Last Week's PSP sales vs DS Sales in Japan

[sharp]

I've got to believe this is contributing to the fact that PSP games aren't selling. Everyone's playing older 16 bit games on their PSP instead of buying retail games.

Nope. The process is still too complicated (it's not Xbox-braindead just yet), and it's only in the last couple of weeks that emus became playable for North American 1.5 users.

Also, PSP games are selling okay in America. The NextGen news bit refers to the Japanese market, where Nintendogs plays directly into Japan's disturbing obsession with virtual pets (Tamagotchi, Aibo, et cetera). Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee sold 50,000+ copies in NA last month.

-- Z.

For emulation my GP32 is still fine

[goatdan]

The PSP still did really well, just not as well as some thought it would. The notion that throwing in an HD on the PSP will elevate it to white hot orgasmic sales status is pretty laughable. Jack of all trades machines are fine, but it won't replace my Ipod.

The PSP's launch was one of the most impressive console launches ever, if it weren't for the fact that Sony guaranteed that they would sell out of systems on the first day, and then there were still stacks of them at stores. They sold something like 500,000 in a day. That's amazing. But Sony has to cover it up because they didn't sell a million like they claimed would be so easy.

Nintendo has an enourmous fan-base in Japan.
I think every week, they sell out the PSP. Its all because Nintendo is liked more over there.

I think that you meant that every week they out sell the PSP, which actually isn't true. And to think that the Nintendo fan-base is bigger than the Sony fan-base in Japan is strange. The PS2 absolutely crushes the GameCube week in and week out, and the N64 did absolutely horribly in Japan, while almost being sorta a success in North America. If anything, Japan is one of the harder markets to win, and the DS is starting to gain a LOT more ground.

[Mitch_Naz]

Well this is just one week of sales. As an owner of both PSP and DS, it just proves that "horsepower" isnt everything and IMO - innovation is more appealing.

I love the DS and keep up the good work, just keep bringing us games like Kirby Canvas curse, meteos and ONLINE.....

[Poofta!]

screw ds/psp. the ps2 outsold the gamecube by like 800%.

[FantasiaWHT]

screw ds/psp. the ps2 outsold the gamecube by like 800%.

Only because people keep buying new units to replace the ones that crap out for no reason

jk jk, had to get that in there. Sony deserves the title of #1 that they earned.

[slownerveaction]

screw ds/psp. the ps2 outsold the gamecube by like 800%.

And the GameCube still consistently outsells the Xbox by 10:1 in Japan.