According to Famitsu the handheld hit the sales milestone on August 24, a little over three-and-a-half years after it debuted in the country, reports Kotaku.
Last month Sony Computer Entertainment announced that it had sold-in ten million PSPs to Japanese retail as of July 15, 2008. At the time Famitsu publisher Enterbrain said that the PSP was the bestselling system during the first half of 2008, shifting just under two million units.
Famitsu says that Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise leads the all-time PSP software sales chart, taking three of the top five places.
01. Monster Hunter 2nd G (Capcom) 2,396,642
02. Monster Hunter 2nd (Capcom) 1,706,387
03. Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix) 790,705
04. Monster Hunter Portable (Capcom) 668,964
05. Phantasy Star Portable (Sega) 545,242