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PSP Hits 10 Million Units

Posted by Zonk on from the great-screen-poor-games dept.

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."

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  1. YAWN by OSS_ilation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. Shipped vs. sold by Phisbut · · Score: 4, Insightful
    According to recent statements from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, the PSP has sold "over a million units throughout the PAL territories"

    and

    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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  3. Re:Gaming Library by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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 ;)