As someone who considers himself playstation fan, and was critical of it. I am glad it did poorly, but I really disliked the notion, that I was never the customer for this device to begin with.  

I wanted one, until i saw the game list.

While I love Sony and I've purchased every console they've ever made at least once (sometimes multiple times for myself and as gifts), I love taking every rare opportunity to make fun of their missteps, I'm not going to do that this time.
The PS1 classic never really stood a chance. Unlike 2D consoles, early 3D gaming had aged horrifically. No matter what games were in the library, you'd have a collection of games that were potentially incredible and innovative at the time but are vomit inducing by today's standards. Plus, while there is a but of 90s nostalgia, a lot of people just don't feel the same connection to PS1 games as they do to games from the 8-Bit and 16-Bit era. There was just increasingly more and more distractions at that time. Video games were just part of people's childhood and not the focus.

So why even make a PS1 classic?

Looking at all of the money Nintendo was raking in, it looks like a "no brainer" on paper. Could it have been executed better? Most definitely. You just don't have a lot of people willing to fork out money to play offline games with polygons so low, you can count them. Not when even below mediocre games today absolutely trounce some of the best games from that era.

For the record, I have absolutely no desire for an N64 Classic Mini, either. My fingers ache just thinking about it.

Would be hard to see people defending the product =p

I mean, the second the game list was released I was off board, but it just snowballed from there. Hopefully Sony listens and actually gives a shit with a revision. With Dualshocks, and you know...good games that are definitive of the PS1 library.

Some of the PS1 games I wouldn't mind playing again. However, there are better emulators out there.

Pretty much. It was handled awfully and seemed rushed. For something I figured was a sure fire thing, they sure botched it quite a bit.

Thanks! I can't just take people at their word without evidence. This will do nicely. :P

At least LABO sold over 1.5 million.

My older post

I think Fifth Generation games have aged poorly compared to the third and fourth generation. In addition, the nostalgia factor of the NES generation is very large and was a very important console for an industry that has been renovated due to it. Despite having sold less than PSone, the NES has a bigger story importance by really boosting the gaming market, while PSone has taken a lot more advantage of the incredible distribution network that Sony had to reach the global market, which already was thirsty for video games, just look at the number of NES clones that existed everywhere. These factors have to be considered, in addition the product of Nintendo is much more well done than that of Sony.