PSP maintains easy dominance in Japan

by Andrew Yoon { May 16th 2008 at 7:00PM }

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

bryansurvive @ May 16th 2008 8:55PM

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.

:)

goddogbad @ May 17th 2008 6:47AM

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.

PSPxD @ May 17th 2008 12:16AM

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 =/.

Alien @ May 17th 2008 5:08AM

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

Lord Bowser @ May 17th 2008 7:08AM

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

sazman @ May 17th 2008 11:47AM

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

FrankTheCrank @ May 17th 2008 1:11PM

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.

Duff_B @ May 17th 2008 1:30PM

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.