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teigaga on 11 February 2015
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Cobretti2 said:
naruball said:

Don't you think that the bolded is a bit of an exaggeration? One of the main reasons? Sure. The only? I beg to differ.


nope the only reason it reached 80million because it being the first real portable multimedia device.

If it was just a gaming device it would probably account for 40-50million.

The multimedia functionality on a protable was th emost talked about hype of the device for its time. Hence why it launched better tha DS (well in AUS at least). Everyone was putting their  video, music and roms on it. was  great times.

WOAH

The PSP being the superior gaming machine with almost PS2 level graphics, running GTA3 at launch during a time where people were actually excited by consoles experiences on the go, having tons of support out the gate and being sonys first portable console were the reason it launched better then the DS. Remember people thought it was given the PSP would wipe the floor with the DS. TBH it would have had nintendo not found their feet with casual market (brain training, nintendo dogs etc).

Multimedia definitely helped PSP for sure but we are undoubtably exaggerating the relevance of multi-media functionality suggesting it doubled sales. UMD films failed horribly, MP3s were already all the rage on much more practical devices....