Japanese charts: PSP outsells every other system combined

Posted Apr 2nd 2008 7:25PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News

To say that PSP had a good week in Japan would be an understatement. Yes, while it rarely beats Nintendo's best-selling two screened handheld, this week was one for the records: not only did PSP outsell DS, it sold every other console on the market combined. Sales were obviously spirited away by the release of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, which can be seen in the hands on busy PSP owners in the Tokyo metro.

PSP : about 139k
DSL : about 57k
Wii : about 49k
PS3 : about 13k
PS2 : about 9.8k
360 : about 2.8k

[Via Digg]

Tags: japan, psp, sales

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-02-2008 @ 8:04PM

gabe said...

thats a damn lot of psp's

4-02-2008 @ 8:18PM

MBO said...

mwahahaha... hopefully the ps3 will also sell better.

4-02-2008 @ 8:45PM

Thoas said...

LMFAOO the Xbox 360 sold less than the ps2

4-02-2008 @ 9:28PM

Jacksons said...

That's nothing new.

4-03-2008 @ 8:40AM

Nate said...

Umm.. the 360 is always in last place in Japan. Has been.... pretty much since the beginning of time. I think the Japanese have something against shoddy American electronics.

4-02-2008 @ 9:23PM

Darkshowdo said...

Yep, Seems Right The MH:2G Is A huge thing there.

4-02-2008 @ 10:01PM

FatalChaos said...

I've said it once I'll say it again, PSP the little handheld that could.

4-03-2008 @ 4:47AM

Hashbrown_Hunter said...

It's seriously turning out that way.

4-03-2008 @ 4:47AM

Hashbrown_Hunter said...

It's seriously turning out that way.

4-02-2008 @ 10:16PM

Kane said...

this series is a monster (Pun intended) in Japan.

4-03-2008 @ 4:30AM

Alien said...

It was expected :D A couple more major games like this and PSP could become even bigger ...

4-03-2008 @ 5:24AM

David Jones said...

PSP seems to be the handheld to have at present, i havent seen the sales on my site match these though. www.consolesmarket.co.uk

4-03-2008 @ 7:21AM

Dr Haisook said...

It would be terrible if the Japanese buy all of those PSPs to run pirated games which are also getting LOTS of downloads. Can anyone confirm this?

4-04-2008 @ 6:17PM

Mills and Boom said...

I wonder why the attach rate is so low? Ah - piracy :(

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