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PSP Hits 10 Million Units
Gamasutra is reporting that Sony's PSP Handheld has hit 10 Million units shipped. From the article: "Broken down into regions, Asia (including Japan) has shipped 3 million units, North America 4.47 million, and Europe and other PAL regions 2.53 million. However, Sony's use of statistics for shipped units can be a little confusing to some, since these figures do vary significantly to the amount of units thus far sold in stores. Nonetheless, citing shipment numbers for consoles is common practice within the game industry, and is carried out by all three major console manufacturers."
Sharp eyes will catch the fact that this is "shipped" sales, not PSP's sold. Sony's good at marketing, I'll give them that.
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As ever, figures for North America remain the most obscure, although recent estimates from The NPD Group put the figure at over 2 million units.
So they haven't sold 50% of what they shipped yet... meaning 10 million shipped, but less than 5 million sold.
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- The Tao of Programming
I just bought a PSP...and I see nothing interesting for it. So far, I think the PSP has become what I envisioned its worst case scenario to be - a home for console ports, at console prices. It's really sad, since its a beautifully crafted piece of hardware, just nobody takes the time to make a unique game to take advantage of both its massive storage and its portability.
;)
As for your comment about the DS maxing out, they do have three major releases next month, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, and Mario and Luigi, all of which I played at Digital Life last weekend, and all of which are pretty freakin' sweet. And there's always the fact that a DS Zelda is in the works that will be a massive paradigm shift and DS Mario which has been long awaited. Plus, if you're really dying for a purely 2d platforming-at-its-best experience, there's Super Princess Peach.
But I digress, this is about PSP, not DS
You should play Advance Wars, and the DS hasn't maxed out. Even better games like Mario Kart DS are showing up, and the games are just getting better.
Coming Soon:
Rumored but not confirmed:
Of course, none of these may be your cup of tea. But for those of us who are Card Carrying Nintendo Fanboys, there's quite a bit to look forward to.
Now give me Super Smash Bros. DS, dammit...
I already have Castlevania for the DS but here is my want list. Maybe you will like some of these too:
Trauma Center
Phoenix Wright
Lost In Blue
Zoo Tycoon
Metroid Prime Pinball - 10/24/05
Mario Kart - 11/14/2005
Animal Crossing - 12/05/2005
Mario and Luigi 2 - 11/28/2005
Sonic Rush - 11/15/2005
My Xbox Live Gamer Card
1. Was sucked into the hype vortex.
2. Under a state of hype-nosis, bought into an EB bundle deal.
3. Got 5 games for it.
4. All 5 sucked.
5. Unhappiness breaks me out of hype-nosis.
Never again will I buy into a 'bundle'... (see xbox 360 bundles for even worse deal)
I guess this is a good time to ask, are there any games out yet that will give me a reason to dust off my PSP and hunt around for the certainly now lost power adapter?
I picked up Trauma Center and Phoenix Wright a week ago.
I haven't even played Phoenix Wright yet because Trauma Center is so great! It really feels like you're performing surgery, the level of tension is really well done. You feel like you have to do everything quickly and well, and weird things keep happening to throw you off.
It's very linear, and they tell you every procedure to use, so you don't have to use any actual creativity, but it's still a lot of fun.
The game really shows what the stylus is good for, though - the game wouldn't be the same without it. It really gives me hope for the Revolution games.
I yearn for you tragically. A. T. Tappman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.
I've seen a few in action but mostly all I've seen is Loading loading and more loading.
That, and open up the UMD format with an affordable burner, so people don't have to pay $200 for a 2GB memorystick or tack-on microdrive! I know, I know--dream on, ATRAC, dream on.