Thought Exercise: Could Nintendo Fly Solo?

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Deguello said:
Better Questions would be if Sony or Microsoft could fly solo.

The PSP is the answer to Sony's hypothetical. Yeesh. Most of the PSP's third party games just flop hard, and the 1st party games either suck and/or also flop hard. They basically have to go it alone, and as a result you have a platform with the least enthusiastic userbase in history and possibly the lowest software tie ratio since the Sega Pico.

huh?? HUH?? Did I just read what you just said? 

http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&console=PSP&publisher=&sort=Total

Sorry but I see the PSP chart completely dominated by third party titles, with the only first part million sellers coming in at #8 and #10. That is NOT the definition of flying solo.

http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&console=GC&publisher=&sort=Total

THAT, is flying solo. The PSP had a tonne of third party support but sales just flopped in general (With the exception of GTA Liberty City Stories, but can anyone deny that the only reason the sales of that game are so high is because it had a bug which allowed you to run your own code and game backups?). Sales didn't flop because Sony had no third party support. Sales flopped because we'd seen all the games before.