read the first paragraph in this story: Nintendo sold 1.7 million DS handheld in November alone. Youch. By comparison, the Big N has amassed sales of 7.8 million DSs on the year stateside -- and the margin is widening, not narrowing.
根据NPD的报道，PSP在狗狗的助威下北美全年销售了180万台。重读一下第一段，任地狱在没有姥姥的情况下仅仅11月就销售了170万台DS。纳尼？根据统计，老任今年在北美销售了780万台DS，并且只多不少。


While pundits have proven critical of Sony's hardware reboot in PSP Go (IGN's Gear channel scored the system a 7.2 out of 10), which launched a few months ago, sluggish hardware sales can also be tied to a lackluster lineup. Take, for example, the best-selling PSP game in November. It wasn't in the Top 10. It wasn't in the Top 100. LittleBigPlanet nabbed number 107 on the overall best-sellers list with a paltry 42,000 in sales.

当任饭拼命攻击索尼的硬件销售不济之时，索青往往归咎于软件阵容的惨淡。就像我们之前报道过的新出品的P狗一样，它的惨淡也被归咎于PSN下载业务的失败。举例而言，11月最畅销的PSP游戏，它不在Top 10，竟然他X的不在Top 100，悲剧的小小大这个好游戏，它竟然在107位，仅仅贩卖了42000套。。。。