Japan sells 5,000,000 PSPs!

It still trails behind the DS, but don’t say that the PSP’s dead. IGN notes a Nikkei Keizan Shimbun report that says that PSP has sold over five million units in Japan!

According to the newspaper, PSP sales hit that mark in February, and it shows signs of steady growth. In fact, there’s additional software development going on, and if you’ve noticed some of the things we’ve mentioned on the site, it’s still poised to keep on growing. Sure, we can’t figure out if that PSP2 is actually shipping out or not, but it’s good news like this that makes a PSP fan happy at the end of the day.

One last tidbit, by the way. At the end of the article, Sony got quoted, saying that the system’s adoption rate is “the same as that of the original PlayStation, which shipped one hundred million units.” Does that mean they expect it to sell as much as the PS1 eventually? Well, first things first, let’s aim for ten million Japanese gamers served.

It still trails behind the DS, but don’t say that the PSP’s dead. IGN notes a Nikkei Keizan Shimbun report that says that PSP has sold over five million units in Japan!

According to the newspaper, PSP sales hit that mark in February, and it shows signs of steady growth. In fact, there’s additional software development going on, and if you’ve noticed some of the things we’ve mentioned on the site, it’s still poised to keep on growing. Sure, we can’t figure out if that PSP2 is actually shipping out or not, but it’s good news like this that makes a PSP fan happy at the end of the day.

One last tidbit, by the way. At the end of the article, Sony got quoted, saying that the system’s adoption rate is “the same as that of the original PlayStation, which shipped one hundred million units.” Does that mean they expect it to sell as much as the PS1 eventually? Well, first things first, let’s aim for ten million Japanese gamers served.