Next-Gen discusses the PSP's recent turnaround.

[LordTheNightKnight]

FreeTalkLive rocks! said:
A couples things.

Selling more than the Sega Genesis does not mean a system is a blockbuster, whatever that means.

Sony did well be making the PSP. Anyway you figure, it has to be considered a success.

Saying DS games are like GBA games and PSP games are like PS2 games is silly. One of the 1st games on the DS was Super Mario 64 DS. Could this game have even been made on a PS1? What about Zelda PH?

DS seems to focus on the casual, hardcore, and kiddie crowds. PSP seems to focus on the hardcore and media crowds. There is no way PSP will ever be able to best DS when DS has more hardcore games than the PSP.

Blockbuster originally meant people lining around the block. But nowadays, the term is applied to any movie, game, or game system that does really well. The Genesis sold 35 million, and is considered to have done really well. So if another system sells more, it would have done really well. Some may think the time difference changes the number, but it doesn't work that way. The NES, Genesis, and SNES may be way outsold by the PS1 and PS2, but that doen't downgrade their accepted status as blockbusters.

And price doesn't count either, since units sold is more like movie tickets sold, or song copies sold, not revenue, which is changed by inflation.