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PSP Dominates Japanese Sales Charts

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In its second week running, the PSP Slim and Lite is still selling strong in Japan. In fact, the PSP outpaced the DS Lite this week by 56,000 units, selling 128,000 units total.

Software sales were equally as impressive this week, with the top three sellers being Pokemon Dungeon (DS), Halo 3 (Xbox 360), and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP).

Full sales breakdown courtesy of Media Create after the jump.

PSP 128000
DSL 72000
Wii 25000
PS2 13000
PS3 13000
360 5800

1. Pokemon 97,000 (857,000)
2. Halo 3 61,000
3. Crisis Core 61,000 (664,000)
4. Tamagotchi 3 48,000
5. MGS Portable Ops+ 41,000 (130,000)
6. Bleach 32,000
7. Yugioh 30,000
8. Eiyuu Densetsu 26,000
9. Evangelion Magokoro 24,000
10. PSU Illuminas 24,000
11. Kanji Kentei 2 23,000
12. Oblivion 23,000
21. Wangan PSP 10,000
23. Kekkaishi 9,800
27. Agarest Senki 9,000
28. Eigo Kentei DS 8,900
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Media Create Sales [NeoGAF]
 
Wow. Sony are doing well with the Slim. Pokemon beat Halo! What has the world come to... xD
 
roe-ur-boat said:
Wow. Sony are doing well with the Slim. Pokemon beat Halo! What has the world come to... xD
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What are you talkin' 'bout, roe? In Japan, Pokemon > EVERYTHING (exception- Final Fantasy)
 
well,i play Pokemon and I'm meant to be a responible adult with a job and attending college.....so...i dunno....pokemon rocks though
 
the thing that ruined pokemon's image in the UK at least was the massive amounts of merchadise which was aimed at kids....that in turn made the games look like they were for kids which if anyone who's played them would be able to tell you their not.
 
MenaceInc said:
well,i play Pokemon and I'm meant to be a responible adult with a job and attending college.....so...i dunno....pokemon rocks though
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:laugh:LMAO Sorry, that cracks me up.

Yeah, personally, I do still play Pokemon games, although Diamond and Pearl, for some reason, were just gut-wrenchingly terrible... I think it had to do with how slow your person moved, and after you hit with an attack, the slight delay before the actual damage hit... That time racked up, by the end of a battle it took about 10 more seconds than it should've. That just annoyed me to the point of no return, I dunno why, just one of those things that unexplainably piss me off.
 
Cheezeball99 said:
:laugh:LMAO Sorry, that cracks me up.

Yeah, personally, I do still play Pokemon games, although Diamond and Pearl, for some reason, were just gut-wrenchingly terrible... I think it had to do with how slow your person moved, and after you hit with an attack, the slight delay before the actual damage hit... That time racked up, by the end of a battle it took about 10 more seconds than it should've. That just annoyed me to the point of no return, I dunno why, just one of those things that unexplainably piss me off.
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Same here... but I think the series is losing its charm, to be honest I wasn't impressed with Diamond and Pearl.

I would like to see what Nintendo could do with a real Pokemon game on the Wii (real, as in a RPG, not another spinoff like Stadium)
 
x3sphere said:
Same here... but I think the series is losing its charm, to be honest I wasn't impressed with Diamond and Pearl.

I would like to see what Nintendo could do with a real Pokemon game on the Wii (real, as in a RPG, not another spinoff like Stadium)
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thats what the fans have been calling out for since pokemon appeared. :P
 
I gotta say pokemon could quit right now and be ranking in the dough for years and as long as they keep making it they will be people who buy it also didn't an rpg esque pokemon come out for the cube.
 
Yeah. Back on the Slim, while there was a huge sales increase in Japan, I think PSP sales aren't going to improve much here in the US.

US marketing for the Slim is totally f'ed up, Sony is not marketing it here as a PSP Slim but just as the same old PSP Core Pack. Nothing on the box says it has a slimmer design or anything, so your average store clerk doesn't even know that a PSP Slim is out...
 
x3sphere said:
Yeah. Back on the Slim, while there was a huge sales increase in Japan, I think PSP sales aren't going to improve much here in the US.

US marketing for the Slim is totally f'ed up, Sony is not marketing it here as a PSP Slim but just as the same old PSP Core Pack. Nothing on the box says it has a slimmer design or anything, so your average store clerk doesn't even know that a PSP Slim is out...
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Yeah, that has to be, by far, one of the worst marketings of a new product in years... A LACK OF ONE.
 
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