Shovelware moves consoles. How Sony can sell more PS Vitas.

[sethnintendo]

Mr Puggsly said:

sethnintendo said:

PSP sold so well because of emulators. I'm sticking to this defense after seeing PSP's SW sales.  How else do explain a hand held that sold almost 80m in HW and doesn't even have one 10m seller?

I highly doubt PSV trumps 3DS in quality software.  Compare 3DS retail and eshop titles to PSV retail and eshop.  I believe 3DS trumps PSV.  PSV has some good games but apparently not too many people are noticing.

I'd argue no PSP game sold 10 million units because the PSP lacked killer apps capable of achieving those numbers. The only games we see achieving those numbers on handheld platforms have massive casual appeal.

Few console IPs even achieve 10 million sales. That's a dumb argument.

Few console IPs do reach 10m besides a handful of 3rd party games, a couple Microsoft and Sony games and a bunch of Nintendo games.  Someone mentioned piracy (which was rampant on PSP but also DS).  That affected some sales but DS still managed 9 (probably eventually 10 with Super Mario 64) 10 million sellers.  Wii has 9 Nintendo published games over 10 million.  PS3 only has CoD titles over 10 and Microsoft managed Halo 3, Kinect Adventures along with GTA and CoDs.  Nintendo IPs apparently have more massive appeal than Microsoft and Sony IPs.