PSP breaches 10 million sales in Japan; Monster Hunter dominates all-time chart |
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It's been over three and a half years now since the PSP has been released in Japan. And just last month, Sony announced that they've shipped some 10 million units of PSP to Japan retail. Now coming from Famitsu, actual sales totalled from the period of December 12, 2004 to August 24, 2008 have been tallied.
As of last counting, they've gotten 10,005,546 PSP units sold, to be exact. That's a lot of PSPs!
The numbers are consistent - Media Create reports that the PSP sells anywhere between 40 to 60 thousand units per week in Japan, and with the PSP-3000 announced, there's little doubt that PSP sales would end there either.
As for software, Capcom's dominating the PSP lifetime charts with their Monster Hunter Portable series, with Crisis Core sitting on third place, thus preventing the trilogy from getting a Top 3 sweep.
Meanwhile, Phantasy Star Portable, being the game with the shortest lifetime out of the top five, managed to just sneak into the all-time list - that's definitely saying something, compared to all the other games that have been released out there since the PSP's launch. Check it out:
- Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) - 2,396,642 units since March 27, 2008
- Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom) - 1,706,387 units since Feb 22, 2007
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Sqaure Enix) - 790,795 units since Sept 13, 2007
- Monster Hunter Portable (Capcom) - 668,964 units since Dec 1, 2005
- Phantasy Star Portable (Sega) - 545,242 units since July 31, 2008
Related articles:
- Media Create coverage on QJ.NET
- NPD, Chart Track, Enterbrain combined global report
- Sony: PSP ships 10 million units in Japan
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Comments [refresh]
Psp number one.
One is "Sqaure-Enix."
The second is to all the fanboys who said the PSP was only selling because people knew that Crisis Core was coming out. 800,000 in Japan in comparison to a game released just last month(Phantasy Star Portable,) with 550,000 sales.
Not only that, but Crisis Core has 1/10 the amount of sales as the PSP does, and that's just in Japan. But yeah. Everyone really bought the PSP just for Crisis Core.
-andrew- -kupomogli-
No one has figured out what the sales are in the US market, I wish someone would do it. I'm curious on how poor it's doing compared to the Japanese market. It would certainly explain why we don't get as many games.
Does the US market not get any cool games because sales are lagging, or are sales in the US lagging because we don't get any games? It may be a catch 22.
Well, there do seem to be some good games on the horizon (FIFA, NBA, KoF:O, Star Ocean, Yggdra, Brave, Star Wars:TFU).
Japan really loves their giant monsters...I gotta admit Monster Hunter is one of the best games for the psp...look at those people who got suckered to buy MH2 and then buy MH2ndG...Capcom is a genius...I want Phantasy Star to be ported...probably will since its sega, then again i could be wrong
Nice big numbers, but compared to the DS it's just a drop in the ocean.
Playing through MHF1 now and I can see why the series gets so celebrated. Can't wait to play the 3rd one on the Wii!
yeah, compared to 130 Million units sold on the DS side, this is nothing, but it's the same with PS3 and Wii, you really can't compare these two things. Wii and DS are purely gaming devices, whereas PS3 and PSP are multimedia devices.
I bought mine for homebrew emulators, pictures, videos and music and compilation games.