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10:40 AM on 11.02.2009 | Jim Sterling

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PSPgo sells 28,275 at Japanese launch photo

#japan #PSP #PSPgo #Sony

Sony's miserable new PlayStation Portable, the PSPgo, has launched this past Sunday in Japan, a month after North America and Europe. The sales tally sees a launch that could be accurately described as ... alright.

According to reports, the PSPgo shifted 28,275 units on day one, which could be described as a moderately encouraging number. However, the numbers are far below launch day sales for the DSi, which stood at 170,000 and even the PSP-3000, which shifted over 140,000 units.

This could be down to the fact that the system launched on Sunday, instead of Saturday as is traditional in Japan. However, such a significant gap between PSPgo sales and PSP-3000 sales would seem to indicate that the PSPgo is just as welcome in Japan as it is in the rest of the world -- not very welcome at all.

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Brandon Shoopman

I'd like to see the DS sales during the PSP Go's launch.

Steel Brotha

Yo has anyone else heard of that "hold your wee for a wii" contest? look it up. the things people do for video games.

ChaosTeaCup

Didn't somebody die from holding on too long, Steel Brotha?

A Very Drunk Panda

Does anyone else feel that the PsPGo is a move in the right direction, but at the wrong time? The big consoles have gigantic Hard-Drives that can support gigantic downloads of games/demos/DLC, but is digitizing really the right way to go for Sony? I believe (which is to be corrected, If I'm wrong) they don't support mSD or SD in their handheld, which is a big mistake in terms of a storage unit. So when, or if, Sony expands their library to something much more appealing, I can see a lot of people being turned off by the 40 dollar 2gb sony-branded memory unit when all of the storage in the PsPGo is used up.
Digitizing handheld games, at least in the light that sony is putting it in, doesn't seem to be the direction we need to go in right now.

A Very Drunk Panda

ChaosTeaCup: Yeah, some lady died in the contest, I believe the ordeal was recently settled.. for 16 million.

Fantus

I love my go.

LB Jeffries

I think at this point it's tough to justify spending more money on a handheld unit that only plays games when you could spend less cash on an I-phone that does lots of nifty other stuff. Functionality and all that.

Mr Pibb

I think the Go would have served as a really good upgrade but it has 2 major failings- It's price and the fact that there's no way for existing PSP owners to transfer over UMDs. The second point doesn't matter to me since I don't own a PSP anyway but for the price of a Go I could buy a 360, a Wii or buy a second DS and some Pokemon games so I can start trading with myself like the ultra-leet do.

linuxguy

LB Jeffries: iphone games are cell phone games, nothing more.
don't people understand that the 3000 does almost everything a go does and can still play UMD games?

Smuckers

@ linuxguy: dude if you have an iphone then you know that the games range from cellphone games to something comparable from the psp or ds for a much cheaper price (the games, not the system). plus there's tons more functionality. It seems ridiculous to expect people to pay a 250 when they could get an ipod touch for 50 bucks less than what sony wants for its handheld.

Steel Brotha

@ ChaosTeaCup & A Very Drunk Panda
yeah, u don't know why, but people will do stupid things for stupid prizes. sad thing is people called in to the radio station that was holing the event and voiced their concern. The DJ's response was "they signed waiver, so we're not responsible."

peachboy

i absolutely love the concept of the go, and they look wonderful to boot.
every ounce of my being wants to proudly purchse and flaunt one around.
unfortunately, it seems like that would be akin to ordering a cheeseburger and receiving a cracker with honey on it.

it's even trickier for me because i sold my psp a while back when there was a dry spell of quality games coming out...now there are dozens of new titles i'm interested in and i don't know if i should take a risk and try a pspgo or play it safe and get a plain old psp.

ran24

The price is utterly retarded. Ummm, $249 for a PSPgo or $299 for a PS3? It might not be those exact numbers in Japan, but you get the idea.

Mattchewie

The GO would be very viable if they teamed with 1 or more retailers for a swap-to-digital and credit program (for titles not yet available in digital format). However I agree. I have games that I still want on my PSP and their is no way I'm paying 20 bucks for them.....again.

Steel Brotha

@ ran24

The PS3 is over 3 years old, while the GO is new. The DSI in Canada costs as much as a Wii in the US.

Electrium

@ Steel Brotha - So? It's still a shit deal considering the PSP-3000 can do everything the PSP Go can do (except...slide open).

Japan LOVES Sony. If the PSP Go was going to be successful anywhere, it would've been Japan. I still don't understand what Sony was thinking...

Euthanasian

@Steel Brotha

Uhhh... You can't compare console prices in two different territories. If you're gonna talk about DSi prices in Canada, you have to talk about Wii prices in Canada too. And they aren't the same here in Canada...

MasterBalls

Lesson to Sony: only when you make a handheld that prints money can you make ridiculously useless iterations of said handheld.

Squirrel Pope

I am begining to think the PSPgo is just a very expensive ad campaign to sell more PSP-3000's

LokiTerjesen

@ Steel BrothaI The PS3 may be old, but the Go is definitely not "new". If it were, there'd be shiny new graphics to make us feel better about the price-rape. Fact remains that it's exsisting technology wrapped in a newer case. Tha's all. So I've chosen to stick with my 3000 which plays UMD's and also downloads games.
I get what people are saying when they complain about a PS3 only being 50 bucks more.

Cowboy TTop

Squirrel, you might be right. A big fat Sony Trojan horse named PSP Go. No wonder, I'm wary of Sony greeks baring gifts.

Either way, whichever one you choose, PSPs are selling again and that's what Sony wants. I too will stick with my 1000, as it works just fine.

Japanese gamers will buy anything japanese, they are just wired that way. They are also, less likely to question all the things, that we smartly question about PSP Go, PSP and their prices and options..

Xzyliac

@Cowboy TTop
Wow. So now the Japanese are mindless drones buying anything Japanese, eh?
No wonder the PSPgo flew off the shelves unlike everywhere else.

nummy6

It's already been a month? oh boy, time moves fast.

RBinator

So this article is objectively reporting on facts?

Stop the Sony anti-bias Jim, I mean it!

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