PSP Hits New Heights In Japan
Score one for Sony!
Well, okay, it still has a long way to go to come close to Nintendo's supernaturally popular DS, but Sony's PSP has impressed everyone with the sales figures of the new slimmer and cheaper version that went on sale recently. Sony has revealed that it sold 550,000 units of the new PSP during the month of September, beating all other monthly sale records. (Including the month that the original PSP went on sale in 2004!)
I don't know what's driving the sales, though. Is it the games? The tuner that lets you watch TV (though only in Japan, sadly)? The fact that it comes in fashionable colors you can coordinate with your outfit? Or is it that it's thinner? That's it, isn't it? It's like the DS. Give people a slimmer, sexier version, and they just jump on it. To hell with the handheld with a little heft to it, right? You all make me sick!
Sony PSP Japan sales hit record high [Reuters]
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Posted to Video Games on 4 October 2007
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I think the combination of the thinner console (you know the Japanese fetish for small electronics) coupled with the large amount of RPGs on the console and the recent release of Crisis Core has managed to turn some heads.
It's Crisis Core, for sure.