Something seems to be wrong with the PSP software sales.

Last week 43.65% of PSP sales came from below top the 200 level.

It seems way to high compared to the other systems.

Number 200 sold 1313 copies. To make up the 53,045 sold for the PSP below top 200 level. PSP would have to have over 40 games sell at least 1313 copies. PSP only had 25 games in the top 200.

This happens in other weeks also.

Is there something wrong here or does the PSP just have a lot of games that sale below the top 200 numbers?

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Sony has itself admitted that PSP has too many PS2 ports.  I would presume ports that are exactly as the PS2 game but portable make up the majority of PSP games, which is why a number are not in the top 200.  Interesting how he has data for more than what he reports though isn't it...

TheSource said: Sony has itself admitted that PSP has too many PS2 ports.  I would presume ports that are exactly as the PS2 game but portable make up the majority of PSP games, which is why a number are not in the top 200.  Interesting how he has data for more than what he reports though isn't it...

Yeah it is interesting how he has more data than he reports in the top 200, and I like that.

I agree with all the ports, but there seems to be too many games that would have to be sold at low levels to make up this difference, but I could be wrong.

One interesting thing about this number is that the PSP shifts more units outside the top 200 than any other platform. If it were just %age, it's not so bad. But moving 53k units when DS (which has far more titles) only moves 40k units is unusual.

It would indicate that PSP is moving a large variety of titles, but due to the smaller install base, not to a volume that would hit the top 200.

But, for that to be the case, it would mean that stores would have large variety of low sellers and devote same amount of shelf space to the PSP as DS, which would not make sense since DS software sell much more

And yet if you walk into any store they do seem to have as much shelf space for PSP as for DS still.

It's pretty common-sense - more DS titles make the chart, more PSP ones don't. It's a side-effect of generally poor software sales.

ioi said: Well exactly. If there are 200 DS and 200 PSP games, 100 DS games make the top 200 and only 20 PSP games do then there is a good chance that outside of the top 200 PSP outsells DS, which is what is happening here. There are a lot of PSP games all selling mediocre amounts. And yes, I do have plenty of data outside of the top 200

This is weird I only see 41 DS games in top 200, and 25 PSP last week. Week before that it was 40 DS 26 PSP.

In Japan DS have over 100 and PSP over 10. But total sales for PSP in Japan was 90,200 and all but 178 copies sold in those 12 games in the top 200. Thats less than 1% out of top 200. In America its over 40%. And I know that almost all sales in Japan are in the top 200 because its a smaller market, and I know Japan is a bad comparison because PSP sales are good only at release and then drop like a rock.

Another thing that is weird is most stores that I go to dont have anywhere near 200 PSP games that they would be selling. The average is probably about 50.

Again I am not saying your data is wrong, I'm sure you know the data you are collecting. I just dont really see how it is possible, all those numbers just seem to weird to me.

So if you say those American PSP numbers are good. I will buy it.

Maybe ioi has less data (i.e. none?) for the Japanese charts outside of the top 100. That would explain the 1% vrs 40%.

I wonder how much of that data (outside the top 100/200) is extrapolated badly. It tends to work much worse when you are dealing with small figures (i.e. say 1 store, sells 1 units of a game - that could be extrapolated to 100 units nationwide - when it could just as easily still be 1 unit). Not much that can be done anyway - except collect more data, which is what ioi is already doing!