April turned out to be a great month for Sony and that’s good news for all the PSP fans. The hardware sales in Japan have been steadily growing and that makes PSP settle at the very top of the “must-buy” list and shows no signs of abating.
Another piece of related news that might elate the PSP community is the fact that the PSP has sold twice as much as Nintendo’s Wii units.
Pocket gamer had a round-up of the statistics from various sources:
” In the same month Mario Kart Wii hit shop shelves and instantly topped the software charts, PSP was still outselling the console by 2:1. In total, the handheld sold a massive 380,697 units during April, while Wii sold 187,121 and DS 169,911”
And further:
” However it’s achieved the sales figures though, the result is a console with a fast-increasing user base that publishers - especially in Japan - can hardly overlook. Whether PSP can achieve the same levels of success in the west over the coming months remains to be seen, but outselling Nintendo in the month a new Mario Kart game is released is certainly a promising start “
A few great games available to be played on the PSP and the fact that it had long since garnered a huge community of game lovers has made the PSP a hot favorite with many fans. The fact that the PSP also proves to be highly versatile and has the ability to do much more than mere gaming, including a horde of services, can make the PSP truly an indisputable leader among all the gaming devices currently available!
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The PSP is only outselling the DS in Japan because the former has met saturation point. There are 30 MILLION DS in japanese homes and 6 mill PSP’s.
The PSP’s hardware sales might be good now, but the software attatchment ratio’s for japan are 2:1 - The DS is 20:1
And don’t get me started on the PS3 selling under 10,000 units last week. Nintendo owns Japan.
Thats very true if your numbers were correct. The DS has sold roughly 22.7million units and the PSP has sold 9.5 million units in japan.
Your software attatchment rate could mean 2 things. 1. The DS games are so good that everyone with a DS is buying them and the PSP has no good games. or 2. Everyone with a DS goes through the games within hours because there not that good and they’re cheap to buy and PSP owners buy a game that is so good it lasts them for months on end and then they trade it in for another game as they’re more expensive. Either way your numbers are made up anyway.
I have a mate who has a 0:1 attach rate for his 360, that’s bacause he doesn’t buy game but rent them.