I'm well aware the GBA was more profitable, and its successor is the best-selling Nintendo hardware ever. And at that, DS only trails the PS2 by a few million.
But it's still absolutely wild to think that the PSP even narrowly outsold the GBA at all, as we previously knew it narrowly fell short of it.
That means PSP outsold GBA, 3DS, and probably the Game Boy and Game Boy Color on their own if Nintendo would've done the smart thing and not combined their totals in sales numbers.
Also, I don't think Switch Lite on its own will touch the lifetime sales of the PSP. We don't have concrete numbers of Switch Lite to date, but I would doubt it's above 30-35 million.
And it just continues to show how much Sony screwed the pooch with Vita. Not enough first-party support (or even big third-party exclusives), expensive required memory cards, hardware gimmicks that weren't needed, etc.
Lifetime Sales Predictions
Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)
PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)
Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)
PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)
3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)
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