Who's number one again? The PSP is!

by Alan Tsang { Jul 19th 2008 at 6:45PM }

Can anyone ever be sick of good news? Maybe you guys are tired of hearing how well our beloved handheld is doing in Japan. But we doubt Sony minds the good news, and neither do we. However, we do mind coming up with a new headline for the same good news every single week. Maybe you guys can give us some suggestions in comments ...

Week of June 30th-July 6th:

PSP - 56,998 (559)
Nintendo DS - 48,540 (1,085)
Wii - 41,768 (2,757)
PlayStation 3 - 12,458 (1,901)
PlayStation 2 - 10,405 (1,363)
Xbox 360 - 3,807 (969)

The PSP outsold itself from last week, selling 559 more units. Its big brother, the PlayStation 3, didn't fare so well -- sales fell by almost 2,000 units.

Tags: hardware, japan, psp

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

strike @ Jul 19th 2008 6:53PM

Title-"WE WILL ROCK YOU"

Picture-A hardcore rocker, with his guitar replaced with a psp.

You have a nice hand, by the way, Alan :D

bryansurvive @ Jul 19th 2008 7:10PM

.numero uno otra vez.

.Portable in-controllable

.size doesnt always matter

.psp=king

.OMG!!!WTF!!! how many psp can be brick?

ultra lucky cat @ Jul 19th 2008 7:26PM

Just tell the truth: "60000 new monster hunter players" I bet Sony would sell their souls for MH3 by now...

naxe @ Jul 21st 2008 2:19AM

i bet you'll sell yours for sum dunkin donuts

cafecito @ Jul 19th 2008 9:13PM

Monster Hunter... bleargh...

demasque @ Jul 20th 2008 7:11AM

Ichiban! Isn't that Japanese for Number 1? Someone more savvy in things Nippon help me out. It's also fun to yell at the top of your lungs.

I thinks it's interesting that the PS2 still sells nearly as well as the PS3. Maybe the 3's slow sales wasn't about the price as much as the PS2 just wasn't over yet?

daniel-kun @ Jul 20th 2008 8:06AM

Headline: "The PSP sucks!"
Fist word in the article, in big fat letters: "Nooot"
:-)

ward09 @ Jul 20th 2008 6:40PM

How come you never show how the PSP is doing in North America, Europe or anywhere other than Japan? I mean, we all know the PSP isn't doing great at all in the other parts of the world, but this is PSP Fanboy, so maybe others would be interested in the overall performance of the system. After all, you do show global software releases.

Alien @ Jul 21st 2008 12:18PM

ward09 : maybe because there are no weekly data release outside of Japan ?

lazyme @ Jul 21st 2008 1:15PM

Sony and different game companies always complain about the prospect of the PSP and how home-brew has hurt their sales. I don't see they complain in Japan! They are all blaming their poor design games on unclaimable facts. Japan has awsome selection in the PSN store, awesome selection of serious and not so serious games. Us? Nothing!