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PSP sells more than all it's competitors put together in Japan

Silver Mirror | April 03, 2008 | News | Playstation Portable 
Apparently it's easy to please the people of Japan, just release a popular game with it and your sales will soar. This time the cause of the massive amount of sales was none other than the Monster Hunter G 2nd which allowed the PSP to sell 139 000 last week. More than all of the consoles combined!
Another day, another story about how the release of Monster Hunter Portable G 2nd in Japan has caused a country-wide frenzy of consumerism. Since its release last Thursday, the game reportedly sold out on its first day on sale, then went on to shift over one million copies within six days.

Today, chart data from Famitsu based on software and console sales for last week (March 24-30th) and reprinted here shows what sort of impact the game's release has had on console sales in Japan.

Answer: a massive one.

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    jmac353 | April 03, 2008
    Japan is awesome. I wish America was as avid about gaming as they are.
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    ShinyMilotic | April 04, 2008
    What, so there would be more child obesity lol? Well nice job Monster Hunter.
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      jmac353 | April 04, 2008
      I don't know if that was just a joke or just a matter of being uninformed, but have you ever taken a look at Japan? Most of them are in much better physical shape than us. Largely due to their diet which consists largely of rice.
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        Chris7689 | April 04, 2008
        yea its rare you see an over weight japanese person.... not counting sumo wrestlers lol.

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