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PSP sales skyrocket in Japan

Posted on September 21st, 2007 at 11:55 EDT

Weekly PlayStation Portable sales in Japan have now surpassed those of the Nintendo DS, with Sony’s handheld nearly topping the 100,000 sales mark for the week ended September 16.

PSP sales rose by around 80,000 from that of the previous week, selling a total of 95,487 units. In contrast, Nintendo DS sold 79,974 units, with the Wii coming a distant third with 26,181 consoles sold.

The sales boost is largely attributed to the release of the highly anticipated Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, which sold almost 500,000 copies in its first week on sale, topping the charts in the process.

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posted 11:59am EDT - September 21st, 2007
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yeah.. nice... imma get me the new psp soon... yeah!...

PSN ID ZeRoAciDKooL

posted 12:02pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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wow...psp finally gaining momentum. Keep it up!!

posted 12:05pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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The Playstation brand is finally gaing momentum again,AWESOME!!!!!!

posted 12:15pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
4

beautiful i hope these sales keep up.

posted 12:20pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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Kinda funny that it took a FF7 game to do it. Still shows you how much people dig that storyline.

posted 12:28pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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they just need to announce the FFVII remake and the PS3 sales will skyrocket too! (i hope so)

posted 12:33pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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Another damn good reason why they should make a Final Fantasy VII remake for PS3.

posted 12:36pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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psn id: gingo... FF:CC  is really making a difference, long may this continue for psp and hopefully moves over to ps3

posted 1:00pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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That's awesome! I don't even know what part of the story FFCC is about. Hopefully this will keep up though. Now after everyone has their hands on the PSP maybe they'll see how great it is. Then they'll want the big one (PS3)!

posted 1:32pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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Word!  I've got a slim PSP and it's awesome.  If you don't have one yet and want one, get one of the bundles.  It's worth it.

posted 3:25pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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Let's hope Sony can keep this momentum going with the PSP.  Next in line is the PS3 outselling the Wii!

posted 3:31pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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dang!

posted 3:33pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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Yeh, f-ing awesome. It was due to the 77,000 PSP slim bundled with Crises core that Sony released that did it. Now that those bundle packs have been sold could these sales keep up?

Being realistic I think the sales for next week will drop slightly and continue to sell around 50-60k a week due to crises core and the psp slim. In a month i think they'll be down to around a steady 30k for a few weeks and then slowly pick up in Nov and reach 80-100k in December. The DS will reach 120k-150k in December.

 

I'm gonna keep track of my predictions and see how far off I am. Anyone else got any predictions?

posted 4:37pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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fI'm not surprised by this at all. The PSP has a ton of wonderful features that beat out any other handheld imo. That being said I'd get one but I'm lookin at Surround Sound first

posted 6:28pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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jesus christ that hugemongous

posted 10:11pm EDT - September 21st, 2007
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Games sell consoles not movies. Note that UMD movies didnt do this - one single game did. It also shows that listening to what customers want is a good idea. This is great news at last - could be the break weve waited for. Congratulations and thanks to Square.

posted 4:54am EDT - September 22nd, 2007
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Keep it up Sony !!! i'm about the trade my old PSP for the slim ... loving the remote play !!

posted 1:37pm EDT - September 22nd, 2007
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Excellent news indeed. Great work Sony and thank you very much Square-Enix for believing in the psp.

posted 4:19pm EDT - September 23rd, 2007
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Good for PSP. To me, it's by far the best handheld device up-to-date.
posted 6:56pm EDT - September 23rd, 2007
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@the cleaners.... lol, why are you Still stuck on the fact that PS3/psp play  awesome formats, and that people like renting/buying movies in between playing games?.... maybe you should give it a try, don't mock something till ya try it bro....your just ignorant...

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