Should the PSP be viewed as a succes or a failure?

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z64dan said:

RolStoppable said:

your mother said:

z64dan said:

 

...22 million people decided to buy a PSP instead of a DS and an extra game.

Not necessarily. A percentage of those 22 million could have purchased both portables.

 

Or wouldn't have considered to purchase a DS at all.

Well. I think you can pretty much add all of the PSP sales into a "Money Spent on Gaming" category. Since money is finite, Nintendo did not get THAT money, definitely. They would have had a much higher chance of getting any of that money, if people weren't already buying a PSP.

Well I agree that they didn't get that money, but the handheld market doubled in size since the GBA era, so they are getting much more money than ever.  You can probably thank the PSP partially for market expansion, as many people (myself included) felt it necessary to own both.  Either way though Nintendo could care less about the PSP, in fact they should be shaking Sony's hand and saying "Thanks for making us more money than last gen! Oh and thanks for the PS3 too, man you have no idea what that system has done for Wii sales."

Again, not a failure, but not hurting Nintendo.