The PSP has reached a big milestone in its four year life, by clearing more than 50 million units sold worldwide, Sony has trumpeted.
The handled launched in Japan back in December, 2004, with a Western launch arriving the following year on March 24, 2005 in North America and September 1 in Europe and PAL regions.
The portable's been criticised for its lack of big first-party releases of late, but Sony points out that more than 2,000 UMD titles are now available worldwide, with software sell-in units reaching 200 million to date.
And apparently, it's not forgotten about the future either: "SCE will vigorously promote the expansion of the PSP platform and offer a variety of interactive digital entertainment," it said in a statement.
Just don't make it any slimmer - we've got enough of the things already.
Yesterday we reported that the UK PSP manager said expects new new IPs for the handheld in '09. "This year we are also launching a host of significant PlayStation IPs on the PSP platform."
Wow! I didn't realize it'd sold so many. I expect that a massive proportion of this is down to the sheer number of new models and colours available to the Japanese market though.
Let's just hope that they stay true to their word about significant upcoming games. Locoroco can't justify the handheld forever...
Really enjoyed the Resistance demo released yesterday for it. It's a better story than R2 and the graphics are excellent for a hand held. They should also consider releasing a lot of the PS2 classics for it.
That can't be far off the pace of the PS2 now can it? It's just a shame it hasn't got the reputation of that machine aswell .
I personally don't own a PSP and don't plan to, there's just not much that interests me on there.
Bring a PSP2 out, with another anaologue stick and shape it so you can use both and press buttons at the same time. Christ, make it a dualshock 3 with a screen on for all I care, i'd buy it then.
I can't believe it is selling well at the moment as there are hardly any games being released for it and this has been the case for the past 12 months at least. I have not turned mine on for about a year.
Despite having a less than stellar game library I've really enjoyed owning one. It's a good system in itself, so much potential. Good to hear they're working on new IPs for it too.
Wow 50 Million? It just goes to show how much piracy is on the PSP then, with 50 million units to sell too and only a handful of publishers wishing to take the risk of making a game for it! Nowadays its more a multimedia unit than a games machine, Sony if you ever make a PSP2 sort the ergonomics of the design out, holding the bloody thing gives you cramp after 10 mins!
I think Nintendo are going to take full advantage of the DSi though and provide popular services like they've already implemented in it.
50 million is good and I may get a PSP at some point but DSi takes priority and I'll probably get a Wii before I get a PSP. And then there's all the great games... too many games, too little time.
What a load of Crap, Sony talking out of there bottoms again. They haven't even reached 45 million sales yet so why tell a blatent lie ! Someone needs to grill them on this !! Cant handle the fact they are getting wipping left right and centre by nintendo. Ha ha, how times have changed, give it a couple of weeks and nintendo will be repoting 100million sales, and that is accurate not 5 million give or take.
What a load of Crap, Sony talking out of there bottoms again. They haven't even reached 45 million sales yet so why tell a blatent lie ! Someone needs to grill them on this !! Cant handle the fact they are getting wipping left right and centre by nintendo. Ha ha, how times have changed, give it a couple of weeks and nintendo will be repoting 100million sales, and that is accurate not within 5 million give or take.
What a load of Crap, Sony talking out of there bottoms again. They haven't even reached 45 million sales yet so why tell a blatent lie ! Someone needs to grill them on this !! Cant handle the fact they are getting wipping left right and centre by nintendo. Ha ha, how times have changed, give it a couple of weeks and nintendo will be repoting 100million sales, and that is accurate not within 5 million give or take.
Sony often get confussed between Shipped and Sold. They made have made and set out 50 Mil (which is impressive itself) but it is unlikely they sold that many and even if they did, the DS is still p**sing all over it in sales, the amount of games, and the amount of games that are good (and I'll admit that 85% of the DS back-cat is crappy games for the under 5s).
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