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Wyrdness on 03 November 2017
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DonFerrari said:
Wyrdness said:

3DS has sold less than the PSP at 66m compared to 80m at the end of next year it'll be higher as it approaches the PSP's 80m and DS isn't impressive either but then that was the blue ocean when they were catering to casuals as well as it being the highest selling platform in history which is an anomaly much like the PS2.

So we have excuses for all situations right?

HH sell less SW, simple as that. And PSP were a first time, hadn't the stablished IPs from Nintendo so a 1 or 2 games less sold isn't unexpected. So if 3DS and DS sold less than 5 and less than 6, PSP selling a little less than 4 isn't entirely due to Piracy.

PSP was sucessfull and a PS5 portable could be as well, depending on how the platform holder makes the strategy.

NES and GB were first times for Nintendo your point? PSP had Playstation in the name which is a well known gaming brand with some first party titles from Sony finding their way onto the platform.

To further this 3DS has more million sellers (despite at the moment having 15m units less) than PSP when digital is taken into account the latter stands at 57 or so, DS has 139 million sellers even with the piracy, the ratio just doesn't favour PSP in any scenario. PSP having 4 has a lot to do with piracy and emulation why do you think third parties avoided it like the plague later on despite being okay with the DS a common complaint was the terrible SW sales the platform would return. Under your argument more games in the west should have come out for it if it did fine.

Atari was successful in the 80s maybe a new platform from them can be as well right? No PSP did well due to factors that weren't really its own merit hence Vita's destruction, Sony have shown they can't support two platforms at once the only way to have a PS5 portable is by having a hybrid and then they'll essentially be forced to fight Nintendo on an even playing field where the latter has the upper hand. In fact Nintendo would be delighted with that because then it would mean the would be far less of a gap between the hardware and PS5 games would make it to their platform as well while they maintain the likes of Pokemon and AC. MS would also love that as they could continue as the sole traditional console, it's nowhere near as simple as you're trying to paint it.