PSP Sales Soar

[ALLRPG News]

In Japan the new release of Kingdom Hearts has fueled the PSP fire.An astouding 145.000 PSP units found their way into consumers homes following the release of the new Kingdom Hearts game. The love didn’t quite catch on to the PSP’s much debated sibling; the PSPGo.Shifting only a mere 2850 units, it now seems not [...]

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[WOTON]

That's great for Sony. Maybe we can get more and better games for our psp's.

[Luisfe]

Since Atlus just announced (On Twitter) that they ARE localizing Persona 3 for the PSP, I may have to goddamn buy one. Damn.

[Raph]

Europe is getting some nice price drops on the PSP models:

PSP 3000:
down from 169 euros to 119 euros for the standalone
down from 189 euros to 139 euros for bundles
PSP go:
down from 250 euros to 179 euros, still with 10 free games to download from PSN.

Hopefully, North America will get similar price-cuts. That would help move a lot of units for the holiday season.