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PSP Stretches Japanese Hardware Lead

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By Tom Ivan

July 25, 2008

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Weekly Japanese PSP sales, likely boosted by the release of the new Metallic Blue Value pack and a Metallic Blue 1 Seg model, jumped by 17,000 units to 74,024 units during the week ended July 20, according to the latest data from Media Create.

Nintendo DS sales rose by 6,000 units to 54,531 units, while Wii, PS3 and PS2 sales all saw marginal declines on the previous week’s totals. Xbox 360 sales gained 400 units to 4,208 units.

PSP - 74,024
Nintendo DS - 54,531
Wii - 40,803
PlayStation 3 - 11,253
PlayStation 2 - 9,535
Xbox 360 - 4,208

PantherLotus's picture
On July 27th PantherLotus said:

Tom: do you write your own headlines? I am wondering which lead you were referring to. I suspect you meant "current streak of selling slightly more than other hardware in Japan this year." Perhaps that wouldn't be as succinct?

Either way:

PSP has gained 3.4% market share in Japan this year, which sounds ok until you acknowledge that they had 26.88% market share before hand (and the DS has gone from 73.2% to 69.80% in the same time period). So the PSP didn't exactly stretch its lead there.

You can see exactly what the PSP has done this year here:
http://lotuscharts.blogspot.com/2008/07/media-create-sales-714-720-handh...

Not exactly stretching its lead, but impressive nonetheless and is currently enjoying its best year ever. The real question is, "what changed?" Can this all just be related to Monster Hunter?

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On July 25th jazzbrownie said:

It would be nice to see this recent surge in PSP sales generate some decent software. The PSP library is seriously lacking, with the majority of solid games being remakes of old classics or spin-offs of established Sony ip.