First of all, we’re not specialists in handhold console. This article is simple started with the real situation of portable game market in China. No subjective idea or individual criticism, but a pure presentation about the performance of NDS and PSP in China.

Let’s draw a conclusion at the beginning of the article: the number of PSP users in China is far more than the NDS crowd that any foreigners can’t hardly believe. You can easily find PSP in a supermarket, sometimes it can be a present of lucky draw and promotional events. Have a glance eyes in bus station, park, and snack bar, you would notice that there are so many familiar consoles. Not only the teenagers like it, but its consumer ranges from under 10 to fifties. It’s a PSP paradise. How does this fascinating machine make it?

On a conservative estimate, PSP had sold two million in China, ten times than NDS. Though Sony do not release the official licence version in China, PSP have already become the hot consumer goods. We did a survey among some well-known Chinese PSP forums with questionnaires. Here’re some representative replies on this puzzled matter.

~ PSP is a portable multimedia player rather than just a game rectangle box. Office workers make it as MP4 player during their long drive, housewives sometimes watch big-budget movies in their spare time. Pupils wanna keep up with their classmates so they have to follow the fashion.

~ For some hardcore gamers who are still carring memories of those classical games. PSP makes it become truth. Various kinds of emulators bring them back to the past, the great sweet past. Here’re many people buying PSP for the purpose of it in China, it’s reality.

~ Homebrew is another highlight and therefore many people dive into it in different ways. Some of them are hacking and developing, while others are just grumbling about everthing they want. The forum is full of request and dispute, the people passby notice their topics and then spread them. So PSP becomes well-known.

~ The advantage of graphic representation and sound effects shock every portable console gamers. For more and more people emphasize on amazing pictures and 3D CGs, PSP is their only best chioce. They hold a concept that PSP can do more things even if the games do not achieve their needs.

Well, that’s the main ideas comparing PSP and NDS in China. Maybe the same or similar thing takes place in you hometown even beside you. There’re reasons to make it clear.