PSP has passed GBA in Japan!

[jarrod]

KillerMan said:

hallowedbeeddie said:

Great for psp indeed, But to be fair gba was cut short by the ds releasing just 3 years after it 

That's good point but you must also remember that GBA had no competition at all. PSP has had DS and rising smartphone game market.

Smartphones aren't anything in Japan, at least in terms of games.  The rise of keitai (ie: mobile) gaming in Japan actually happened alongside GBA in the early 2000s, with 3 dominant platforms that still exist and thrive today for mobile games (NTT DoCoMo's iMode, KDDI's EZweb and Softbank's J-Phone).  GBA also released against just established handhelds like Neo*Geo Pocket Color and WonderSwan Color, though it made short work of them pretty quick... just because GBA either slaughtered (handhelds) or thrived against (mobiles) it's competition doesn't mean it never had any.