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Turkish on 21 September 2017
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Agente42 said:
Turkish said:

It should be noted that the PSP sold more than the 3DS ever will. And yeah piracy killed it (and Sony never really being committed, saving PS3 was bigger priority). For a few years PSP was very competitive against the DS, even outselling it iirc, but then came the CFW.

PSP was a revolutionary device back in 2004. A widescreen LCD, PS2 like graphics, joystick, movie/mp3 player, internet browser, the XMB. Coming from a purple non-backlit gba it was crazy.

 

Piracy was present in DS as well, no problem. And Nintendo had the Wii to take care of too. It's an excuse. Ds crushes PSP on its merits. It's not Sony's fault entirely, competition was crucial. The DS was a better gaming device than the PSP, which reflects on long-term sales. Selling double and much more software, even suffering with a piracy equal or worse than the PSP suffered.

Hardware wise PSP was better, a generation better. And when it had Western support it was selling as good and even outselling the DS. There was nothing wrong with the hardware, it just lacked the games, both from Sony and 3rd party. DS piracy wasn't nearly as big an issue as on the PSP, getting pirated games on the DS was many times harder than on PSP, not to mention it came much later. Nintendo didn't have a console like PS3 and Bluray to save so I dunno why you brought up the Wii. Nintendo had the fortune to attract millions of non-gamers (which they lost a generation later), they were comfortable. Perhaps too comfortable as they ran into trouble later. The PSP did amazing considering it outsold or sold as much as any other Nintendo handheld, even the original Gameboy, if you dissect its total sales around 40 to 50 million of it is from the GBC.

PSP was a better handheld, and it had the better games in my opinion.