I was going to reply to Gballzack's post in detail, but windbane already covered it.
Anyway, my point was that it's ridiculous to call it a failure just because it is being outsold by the DS. The DS just happens to be that one wildly popular console of the generation and it's outselling everything, so by that standard, everything is a failure. Was the N64 a failure because it was outsold by the PlayStation?
The PSP has sold over 20 million units in 2 years, and for the first 9 months of that first year, it wasn't even available in a major region(Europe). There's no doubt that it will surpass the Genesis and the N64, and at the rate it's going, it will surpass the SNES if it's left on the market for atleast 5 years, which it most likely will be.
A few years from now, this system will have outsold several other systems that aren't considered to be failures(Xbox 360, Xbox, Gamecube, Genesis, N64, possibly SNES), but the same people will still be calling it a failure, and the crux of their argument will still be "BUT IT WAS OUTSOLD BY THE DS!"
Consoles owned: Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, DS, PS3
