Turkish said:
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. |
Bolded 1: Okay, what the hell are you talking about? PSP was never outselling DS. The closest it got was right after launch in 2005 when it sold 9.61 million versus the DS selling 10.99 million. But then the next year the DS started crushing it with 20.78 million versus the PSP at 9.49 million. PSP was never outselling DS. It was almost selling as well as DS at the very beginning of their lives, but that lasted less than a year.
Bolded 2: Yeah, and I guess DS Lite is the best selling video game console ever, once you dissect the 70 million PS2 Slims. Actually, that probably means that Wii sold more than PS2 as well, since the original Wii model sold around 90 million on its own before Wii mini came out.
