Why Sales Statistics?

I've been asked this a few times, and thought I might point it out. Hardware statistics, are one aspect of the PSP that annoys a Sony fanboy the most. I regularly post these statistics to provide gamers the truth, what is really happening in the console market.

Statistics are solid information, different to marketing and console hype. They represent each console's popularity and the interests of the gaming community. Sony loyalists can boast all they want about the PSP's superior hardware, or multimedia capabilities, but one look at some hardware statistics shows Sony's portable in last place, whether it's Japan, Australia or the States.

Sony reserves a large amount of their profits into marketing their consoles and games. With the help of the media and retailers, they convince people into thinking their consoles are more popular than they really are, especially with the PSP. Take a trip to EB Games, or Games Wizards, and you'll see what I mean. Huge flashy ads hang outside the stores, boxes are stacked high, and wall-fulls of shelves are taken up by PSP games and accessaries. If you're in there looking for a particular DS game, you would probably find about a dozen or so DS game boxes, piled in a corner you wouldn't normally notice.

Alright, maybe that was a little exaggerated, but there certainly is an obvious difference. Same deal with the GBA, despite being the topselling console of the world, has little more room than the UMD movies on PSP. The uneducated gaming community are tricked into thinking the PSP as the dominant handheld.