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Forums - Sales Discussion - 4.5 million PSPs sold in Asia (outside of Japan) - official Sony numbers!

johnsobas on 19 February 2009
outlawauron said:
BKK2 said:
NJ5 said:
BKK2 said:
Well, they've already launched Wii in Korea. As long as the hardware is profitable then I don't think the manufacturers are overly concerned about piracy in emerging markets. Lucky for SCE Asia that the loss-leading PS3 hasn't been hacked yet.

Is piracy that widespread in Korea?

Same as nearly everywhere else in Asia.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3698/piracy_in_korea_r4_triumphant.php

Interesting, but expected.

yes, everyone has a R4 in Korea, i don't think i ever saw a DS without a R4 in Korea and i saw a lot of DSs.  Didn't matter the age, 3rd graders all had them as well as junior high kids.

 



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BKK2 on 19 February 2009
johnsobas said:
well i can tell you from spending a year in korea that it's quite popular there, but DS is much more popular. I bet PSP is close to a million in korea alone, DS is well over 2 million now. The problem with these asian countries is nobody buys the games, everyone is pirating.

I missed DS hitting 2 million in Korea, but a quick Google showed it happened earlier this month. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

http://gonintendo.com/?p=71349

 



PullusPardus on 19 February 2009

Playstation 3 and PSP are more popular everywhere except US. people in the US needs to look at how things are outside their country for a second.



johnsobas on 19 February 2009
PullusPardus said:
Playstation 3 and PSP are more popular everywhere except US. people in the US needs to look at how things are outside their country for a second.

Actually that's not true at all, especially about the PS3.  Most other countries are more interested in handhelds than the US, that's the main reason the PSP isn't that popular.

 



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TheSource on 19 February 2009

PSP was at 380,000 in Mexico through the end of 2007 according to some internet sleuthing in English and Spanish. Mexico is 40-60% of the Latin America market so iits unlikely that PSP sales outside the USA and Canada (~15.8m) in the Americas total more than 1m through the end of January 2009. It still looks like a shipped figure, although 16.8m out of 18m shipped in sell through is pretty solid.

 

 



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Strategyking92 on 19 February 2009

Notice SCEAsia software sales though...
Hardware: 4.5 mill.
Software: 4.0 mill.

Piracy is evident over there. Oh well, they have to buy the system first



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