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

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Tispower said:
I know a lot of people said it is a failure because it make little/no money. But wasn't that the whole point of the original xBox, to lose money, but to help it's successor. If the xBox had only sold say 10mil, how many sale do you think the 360 would have lost? Fact of the matter is, Sony has a userbase of 20mil for when PSP2 comes out. Also in reagrdto piracy, I know no one personally who uses pirated games for either their PSP or DS. As I've heard you can get pirtated games for your DS just as easily. Perhaps the reason I don't know anyone that does it, is becuase most of us here in the UK are law abiding :P or maybe not...

I think I've touched on this earlier in the thread but IF Sony releases a PSP2 will it draw the same crowd? Sony has learned the hard way that you can't leave your system wide open to homebrew/piracy without some catastrophic consequences. As a result you can bet that it's successor will be a MUCH harder nut to crack so will inevitably fail to be a huge hit amongst the homebrew crowd. Putting it another way, homebrew is to PSP what Mario is to a Nintendo system, take either away and the system loses much of it's appeal.

Regarding DS, yes you can play pirated software but you need extra hardware whereas PSP is just a case of software, thus much easier to implement not to mention cheaper/free!