Is the PSP considered successful for Sony?

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eab said:
It was a terrible failure. I look at the larger picture.

2002: Sony dominated console gaming, Nintendo was getting annihilated in sales and was loosing ground everywhere. All Nintendo really had left was handhelds, the same market they had held for the past 20 years. Sony, not comfortable with simply taking over all of Nintendo's former console market got greedy and wanted more. They wanted that hand held market and really intended to decimate Nintendo's last stand.

2003: Sony announces the PSP with the backing of dozens of studios and millions of R&D poured in. Internet forums everywhere sing of Nintendo's imminent doom. Nintendo gets worried, realizes it can't win in a head to head fight of graphics. Nintendo, now backed into a corner and faced with the real danger of loosing their last market, they turn to their engineers are innovate.
The DS idea is created, Nintendo hopes for the best.

2005 It is clear now that the DS is favored over the PSP, Nintendo realizes the Blue Ocean strategy and applies it to consoles. Wii idea created. Wii destroys PS3 sales just as the DS destroyed PSP sales.

Summary: If Sony never got greedy and tried to overpower Nintendo's last stand, Nintendo probably would have never been forced to innovate as much with the DS. Even if Nintendo had made the DS without Sony's pressure, they would never have known how well it could do against an overpowered rival system. Without that knowledge, the concept of the weaker Wii beating the PS3 would not have been thought up really.
Sony's decision to make a PSP didn't take out Nintendo's last stand like they hoped, it instead indirectly killed the PS3. I say the PSP was a terrible failure.

 

I don't agree with you at all,

and I frankly don't even believe you believe all that say yourself,
cause calling the PSP a terrible failure
is just plain not true, selling 32 mill, and going fast to the 40 mill.
so however you wan't to look at it, it just can't be considered a terrible failure..


you want me to list some real terrible handheld failures that tried to take it up against Nintendo?