PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Portable
Released:	U.S. - March 24, 2005 Japan - December 12, 2004 Europe - September 1, 2005
Announced:	E3 2003 (May 2003)
Generation:	Seventh generation
Price:	$170 (US)
Units shipped:	31 million [1]
Best-selling games:	Daxter - 2 million[2]

Playstation Portable (PSP) is Sony's second handheld gaming console after the Pocket Station. It competes with the Nintendo DS. It will be succeeded by the PSP 2 (temporary name).

The PSP, in Japan, is outselling the Wii and DS from Jan 2008 to April 2008. Strangely, very few games are appearing in the charts, with the only apparent success being the Monster Hunter series. There is uncertainty whether consumers are buying the PSP and pirating games or if they're buying the PSP for it's media and online capabilities. It's best selling game is Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.

PlayStation Portable hardware sales figures

Main article: Seventh generation of video games

PSP dev kit, reported to cost $7,500 at launch and came down to $4,000[3]

PlayStation Portable sales figures (based on official financial reports[4])
Date	Quarterly sales	Worldwide sales	Source
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2005)
Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2005)
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2005)	6.22	15.00	[5]
Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2006 )
2006 fiscal year sales
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2006)	1.37
Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2006)	1.88
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2006)	4.68
Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2007)	1.60
2007 fiscal year sales	9.53		[6]
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2007)	2.13
Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2007)	2.58
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2007)	5.76
Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2008)	3.42
2008 fiscal year sales	13.89
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2008)	3.72		[7][8]
Quarter 2 (ending Sep 30, 2008)	3.18		[9]
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2008)	5.08		[10]
Quarter 4 (ending Mar 31, 2008)	2.13		[11]
2009 fiscal year sales	14.11	???	[12]
Quarter 1 (ending Jun 30, 2009)	1.3		[13]
Quarter 2 (ending Sept 30, 2009)
Quarter 3 (ending Dec 31, 2009)
Quarter 4 (ending March 30, 2010)
2010 fiscal year sales		???
Total worldwide sales (as of January 2009)		51.26 million shipped	[14]

PlayStation Portable software sales figures

PlayStation 2 software sales figures
Year	Annual software sales (million units)	Cumulative software sales (million units)	Source
Fiscal year ending March 2005	5.7	5.7
Fiscal year ending March 2006	54.7	60.4
Fiscal year ending March 2007	55.3	115.7
Fiscal year ending March 2008	50.3	166
Fiscal year ending March 2009	44.4	210.4
Fiscal year ending March 2010	46.6	257
Fiscal year ending March 2011	32.2	289.2
Fiscal year ending March 2011	28.8	318
Total software sales		318

Sales figures tidbits

Top PSP games in Japan

• Worldwide
  • January 2009: 50 million [15]
• Europe:
  • May 2008: 12 million [16]
• United Kingdom:
  • September 2005 (launch): 185,000 units [17]
  • September 2007: 2.2 million [18]
  • January 2008: 2.6 million [19]
  • September 2008: 2.9 million [20]
  • January 2009: 3.2 million [21]
• France
  • January 2017: 3.582 million [22]
• Italy:
  • July 2007: 732.500 units sold (GfK)
  • December 2007: 900,000 units sold [23]
• Japan:
  • 8 weeks after launch: 1 million PSP Slim units [24]
  • 2 1/2 months after launch: 1 million PSP original units [25]
• United States:
  • Seven days after launch: 602,000 units [26]
  • April 2007: 7.4 million [27]
  • January 2008: 10.47m [28]
• Australia:
  • Launch: 27,000 [29]

See also

• Nintendo DS

Charts

Japan handheld yearly sales (image courtesy of ChartGet)

External links

• 10 million PSPs sold in Japan
• Japan game sales figures for PlayStation Portable
• Yoshida: Third Party PSP Support is “Really Disappointing”
• Casual Connect: Sony On Developing for an Open PS2 Platform

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