Sony Japan saw sales of the PlayStation Portable explode for the week ended July 20th, with the surge likely attributed to the release of the Metallic Blue edition and the release of a "1 Seg" tuner pack.
According to data from Media Create, Sony sold 74,000 of the handheld in the region, up almost 20,000 units week-on-week.
For those unfamiliar, the "1 Seg" tuner is a "special type ... [ read the full article ]
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Now, all thats needed is for Sony and Nintendo to start making a rainbow of PS3 and WII's and they will see a good surge of sales. And a white ps3 will surely match my wii or a blackwii will match my 60gb ps3,or maybe a set of silver wii and ps3, which one will come out first, I wonder. :)
This surge of PSP sales will only continue until Sony changes the PSP?s hardware parameters that currently permits the user to boot into service mode. We got to face the facts, these numbers only exist because people can flash custom firmware, period. The Xbox 1 had a surge of sales near the end of its time-span due to the same reason. Even though the 360 had a shelf life of about a year. When it was announced that it was going to discontinued, people started buying them quickly, I was one of them. If any changes are made to the hardware, sales will plummet guaranteed.
