PSP Slim Debuts To Big Sales in Japan

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 1, 2007 @05:54AM from the good-kid-nice-to-see-he's-doing-well dept.

The PSP Slim debuted in Japan on the 20th to some 250,000 unit sales. The unit also got a significant bump with the release of Final Fantasy: Crisis Core pack. Gamespot reports: "The PSP Slim has now sold a total of 326,645 units in Japan, as of September 23, 75,943 of which coming from the Crisis Core bundle. The handheld was first unveiled during this year's E3 Media and Business Summit. According to SCEA president Kaz Hirai, the new device is 33 percent lighter and 19 percent slimmer, and it also packs a more efficient battery, is faster at loading games, and features video-out capabilities. According to Enterbrain's tally, the combined total of the PSP's new and old model currently sits at 6,217,664 units since the original first went on sale for the island nation in December 2004. "

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Misnomer by Tetsujin · 2007-10-01 05:57 · Score: 0, Troll

It's not really "slim" - it should be "PSP slightly less chunky". :)

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No way! Seriously?! by Seumas · 2007-10-01 06:24 · Score: 0, Troll

A Sony videogame system selling in big numbers in Japan?! I don't believe it! No way!
Re:Fat PSP vs. Fairly-chunky PSP by Stormwatch · 2007-10-01 08:13 · Score: 0, Troll

They did fix the square button, I hear.
Until they rename the buttons to A, B, X, and Y -- I'll still regard them as broken.

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