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First Week PSP Sales Results
Gamespot has results from the first week of PSP sales. Unit sales have already cracked 600,000, generating in the neighborhood of $US 150 million for Sony. From the article: "Sony would only say that the device sold 'over half a million units' during its first 48 hours on the market, meaning it sold only approximately 100,000 units continent-wide over the next five days--at best. Still, Sony said the tally was enough to 'further validate PSP as the most anticipated product of 2005 and an industry-altering force.'"
2:1? My ass. Show me numbers that display show that the PSP is outselling the DS by 2:1.
Halo 2 was released in 2004.
This is 2005 and we're only in April. Its' marketing BS and you fell for it.
That's because that's how many there were. Nintendo didn't have 1 mil the first week. They needed some of their produtction for the Japanese launch.
Even though you are comparing apples and oranges here 600,000:513,000 is not 2:1.
The PSP has a built in flash memory slot which can be used for many things, among them storage of movie and music files for PSP's built in mp3 and video player..
There's already a program which can convert your standard 700MB 1 CD MPEG 4 (dvix/xvid/what have you) full DVD ripped movie to the PSP compliant standard, given that you can get your hands on a compatible 1GB memory stick.
That alone is enough to convince me, but it's not like it stops there... there have already been several slashdot stories covering recent hacks, and one gets the impression that they've only just begun to unlock what the PSP is capable of.