Square-Enix and their detemination to take over the universe have struck again. Since the launch of the limited slim PSP bundled with Crisis Core on September 13th on Japan, 75,943 units have been sold. Add in the 250,702 units sold after the full launch of the handheld on September 20th, and numbers are looking pretty. Not bad for less than two weeks of sales.
Worldwide sales of the little black handheld are believed to be over 25 million, which is astonishing considering previous to E3 the general consensus seemed to be that the PSP was best used as a handsome paperweight. Seems like the slim might have been the push Sony needed. Now reprice those PS3's, and we might have a revolution on our hands.
[Via GamesIndustry.biz, thanks Donut!]
Update - Per the illustrious Dale North, during his recent trip to Japan for the Tokyo Game Show you couldn't blink an eye without seeing someone playing their Crisis Core PSP or staring at an advertisement for it. We're talking one CC PSP for each hand here, people.
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12:57 PM on 09.26.2007
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"You can't sell a system everyone already owns."
But back on topic,
Japan is, thankfully, not the whole world. And anything branded Final Fantasy will sell. But again remember that the new PSP Slim has been hacked as well (actually the next day of release) and allow "illegal activity" within it.
Anyways... the new slim PSPs have me interested in getting one... down the road. I even looked over the list of games that are out (or are coming in the near future) and was quite surprised at the number of games I was interested in. It was drastically higher than I was expecting. Still the short battery life is still a big turn off for me, but I guess thats what you get for the extra power/performance the system has
Now that they've been out for a little while, does anyone that has a new slim psp still think it feels cheap (umd drive, etc) and have there been any problems with those parts breaking?
someone just make an a/v out device for the reg. psp already stat!
...pls? :D
And everything BHZ said. And if they release that Crisis Core spec. ed. version here, I'll be taking the short bus ride to getting one.
That is all.
I wonder if the Dragon Quest 4 DS remake will bank as much as this. I've read that DQ has a larger fanbase in Japan than FF does.
The TGS is highly populated with PSP's because Sony is the only Japanese console maker at the show. Nintendo shuns TGS, so the DS' stay at home, and the PSP's get to come out. The timing of Crisis Core's release and the new Slim was a trifecta.
That said, I still have no interest in getting another PSP. I already had one. Gathered a lot of dust when it wasn't playing Lumines. It's sexy as hell looking, but there weren't any games that I wanted to play. Still really aren't other than maybe FFII. DS STILL has games I don't even have time for. And Zelda comes out next month too.
DS is still king with the better and more varied games. Its easy to see everything as what you say Gamesaregames. Perhaps you weren't looking in the right place for the best games, I don't know (some of the best stuff is on import).
I have both DS and PSP and enjoy the best of both. Both are worth owning. I don't see why it has to be one or the other (as both are fairly cheap now) but that's up to you all.
But I don't see my self getting one. I already have a DS and a PS3. I'd rather spend my cash on getting games instead of just buying new systems.
The PSP actually IS popular. It's just that the DS is MORE popular by a lot. I think it even has more million selling 3rd party games than the DS. That may have changed recently.
They cant even give away UMD's at the moment!