PSP Price Drop Fails to Ignite Sales

gamefreak101 | May 19, 2007 | News | Playstation Portable

Although, PSP sales in Europe have slightly increased due to the price cut, sales in the United States still lag behind with only 182,000 units sold. while The DS continued to dominate sales in the U.S. with 471,000 units sold.

The NPD Group today released videogame hardware sales data for April and Nintendo's Wii and DS consoles were again the big winners, as both platforms dominated all competitors. On the other hand, despite receiving a price drop, PSP sales refused to increase much from last month. The handheld still lagged far behind Nintendo's alternative.

Nintendo DS was the overall best-selling system of April with approximately 471,000 units sold. On the other hand, Sony's PSP managed 182,000 units sold.

Despite being in limited supply, Wii was, meanwhile, the best-selling console for the month. More than 360,000 new consumers purchased Nintendo's home console in April, nearly doubling the nearest competitor. The second best-selling home system was PlayStation 2 with 193,000 units sold. Microsoft's Xbox 360 managed 174,000 units sold and Sony pulled off less than half of that, at a meager 82,000 PlayStation 3 consoles.

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Rinkydink | May 20, 2007

Hmm the PSP's price skimming tactic didn't go on to work so well so it seems, though I bet the price cut will slowly benefit Sony and they'll get a fair few more sales in the near future.
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Final Blade | May 20, 2007

As soon as we get some new psp games to download on to the psp, the sales will be booming. Right now it doesnt exactly matter how much the psp made. That price is still great no matter what.
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BANDITO ATTACK | May 20, 2007

Eh, it's only one month, kids. Just wait for the new PSP style to drop, people should eat it up.
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volacide | May 21, 2007

I kind of enjoy being one of the few owners (compared to the DS' enormous owner base that is) of this glorious product.

I love my homebrew PSP. I've had more fun with it than I have my 360 and PS3 combined to be quite honest. Nothing beats playing your favorite PS1 titles ANYWHERE and ANYTIME you want. I've beaten Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, and Resident Evil all on my PSP and it was enormous fun.

Not to mention the ability to put my favorite movies like Fight Club on there too and watch those as well, great for flights. The screen is still second to none as far as portable media devices go.
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Raijin1999 | May 23, 2007

Many aren't aware of the price drop.

PSP needs some freakin' RTS games. It's the untapped genre the PSP is able to handle, yet oddly hasn't been done much. Would increase the sales of PSP batteries too. :3
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Vermillion | May 28, 2007

The PSP needs GAMES. Most of the games I played sucked. The Legend Of Heroes games where good, though.
I think that Sony should look the PSP as a Gaming system (What is it, originally) instead of a multimedia player.
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Seeker X | May 28, 2007

Uhhh...Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, Killzone: Liberation, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Medal of Honor: Heroes, Valhalla Knights...just to name a few (Unless you got a problem with games OUTSIDE the RPG genre).

The system is expensive anyways, short and simple. Especially the people that aren't aware of it's library (as shown above) don't believe that something that small deserve such a high price, can't blame them.