| oniyide said: ^^^thats not true, their was Game Gear and Lynx, they just couldnt move the units that Game Boy was doing. PSP is the only one to release and not get its ass TOTALLY kicked. most successful non-Ninty portable made |
It's true really. The only reason why the PSP is considered "not successful" is because it's only compared with the sales performance of the DS line, which will likely end up as the best selling console/handheld of all time.
Considering SCE went from 0% marketshare to over 30% in a single generation over a period of more than 5 years (meaning it wasn't prematurely axed), it did pretty well if the expectation wasn't that the PSP should have been the handheld market leader.
According the SCE's 2/25/11 press release, "Since launching in 2005, the PSP system has sold more than 23 million* units in North America and 67.8 million worldwide"
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/110228_e.html
No other non-Nintendo handheld has come anywhere remotely even close to those numbers. Game Gear at 11m is the next best seller.
But make no mistake; the PSP is a dying platform on its last legs and it will be interesting to see how long SCE keeps it in production after the debut of the NGP. It likely depends entirely upon the margins they're making on each unit at $129 and whether they can sell them even cheaper and still remain profitable.
