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theprof00 on 16 February 2012
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happydolphin said:
maverick40 said:

It ended quite well for the psp actually. It stole an incredible amount of market share from Nintendo, who previously had a monopoly on the handheld market.

You're forgetting that the attach ratio for the PSP was really low for a core handheld:

17 PlayStation Portable (PSP) 4.90 2.99 3.51 3.33 3.73

Odds are, the PSP wasn't all that used for gaming, but many used it for music, movies, and loading up emulators via homebrew.

The DS had numbers not as high as the Wii or HD twins, but it was a handheld that sold almost 2.5 times the number of PSPs, and many of those sold to casual users.

14 Nintendo DS (DS) 6.26 3.41 5.30 5.58 5.03

 

What I'm trying to say is, PSP hardware did well, but SW, apart from GTA, FF:CC and MH, didn't do so so crazy.

You're forgetting that's not his point. PSP took Nintendo Marketshare. Most successful non-nintendo handheld ever.

Sure let's applause nintendo again for being so successful, but let's stay on topic too.