Quote Originally Posted by NeoCracker
Honestly if it wasn't for the fact that it would basically leave the handheld market in a monopoly for Nintendo, I'd say Sony should just drop the PSP all together and focus more on what they do better, console gaming and other such products of theirs.
Regardless of anyone's opinions on the quality of the PSP library (I've personally enjoyed far more PSP games than I have even the best that the DS has to offer), let's not lose sight of the fact that it's still the only handheld to ever give Nintendo any serious competition. In fact, it's sold over 60 million. Granted, it's less than half of the sales of the DS, but to put it in perspective, it's about 20 million shy of the GBA sales, and the next closest competitor to Nintendo was the Game Gear with around 11 million.

I was going to make an analogy by comparing the idea that Sony should drop out of the handheld market based on sales to thinking Microsoft should have dropped out of the console market after the relative failure that was the Xbox, but that wouldn't even be a fair comparison considering the Xbox wasn't nearly as successful relative to it's top competitor as the PSP has been (24 million units sold compared to the PS2's 146 million). Again, the PSP did something pretty astounding by managing to hold it's own against Nintendo's 21+ years of handheld dominance. And hell, if a home console had sold as much as the PSP in the same time period it would be a rousing success compared to the 360 and PS3, and even the Wii to be frank.

Personally I look forward to seeing what they manage with a second kick at the can.