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Farsala said:
PS4 doing less then PSP is pretty bad.
Making direct comparisons of the PSP to the PS4 will be imprecise due to fact the PSP launched in March, so a precise launch-aligned comparison is difficult. Also, y'know, it's a handheld, so it's not exactly a fair comparison either direction (handhelds tend to do much better in Japan, for instance; also, handhelds typically cost a lot less than a console). That being said, the PSP rarely sold over 200k units in any given month in the U.S. 14 times from 2006 onwards not including holiday months, to be precise, and most of those were after the PSP-2000 was released. The PS4 has already sold 200+k on eleven separate non-holiday months in the U.S. and it's not even two years old yet. It sold 4.7 million units in the U.S. last year, whereas in its best year the PSP only sold 3.83M. By any objective standard, the PS4 is doing much better than the PSP in the U.S. and it hasn't even received its first price cut yet.
Worse is 3DS numbers at same point in time. Since Japan and US is about done it could get 5-9m more. europe idk. But 70m seems too hard for it at this point in time.
The 3DS only looks bad because A) the DS was an ungodly monster whose success nobody could reasonably expect to replicate, and B) the GBA's sales were grossly inflated in the U.S. Had the U.S. handheld market in the late 90s and first half of the 00s grew more slowly like it did in Europe and Japan, the GBA might have only sold 60 million lifetime. I think the 3DS will end somewhere in the 70-75 million range (unless the NX ends up being Nintendo's next handheld and launches late next year, which would quickly take the wind out of the 3DS's sales; handhelds usually don't have good legs), which is still very good sales figures. Hell, the 53M or so it's sold so far is damn good for a 4-½ year old system (so far only the PS2, Wii, GBA and DS did better). In fact, the 3DS has already surpassed the GBA in Japan and will likely surpass the PSP within the next 4-5 months and could still potentially sell over 20 million each in the U.S. and Europe, with another few million from other markets.
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