The PSP has been doing very well lately, quite often outselling the DS
Lite and sometimes the Wii, in Japan. Last week was a huge week, with
the PSP outselling all the other consoles combined. It does go to show
that individual games can be huge console system sellers. The PSP
hasn't had sales that instantly skyrocketed at launch but the sales
have been strong and steady, with interest, demand and install base
increasing in its third year. It really is better to have console
sales that are strong, sustaining and growing over a longer period
than just have a jack-rabbit start in the beginning to peter out long
before the generation cycle is over. The PS3 is on this same steadily
growing path, with interest, sales and capability increasing strongly
over the initial years of the technology cycle, while weaker
competition like the xflop 3-shitty tapers off and gradually fades
away after a premature ejaculation spurt. The combination of the PS3
and the PSP is just getting stronger and stronger as time goes on.
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/PSP/Monster+Hunter+Portable+2nd+G/news.asp?c=6334
PSP outsells every other console combined
3/4/2008
Monster Hunter drives Japanese sales of Sony's handheld to mammoth
levels
Another day, another story about how the release of Monster Hunter
Portable G 2nd in Japan has caused a country-wide frenzy of
consumerism. Since its release last Thursday, the game reportedly sold
out on its first day on sale, then went on to shift over one million
copies within six days.
Today, chart data from Famitsu based on software and console sales for
last week (March 24-30th) and reprinted here shows what sort of impact
the game's release has had on console sales in Japan.
Answer: a massive one.
Last week PSP actually managed to sell more units than all of its
competitor consoles put together. The handheld sold approximately
139,000 units, compared to (rounded up or down) 57,000 DSs, 49,000
Wiis, 13,000 PS3s and 2,800 Xbox 360s.
The game itself unsurprisingly tops the Japanese multiformat chart.
But to put it in perspective, the game in second place - Pokémon
Ranger: Batonnage - only sold an eighth of the copies Monster Hunter
managed during that week.
So Sony and Capcom will be buying all the drinks at Tokyo's many bars,
although the success of Monster Hunter in Japan (the series, including
the console iterations, has managed sales in excess of six million)
just shows how tastes there and in the west vary. Despite the
popularity of the franchise's latest PSP outing in its domestic
market, Capcom still hasn't announced plans to even release it here,
where the series has far fewer fans.
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