Hahaha, so you call PSP being behind GBA by 700k a tie, which you then count as a win? And then you consider Switch not having passed 80M in its first 8 months as a win for PSP as well?

PSP was successful due to factors like piracy though the biggest killer app for PSP wasn't any game it was home brew which is why software sales in the west were dreadful as people would rip games put them on memsticks and sell them on ebay with the homebrew software, PS1 games like FF7 were running on PSP years before any official announcement and release. In the end it wasn't competing on its own merits but an exploit people were using this is a big reason Vita fell off so hard because Vita ended up having the same problems competing only this time the was no homebrew scene to save it

why not?

Quite funny your argument. Basically you are favoring my point, considering all the million sellers of DS and 3Ds the sales is quite concentrated.

I love how when anything Sony does is sucessfull it isn't never Sony merit. We are done talking.

Wii beat most PlayStation consoles. It beat PS3, it tied with PS1 (which is basically a win,) and PS4 isn't even close to 101 million yet.

Fair enough.  PSP and GBA were close.  GBA at 81.51 million (3 years before successor launched) and PSP at ~80 million (6 years before successor launched).  Sony hasn't given a final official number that I know of.  The Gameboy and DS were obviously higher and the 3DS is probably not going to sell the ~10 million needed to hit 80 million.  I suspect 2-3 million short.

Except no one said anything about non PSP success you're just in a defensive mind set so you think Sony is being attacked when truth is PSP's success wasn't anything of their own merit hence why the Vita crashed and burned.

So far it's true =]

And I put that just to counter the "moderate" success. If it sold so good compared to the big success of Nintendo, then the platform itself was sucessfull, but so far there is no question about Nintendo never really being challenged on their 1st position. But to deny Sony sucess on PSP isn't good as well.

Yeah yeah sure, we can always find excuses to make the failures be the faulty of others and the merits our own and vice-versa.

In your defence, I think it is unfair not to give credit when credit is due. Sony's PSP was a success and it was entirely to Sony's merit.

Whatever users intended to do with their PSP, over 80 million units were sold of it.

With an outlook of 14M, it practically guaranteed that that they will have enough stock for at least 6M for the last quarter, otherwise they can't achieve that number anymore unless they sell like 4M in spring.