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

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davygee said:

jstam said:
you really think that the psp is going to get a HUGE sales boost? i honestly doubt it will even make a dint on the charts, maybe an extra 50k for a couple of weeks but thats about it

 

I don't think the new look PSP will give the sales a huge boost, but the games coming out in the 3rd and 4th quarters as well as games over the start of next year WILL give the sales a boost.  Games like Chains of Olympus and FFVII: Crisis Core will undoubtably give the PSP a hardware boost although not to a ridiculous level.

The PSP has seen a continual hardware boost of around 13% each week since the pricedrops in both the EU and NA.  I reckon Sony WILL reduce the price of the original PSP once the new model is released on 1st September WW by maybe 20% or so and this will increase sales again.

All in all, I reckon the PSP will have more sales this year than they did last year.  The PSP is selling 500-600k units every 4 weeks so I reckon it will sell another 4-6m until the end of the year.

But will these extra PSPs sold help struggling software sales in any meaningfull way? Seriously if you were a developer what would convince you to make a game for the platform?