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PSP Outnumbers Nintendo DS Twenty to One

Its a funny thing to be disabused so thoroughly of a notion that you’ve got stuck in your head. In North America, Sony’s PSP is certainly playing second fiddle to Nintendo’s DS, but in Singapore at least, the situations are completely reversed. The PSP dominates here. Every train ride I’ve taken has multiple people banging away on their PSP’s - young, old, professional, student, solo, or group - its eclipsed only by the number of people with mobiles.

So far, I’ve seen about 40 PSP’s on the train, and a total of two DS’s. Perhaps the PSP’s layout is friendlier to train riders than juggling a stylus or tapping at the DS’s stacked screens, or perhaps the more expensive PSP is a conspicuous status symbol - who knows. But when I went out for dinner tonite, I noted a bank giving away PSP’s for opening an account - branding it as both desireable and mainstream - a powerful market position.