PSP Slim tops 1m in Japan

By Tom Bramwell Published 26 November, 2007

Image-conscious world.

Sony has shipped over one million units of the new model PlayStation Portable in Japan, the platform holder announced today.

A close read of the release (i.e. closer than the one we initially gave it) also reveals that the number does not include the 77,777 units of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII-specific PSPs already sold. Even better.

Even without them, the increasingly tiny handheld's Slim & Lite revision reached the 1 million milestone two weeks quicker than the console nobody's calling the PSP Chunky.

Exciting stuff, eh? The Slim & Lite is already on sale in the US and Europe, retailing for GBP 129.99 in this silly country where it's available in black and white colours.

Despite a reduction in size, the Slim & Lite features reworked innards that allow it to achieve comparable battery life to the original model.

It can also be used to output certain elements like UMD films to big-screen TV using an external AV cable, has a manual rather than spring-loaded disc tray and has completed half a first-aid course including plasters.

You can read more about how and whether it works in our PSP Slim & Lite Hardware Test. We like capital letters.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

Read more articles from Tom by visiting the Tom Bramwell archive page.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • DonnieDarko333 #1 4 years ago

    I like my old PSP, but i suppose i would have upgraded if the PSP had many more first-party titles coming out for it!

    Only Sypthon Filter: Dark Shadow and GOW PSP are tempting me, therefore i feel it's pointless buying a PSP Slim and Lite at the mo....

  • SeesThroughAll #2 4 years ago

    "Image-conscious world"

    *ahem*

  • BBIAJ #3 4 years ago

    I'm hoping to get my hands on a Deep Red with SEG TV Tuner thanks to someone I know that currently resides in the land of the rising sun.

  • DFawkes #4 4 years ago

    I wouldn't mind a PSP Slim, now there's a good selection of games out. Especially Star Wars Renegade Squadron, as I loved Battlefront 2

  • dllord #5 4 years ago

    Image-conscious Japan! more like!

  • Steroyd #6 4 years ago

    Did you know it took 2 years for me to complete GTA:LCS, and i stopped playing on it when I was up to the last mission for a whole year, I hate me. >:(

    GTA:VCS I think is frikken awesome, especially the checkpoints when you do 5 levels of every side mission, and how you can re-buy all the stuff that was taken away, now I don't have to load the game everytime I get wasted, Busted... awesome.

    And apparently you can overtake business property and assemble a gang like GTA:SA but better could end up being the best GTA i've played so far, and my faith in GTA IV restored. \o/

  • mrraspy #7 4 years ago

    woohoo go go psp

  • pompeystallion #8 4 years ago

    Hmmm.......BBIAJ.....

    You do know that the SEG TV Tuner is ISDB-T and it wont work ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF JAPAN!.....No.....?

  • HermitArcader #9 4 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • zedzee #10 4 years ago

    How many units has the Nintendo DS sold then?