The real failure of the PSP has always been and will always be software sales. Because Sony has constructed a system that condones, nay, ENCOURAGES people to buy one with few or without any games at all (the horrible attach rate proves this), they have effectively made their hardware unit sales totally irrelevant. Say what you will about the GC's or the N64's disappointing numbers. At least they sold games with their units, not like this convergence Mp3 player/Failed format home/TV tuner/Homebrew station/PS2 port magnet/game player. I've actually seen people on campus here using the PSP solely as a cheap MP3 player. That's an attach ratio of ZERO, the lowest in history. Even the TurboGrafx's and the CD-I's and the damn Jaguar's all bought at least one game with it.
A sizable chunk of the PSP's userbase doesn't even care about games. And I'm not too keen on this "It's ok to be #2 in a two man race" crap. Sorry Ollie, but Sony, you guys spent the last 12 years talking about #1 is it and anything less was in last place and in the rear view mirror and all that. Now all of a sudden it's OK to lose in the marketplace. Nintendo had to take their licks, they faced the music, they endured the editorials, they endured the market stigma without excuse and without Nintendo-friendly media outlets. It's your turn to man up and take it, and learn from it, instead of wriggling and excuse-making like Nintendo did only 4 years ago.
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