People are in this thread calling the PSP a failure? Based on the fact that it didn't outsell the PS1 and PS2 or the DS? What the hell, people? Anything that isn't the best ever is a failure? If that's the case, I hope these guys end up curing cancer or something. I mean, Kobe Bryant is a successful basketball player despite not being better than Michael Jordan. You can be a successful business person despite not doing better than your father or your neighbor. The PSP can be (and IS) a successful console--a GREAT success--despite not outselling the best selling portable console of all time or the two best selling home consoles of all time.
I don't get this "First place or nothing" mentality that only seems to be in the video games industry. Coke and Pepsi. McDonald's and Burger King. Ford and Chevy. It's possible to be a great success without being number 1. The PSP sold a tremendous amount of consoles. It sold a tremendous amount of software. It continues to sell well, six years after it launched. It makes money and it doesn't sell for a loss like other devices have. It brought some great advances to portablegaming (comic books, analog control, digital download, skype, etc.).
It's a success financially, a success technically, and a success commercially. I don't give a fuck what expectations were.
