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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu: PSP sold 155,720 units last week including 141,270 PSP-3000

BKK2 on 21 October 2008
DOATS1 said:
yushire said:
So where are the other sales? HW or SW?

famitsu numbers are officially out tomorrow. until then, try and enjoy these numbers.

 

Well, not officially, but they do get leaked tomorrow :)

 



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Branko2166 on 21 October 2008

Whether or not most of those are trade ins it doesn't matter because they are still sales for Sony. Japan definitely has a lot of love for Sony they just gotta cater more to the Japanese with the ps3.



 

 

Diomedes1976 on 21 October 2008

Very very impressive ...



ecurbj on 21 October 2008

Damn, its proven that if any hardware revisions are made in Japan, they will sell!!!!



blackstar on 21 October 2008

that proves that people are well informed there about such stuff , right?



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konnichiwa on 21 October 2008
halil23 said:
illuminatus said:
And whats this?

"Expect PSP hardware sales to jump into 55,000 to 70,000 unit range."

Let me guess, it that Sony hater TheSource, I've said it before and will say it again - he loses all credible when predicting anything Sony related. I mean come on! 55k-70k prediction to a sales of 155k. That almost a 3x margin, that WAY off! Hell I don't bother studying marketing/sales and can do MUCH better than that!

Next thing you'll know in 2 weeks TheSource will predict 400k first week DSi sales!!!

That prediction he gives every week should be change to wishful thinking!

OT : Great sales, expect next (full) week to be around 150k again.

I can understand that you don't like him but calling him a Sony hater is a bridge to far.  Please check on the internet and you will see a lot of professional analysts who have failed a lot more than The Source did while he is stil an amature;

 






FinalEvangelion on 21 October 2008

My question, is why did 15k buy a PSP 1000 and 2000 this past week. Maybe Piracy...



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Spankey on 21 October 2008
FinalEvangelion said:
My question, is why did 15k buy a PSP 1000 and 2000 this past week. Maybe Piracy...

perhaps...or good deals at shops to shift old stocks?

 



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konnichiwa on 21 October 2008
FinalEvangelion said:
My question, is why did 15k buy a PSP 1000 and 2000 this past week. Maybe Piracy...

 

 Probably because they got a small pricedrop.






TheSource on 21 October 2008

I don't hate Sony but there was a much bigger jump from PSP to PSP 2000 then from PSP 2000 to PSP 3000 and much better software to support that hardware refresh. There was no dramatic increase in PSP software this week so its not like the signs were pointing to 150k. I had been expecting 15k PSP/PSP 2000 and 35k-55k PSP 3000 which you have to consider is 2x-3x what PSP had been PSP had been selling the last few weeks, and up to the level PSP had been at in total before it dropped after the Leipzig announcement in August. PSP is definitely a bit strange in Japan because hardware and software trends tend to not follow each other as precisely as they do on all the other platforms due to the heavy piracy.

 

 



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