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Games for PSP have stolen the show this week in the Japanese sales charts.
New entry Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 takes the top spot, nearly doubling the sales of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 on PSP at two. The PS2 entry for the football series sells around 1000 less to take three.
The DS leads hardware sales, though - although the gap between the handhelds closes every week. Helping the Nintendo cause this week is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time on DS and Wii, which takes spaces five and seven, respectively.
Elsewhere there's little change. In total, DS counts 20 software entries, Wii has 10, PSP has seven, PS3 has six, PS2 has five and Xbox 360 has two.
| This Week | Last Week | Title | Platform | Weekly Sales | Lifetime Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New entry | Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 | PSP | 212,765 | 212,765 |
| 2 | New entry | Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 | PSP | 109,492 | 109,492 |
| 3 | New entry | Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 | PS2 | 108,189 | 108,189 |
| 4 | New entry | Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time | DS | 101,718 | 101,718 |
| 5 | 5 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) | PSP | 22,818 | 380,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Taiko: Drum Master Wii | Wii | 22,600 | 339,000 |
| 7 | New entry | Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time | Wii | 21,721 | 21,721 |
| 8 | 1 | New Control Play! Mario Power Tennis | Wii | 20,447 | 108,000 |
| 9 | 6 | Rhythm Tengoku Gold | DS | 20,130 | 1,634,000 |
| 10 | 7 | Wii Fit | Wii | 19,087 | 3,215,000 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | 70,760 | 65,294 | 555,162 | 25,674,805 |
| PlayStation Portable | 44,135 | 38,280 | 348,412 | 11,706,576 |
| Nintendo Wii | 23,278 | 26,770 | 243,589 | 7,722,490 |
| PlayStation 3 | 17,405 | 17,708 | 144,601 | 2,767,029 |
| Xbox 360 | 8107 | 7663 | 55,594 | 886,134 |
| PlayStation 2 | 5334 | 5007 | 35,347 | 21,434,871 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DSi | 55,613 | 51,618 | 1,123,665 | 1,661,842 |
| Nintendo DS Lite | 15,147 | 13,676 | 269,194 | 17,445,455 |
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Triggerhappytel
06/02/09 @ 12:39
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But, despite the facts, will it ever be acceptable to say the PSP has done pretty well this generation? It has nearly a third of the handheld hardware market, which is pretty impressive against Nintendo's unflinching dominance in the market for 20 years.
I just hope Sony pledges more consistent first and third party support to the PSP2. |
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Thunderbolt!
06/02/09 @ 13:20
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penhalion,
But like Yoda said to Luke - There is another... You seem to forget that that iphone/mobile gaming is on the ascendency which makes for a 3rd choice 'Add touchscreen to it and Sony would have a ds killer hands down. ' Sonys solution to most things is to add features that always neccesary in the minds of the consumers. Painful lessons have learnt this gen in both the PSP and PS3, which are both feature-rich but their rivals have done suprisingly well. The PSP desperately needs third-party support in the west. And to dropping the UMD. |
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The touch screen isn't the only reason the DS has trounced the PSP, so no a PSP with touch screen wouldn't necessarily be a DS killer.
Form factor/weight, battery life, reliability, graphics, quality and quantity of games then most importantly price all affect the desirability of a handheld gaming device, and the DS trounces the PSP in all of those aspects apart from graphics. Quality of games is a point neither side can claim to win, because that's entirely a matter of opinion - in mine, the DS wins again. It's been proven time and time again that weeks where the PSP sits on top in Japan are because of a release that Japanese people generally go nuts for (i.e JRPGs) and are nothing more than blips, so this news isn't anything to get excited over really. |
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@Lazy Dan
I'm simply going on what I would buy and not trying to analyse the hell out of things. If there was a PSP that could run a lot of the DS touch screen style games as well as the superior graphical and 3d games of a standard PSP, then I'd rush out and buy it. As for the iphone (which someone mentioned), without proper controls, it's very limited in what it can do. |
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canIdoyabombsforya
07/02/09 @ 15:04
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"Given there are only two choices in the handheld market. Why is everyone trying to analyse it to hell. The psp has a better graphical display. Add touchscreen to it and Sony would have a ds killer hands down"
But you and others were already saying it was a DS killer on launch. Back then DS had the piss ripped out of it by 'grown up gamers' perhaps why the debate continues. It was designed to be a DS killer, but its not about the hardware as Sony should only know too well from the PS2 being the weakest hardware last gen, but still succesful. So touch screen will now make it a DS killer will it, what next? Two screens? |
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