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.'"

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It'll be worth it...

[Xlipse]

Frankly.. the PSP is great for Sony and not so great for the comsumers - considering all the extra money you have to spend beyond the initial purchase price.

Call me a GBA fanboy, but I've spent a total of $30, MAYBE $40 TOTAL on "EXTRA" things for my GBA besides what comes with the unit and games. Sony seems to want to milk us for everything we're worth :(.

I'd consider it a LITTLE better value when the unit drops down to $150 and comes with a decent game. Probably won't happen until after XMas 2005 though.

Well, let's see.

[schild]

1. It was the end of March - not the christmas season ANYWHERE.
2. It was $250.
3. It had very little advertising compared to the Touching is Good campaign last October and November.
4. It had triple the number of games Nintendo had out after 4 months at launch.
5. Despite getting some of the lowest ratings, the top-selling game was a decent Diablo clone.
6. Stores are still able to stock it and people still want it.

There's no doubt in my mind that Sony can sell any PSPs they ship. It may take a while. But they'll sell. As more and more online-enabled games come out and more killer apps start to appear (GTA and Infected anyone? Maybe even Advent Rising if you buy into the hype.) they're just going to sell better. All things considered, they came into a market dominated by Nintendo and are outselling the Nintendo DS by I'd say a margin very close to 2:1. That, by any measurement, is monstrous success.

Re:Well, let's see.

[satoshi1]

2:1? My ass. Show me numbers that display show that the PSP is outselling the DS by 2:1.

Re:Well, let's see.

[MilenCent]

Your list of reasons seem to give both reasons for it selling well, and for it *not* selling well. Weird, that.

All things considered, they came into a market dominated by Nintendo and are outselling the Nintendo DS by I'd say a margin very close to 2:1. That, by any measurement, is monstrous success.

Except it's a new release, and the DS sold much better during the same period of its release. So the PSP is not a monstrous success "by any measurement."

While it's difficult to argue against the potential selling power of GTA on the PSP, remember that the PSP is less powerful than the PS2, and Rockstar's first true-3D GTA was for that system. It's almost as much up in the air as how well that will work as it is how Katamari Damacy will work on the DS. (I've got my fingers crossed on that one....) And Nintendo *does* have some interesting DS software in the works, like Nintendogs, Meteos, a new 2D Super Mario Bros., Advance Wars, and other things.

Anyway, none of this means that the PSP won't win out in the long run... but neither does it mean the DS won't. It'll be more competitive than the PS2/Gamecube fight.

Re:Well, let's see.

[SetupWeasel]

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.

Typo in headline?

[macdaddy357]

The PSP did not sell out in its debut. It was not even close. Shouldn't that headline read first WEAK PSP sales results?

Maybe the title should have read

[Kamalot]

First Weak PSP Sales Results