I just checked this year sales in Japan, and i see only one PSP title in the top 3 (the only million sellers), not two... not many other PSP titles in the top 50 anyway, but many DS titles just behind, very close to the million mark... just take a look...

http://vgchartz.com/japyearly.php

He is talking about crisis core.

Actually I meant the diffrence between the sales of the old Metroids and MPH for the DS in Japan ... because I thaught that we are only taking in consideration DS games ... you know because PH is on the DS . Its true that MP and Zelda was never the best in Japan , but seeing that MP3 will stop under 2 million , depending how long legs it got , its sad , especially when simulators like Nintendogs are passing the 10 million mark . Im a Sony fanboy , but I can seriously say that both Metroid and Zelda are games that I would wish a lot to be able to play . Forget Mario or Kirby ... this two games are real masterpieces , and seeing that the sales are far wors than the new franchises ... or Marios , Im afarid that sooner or later Nintendo will make thsi two lest remaining hardcore forts softcore to .

kn : I know I saw your sig . I have to agree with you to , that its true , that most gamers like epic games  on home consoles . Unfortunatly for me , because my all time traveling the only possibilities for gaming are my laptop and my PSP , so I often get a bit overprotective on portable gaming .

Also , It would be funny if the 2 best selling portable games of the year would be PSP games . As somebody mentioned , it would be interesting to see from all the semiflops , flops and mass RPGs to rise the 2 best selling handheldgames of the year , more excatly MHF2 and CC :P 

What is MHF2?

I have to admit, this is the first time I've yet even heard of this game.

Notice how after Lair utterly bombed people are now trying to hype the PSP once again? Remember the early days of the PS3 launch when things seemed really really bad? All people could talk about was the PSP.

I think by "legs" people usually talk about year-to-year sales. For instance, many people (in Japan and US and Europe) will buy Zelda for this holiday season, and then in Japan again next March.

As for 700k being low for an unpopular franchise in a single country, I'd have to disagree.

Z:PH should sell (or get close to selling) 1m in both the US & Europe/others this year.

That will bring total sales to around 3m by the end of '07. I would think it should sell another 1.5-2.0m in '08, so by the end of '08 - 5m units sold.

This still pales in comparision with NSMB, Nintendogs, etc...

So maybe it will have some legs - but just not the mass market appeal that the other games have. 

wow there really was a lack of quality DS releases in Japan this year. Only Zelda and DQ:M had any hope.