The best-selling third party handheld game of all time.
It's sort of strange that right at the start, third parties approached PSP as a major part of their strategy moreso than they ever did Game Boy... And the top tier games, specifically GTA, had very impressive sales, but there wasn't an entire ecosystem from shovelware up through elite franchises all selling well.
Now DS, which started with just the trash from third parties, has built up to where it is getting the elite games PSP once did. It will be interesting to see if games like Guitar Hero: On Tour, Dragon Quest 9, or the DS version of GTA, will be able to reach the incredible sales of LCS.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
