According to Famitsu, psp is selling like hotcakes in China, the major chinese video game website tgbus estimated around 30k-40k psp coming from japan are sold weekly in China.

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1216807_1124.html

Could you post a link to the tgbus article stating PSP sales are 30-40k/week please? Famitsu article doesn't mention it.

ehm.. it doesn't state that anywhere in article..

They'd be counted as Japanese sales, which means almost NO Japanese would be buying PSP's themselves...........

And how many games are sold in the same time ?  10 ? 100 ? 

that article is about
"120 yen in the latest software sold in China's online game shops infiltrate terror report"...

If this is true, then the global software attach ratio of the PSP will go down even further. Then again, Sony supposedly makes a profit on each PSP sold so it's a good thing for them. Just look at it as selling a cd player there. Chances of people actually buying legal Sony music for them are extremely small, but they still make a profit on the hardware.

I remember these:

These are binders with all the illegal game copies which you can buy..

You just point to the ones you want to have and he gets the illegal copies for you from the back... xD

Actually they'd be imported from Hong Kong, but until I see the original article I remain sceptical about the amounts mentioned.

http://www.pcpop.com/doc/0/180/180678_1.shtml

This is an old article, it did a research on psp sales in China.