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Forums - Sony Discussion - PSP Surpasses GBA In Total Shipments! (82mil+) Sony Handheld Analysis, Vita Around 11mil Shipped? Or Something is Missing..

Nice. The PSP is a great handheld with some awesome games.



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Darwinianevolution said:
Kane1389 said:

So PSP is the 2nd best selling handheld of all time.

Pretty impressive considering it has almost no support from either Sony or 3rd party in later years due to rampant piracy and was competing against the beastly DS.


It's not the 2nd, it's the 3rd. DS sold 154 millions, and GameBoy 118 millions.


Gameboy and Gameboy colour togheter sold 118 million. I believe Ive read somewhere that GBC sold somewhere around 40M, the rest were GameBoy sales



Why are we comparing VHS to DVD? In other words, a whole generation behind. DS and PSP battled, not PSP and GBA. Still, facts are facts but they're presented in such a backwards manner.



Kane1389 said:

So PSP is the 2nd best selling handheld of all time.

Pretty impressive considering it has almost no support from either Sony or 3rd party in later years due to rampant piracy and was competing against the beastly DS.


PSP came without any security you was able to play pirated games in first months of it's release and didn't affect game sale by a lot then 3rd party abandoned it i don't know why.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

Kane1389 said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Kane1389 said:

So PSP is the 2nd best selling handheld of all time.

Pretty impressive considering it has almost no support from either Sony or 3rd party in later years due to rampant piracy and was competing against the beastly DS.


It's not the 2nd, it's the 3rd. DS sold 154 millions, and GameBoy 118 millions.


Gameboy and Gameboy colour togheter sold 118 million. I believe Ive read somewhere that GBC sold somewhere around 40M, the rest were GameBoy sales

Aren't both GB and GBC usually considered as the same console? I mean, you could play all GBC games on the original, and the only detriment was the lack of colour.



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Kane1389 said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Kane1389 said:

So PSP is the 2nd best selling handheld of all time.

Pretty impressive considering it has almost no support from either Sony or 3rd party in later years due to rampant piracy and was competing against the beastly DS.


It's not the 2nd, it's the 3rd. DS sold 154 millions, and GameBoy 118 millions.


Gameboy and Gameboy colour togheter sold 118 million. I believe Ive read somewhere that GBC sold somewhere around 40M, the rest were GameBoy sales

Its still one HH, we arent going to split Vita TV from Vita and N3ds from 3ds. Same here^ Also psp had different revisions too, no?



tbone51 said:

Its still one HH, we arent going to split Vita TV from Vita and N3ds from 3ds. Same here^ Also psp had different revisions too, no?


This is correct.
GB and GBC difference is the same like 3DS and N3DS.
Vita sales are maybe below 10m sold through because of big initial shipments for PS (Vita) TV in North America and Europe

93.5m shipped for PSP + Vita + Vita TV combined.
If u assume 82m+ PSP sold through, that would fit



Kane1389 said:
Darwinianevolution said:
Kane1389 said:

So PSP is the 2nd best selling handheld of all time.

Pretty impressive considering it has almost no support from either Sony or 3rd party in later years due to rampant piracy and was competing against the beastly DS.


It's not the 2nd, it's the 3rd. DS sold 154 millions, and GameBoy 118 millions.


Gameboy and Gameboy colour togheter sold 118 million. I believe Ive read somewhere that GBC sold somewhere around 40M, the rest were GameBoy sales

The Color was the DSi to the DS. About 60 games were unique to the hardware.

 

To put that into perspective, there are about 120 Xbox 360 Kinect games.



Well done PSP! I Imagine it would have approached 100m if sony were as competent at redesigning hardware as Nintendo are. Just like Vita slim, all the PSPs that followed felt cheap- whereas Nintendo always present the opposite spectrum, increasing value with each iteration. Sales suggest the latter tactic is the better one in the handheld space.

I guess the question now is whether the 3DS can surpass the PSP?



Yeah guys so there are 93.65 M shipments of PSP+PSV

My guess from my first post is that there are ~83.4M PSP shipped and ~10.25M PSV shipped.



Prediction: End of 2015 Hardware sales (as of January 20, 2015)

Wii U: 12.1M | XBO: 19.8M | PS4: 36.0M | 3DS: 58.5M | PSV: 11.7M