Sony confirms that there's some 400,000 psps sittingon shelves unsold. http://gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=7885
600k Units for a march launch at $250 is still pretty freaking good. I think by xmas time psp sales should be quite high.
yeah thats not bad at all, they just overjudged the demand right now. Better safe than sorry I guess. Although you can see how people already spun it negatively. The ps2 sell outs were annoying but it made them look very successful.
Not for the usa. A milion units is nothing considering there's 29 million ps2 us. That's 2% of the existing user base picking up a system compared to 8% of gamecube owners buying a ds in roughly the same period of time. 7,800,000 sell 500,000 29,000,000 sell 600,000 However if you go by the logic of profits, it's equivalent to selling 1,000,000 DS units. Clearly PSP is not for children, and that is the dilemma, for as a working man, I have so little time for console gaming, the psp is almost nonexistant in my mind. It strikes me as the toy for rich teenagers 17-19 years of age. And so a poll has been added!
Considering the demand for the PS2 at launch, the PSP severely pales in comparison. What about the iPod mini--those were $250 at launch and you couldn't find one ANYWHERE. The DS, at $150, sold out its initial stock in a week.
I dont think it's proper to compair the Gamecube owners insted of gameboy owners. A majority that jumped on the DS were gameboy owners which is comparible to ps2 numbers. Sony suplied an excess of stock on this one. It they shorten the numbers like in japan it would have been the same effect as japanese launch and Ds usa launch. Just my opinion but the PSP is actualy great and far from just a rich kids toy. Due to work and my gf I have only played 1 console game over the last 3-4 months. I rarely get to play game on console period. Yet I have 5 psp games I have been playing my psp every day since I got it in december. I just have more opertunities to play a psp somewhere for 5-30 mins then I do to play a console game at home.
Can you just not actually read things...? Over half a million units were sold in the first Weekend. (mind u they cant quiet remember what console they were talking about). So its sold over half a million in the first week in total. With alot of that being in the first weekend. Now if you compare this to the Amazing problem free cheap all god powerfull DS which sold its stock within the first week.... well thats because they shipped only half a million units.... which took over a week to sell. So the PSP sold alot better then the DS if you take price into account as well.
