Sales of Sony’s PlayStation Portable handheld accounted for exactly 50% of all Japanese game hardware sales last week, according to a report at Gamasutra. Attributing to the incredible popularity of March 27th’s release of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, Sony’s device trounced the DS and all other challengers.
Japanese market research firm Media Create compiled the following sales numbers:
Sony PSP - 129,986 units
Nintendo DS - 58,916 units
Nintendo Wii - 48,785 units
Sony PS3 - 11,206 units
Sony PS2 - 10,296 units
Microsoft Xbox 360 - 1,547 units
Gamasutra points out that software top fifty charts compiled the same week only listed seven PSP games, as compared to 23 DS releases, but topping the charts was Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, selling 880,468 copies in its first week and, according to the official Capcom blog, disrupting national productivity in the process.
Though the PSP has had considerable oversea success against the DS as of late, the year as a whole has not been quite as kind. Yesterday Famitsu publisher Enterbrain revealed that in 2007, the Nintendo DS sold nearly double that of the PSP, with 6,343,547 units to the PSP’s 3,427,971.
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