What happened to "portable games for portable a console"

[Arminillo]

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.

The only people I know/knew personally that had an original PSP used it for piracy. I have never known anyone who bought an NDS without using it as intended initially.