There are possibly tracking issues, but even that would only be a small effect overall. I'd be amazed if we doubled the systems numbers, really. In fact, I'd be a bit shocked if there was a 50% increase from untracked games.
The PSP is not doing poorly in software, though. Handhelds have historically had worse attach rates than consoles, and though I don't have the information anymore I did see a tie-ratio for GBA that made it look like PSP wasn't so bad off and the DS was just a monster among handhelds. Oh, look at the sales numbers!
Yeah, the DS is a monster, that doesn't mean PSP is a failure. Using any other standard shows the PSP as being pretty well off. It's still selling pretty well, at a profit, and software keeps being made and sold, even if both are at smaller numbers than the competition. It's biggest failure is that cheap ports like the latest Madden cost $40. That simply isn't acceptable, and it's that $40 point for games that is really killing them.
That said, all they need to do is release software people want at a price that is fair. Once they can do that, the software sales will catch back up to the THRIVING system sales.
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