PSP maintains easy dominance in Japan

Posted May 16th 2008 7:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News

Japan sure does love their PSP. Week after week, PSP has been the top-selling console in Japan, and this week is no different. In fact, it more than easily bests the rest of the competition. It's strange to see how different the American and Japanese markets are. To think: PSP is outselling the Wii? Insanity!

PSP - 89,884
Wii - 67,308
DS - 51,228
PS3- 8,054
PS2 - 7,464
Xbox 360 - 1,298

Tags: japan, psp, sales

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

5-16-2008 @ 8:55PM

bryansurvive said...

I kinda wish we didn't have to hear about how great Japan is doing every other day.
We should stop the news bout how lame our psp's are. Lets keep it positive find some better news to post.

:)

5-17-2008 @ 12:16AM

PSPxD said...

This is easy win for the PSP since there are tons, and tons of games coming out there that doesn't make it here. It's such a shame, I should just take Japanese classes, but that'll take at least 3 years =/.

5-17-2008 @ 5:08AM

Alien said...

Great ... and the good news is that Dissidia , BBS and GTM will only help the PSP rise again when they will be released :D

5-17-2008 @ 6:47AM

goddogbad said...

yeah, I live in Tokyo, and the psp is everywhere, several reasons I guess, long times on trains for everyone. And the the lack of stigma that means people of any age can use one.

5-17-2008 @ 7:08AM

Lord Bowser said...

I wish we could get some of those Japanese PSP games over here.

5-17-2008 @ 11:47AM

sazman said...

you know what is scarier? the sales of the rather obsolete PS2 outranks the newer generation Xbox 360. i mean, the madness!

5-17-2008 @ 1:11PM

FrankTheCrank said...

This is great news.

I hope Japanese developers keep the west(U.S) in mind when making these games.

We could be seeing the start of a bunch of decent Japanese style games coming this way.

5-17-2008 @ 1:30PM

Duff_B said...

It would be great if even some of these Japanese games found their way across to the UK and US... More (and better) games can only help software and hardware sales over here too.

5-18-2008 @ 6:31PM

cotaku said...

The only reason is Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G. Everyone is playing it. Everywhere.... It's already sold more than 2 million copies just in Japan!

5-19-2008 @ 3:22AM

wocyob said...

how many weeks has it been so far andrew yoon?

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