gergroy on 15 September 2012
| Jumpin said: The PSP sales declined here because it was mostly used as a media device. Them the iPhone came out and was a much more attractive media device and the demand for PSP dropped off the cliff. When the 3DS gets an actual Pokemon game and other RPGs, then it will start to see longevity until Nintendo announces another handheld. |
having worked at retail, I can honestly say that the number of people using the psp as a media device was just a tiny fraction. The iphone release actually had almost no impact on the psp's sale figures. PSP sales figures were pretty similiar durring it's first three years of existence. The release of the DS lite a year after put a little dent into the psp, but the big decline is psp sales in the west happened around the same time the DSi came out.
