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PSP outsells all other consoles in Japan for April

article published on 4 May, 2008

According to game magazine publisher Enterbrain the Sony PSP outsold all game consoles in Japan handily for the month of April including 2-to-1 sales over its main rival, the Nintendo DS. For the four weeks ended April 27th, PSP unit sales came to 380,867 units, beating DS sales of 169,911 units. However, in the bigger picture, the Nintendo Wii outsold the Sony PlayStation 3 by a 5-to-1 ... [ read the full article ]

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ZeusAV
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4. May 2008 @ 15:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
GTAIV won't be released in Japan this month and even when it does come over there it won't do much to affect sales.
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4. May 2008 @ 16:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ZeusAV:
GTAIV won't be released in Japan this month and even when it does come over there it won't do much to affect sales.
Fair point, i have edited the article.
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4. May 2008 @ 16:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I never got why people are so concerned with sales numbers in Japan.
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4. May 2008 @ 17:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by 713tex:
I never got why people are so concerned with sales numbers in Japan.
because a large part of the gaming industry is there. including US, and parts of Europe.
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I think this has to to do with the release of FF7 Crisis Core. I bought a psp to play the game as well.
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5. May 2008 @ 10:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
^Same here. I'd been thinking about getting one. FF Crisis Core was the little push i needed to pick one up.
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5. May 2008 @ 19:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and the sales are doing good because they can install the hacked firmware on there psp handhelds and play illegally downloaded games this is only why the console is doing good have you ever noticed how if a console can be hacked to run illegal games how quick the sales of that console take off look at the nintendo ds
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6. May 2008 @ 02:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Who did $ony bribe to do this feat ?

"The flimsier the product,the higher the price"
Ferengi 82nd rule of aqusition


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10. May 2008 @ 02:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This has nothing to do with Crisis Core, CC was released in Japan long before it hit America, as usual. If anything it has to do with Monster Hunter Portable G 2, which sold by the bucket load when it got released. Also, the DS is in the hands of somewhere around 1 in 4 people in Japan. So the only place it has to go is down. Now people are moving on the PSP and it is selling strong, because of that game.
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