Ds looks like it's starting to pull away in the US now...

[Zeus]

I thought it was just in Japan

http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/674/674747p1.html

It's surprising considering Kart came out a couple of weeks later than Liberty Stories.

Guess it's true, cheap sells with the handhelds

[Eric]

It's not at all surprising. The question is can the PSP stay popular enough and steal enough of the handheld market to go toe to toe with whatever Nintendo has planned after the Nintendo DS.

The fact that it hasn't been blown out of the water is probley a good thing. Sony's no microsoft but theoretically they may be using the same strategy $soft is used with the 360.

[Eric]

More fun stats.

Since the first Xbox went on sale three years ago, Microsoft has sold 21.9 million machines globally -- but only 1.8 million in Asia, including Japan.

By contrast, Sony has sold 91 million PlayStation 2 consoles in the last five years, 21 million of them in Asia.

[Julius Seeker]

I thought it was just in Japan

Actually North America is the DS's top market.

[Imakeholesinu]

Problem with the PSP, no good standalone handheld titles are out for it.

[Zeus]

I thought it was just in Japan

Actually North America is the DS's top market.

I meant the dominance. The US is the top market......period

[Julius Seeker]

I thought it was just in Japan

Actually North America is the DS's top market.

I meant the dominance. The US is the top market......period

Sony hasn't released any official PSP sales figures for the PSP since shortly its launch periods. They have released shipment figures though. Keep in mind these shipment figures are quite misleading since as many as 2/3rds of those units are sitting in store warehouses or on store shelves (since independent sales trackers in Europe and Japan are reporting far fewer sales than actual shipments).