   November PSP sales figures in
  The sales figures are in for the November sales of the Playstion Portable (PSP). According to the NPD group (basically the source of almost all marketing/sales information you hear in the news) approximately 360,000 PSP units where sold in the month of November. To understand how many that is, a 5 year old 240x160 2D handheld powered by a 16mhz CPU with 8bit sound, the GameBoy Advance, sold 900,000 units this November according to the same NPD figures.   
  dont forget about the ds witch also still outsells it   ;  is this due to lack of hardware? i believe in europe they cant get enuf psps.i notice in the same month the ps2 outsold the xbox360. instead of spending billions on marketing ms would be better placing the cash outfitting some production facility.   ;  Sony has been trying to calm investor fears by claiming a supply shortage in Europe (they've also *twice* dropped their sales expectations in a matter of months). The issue at hand is that they are *still* claiming a supply shortage as the reason for low sales, months after the system was released, and despite the fact that the numbers just don't add up - when you look at the numbers Sony has been giving for how many PSPs have been shipped to stores in Europe, versus the number actually sold in Europe, you find there are over 1 million units gathering dust on store shelves. At best "supply shortage" in Sony speak means "we can't figure how to ramp up productions even given months of time, and we've shipped 1 million units to a little village in Romania where they don't have electricity)   ;Quote:Original post by zedzeekis this due to lack of hardware? i believe in europe they cant get enuf psps.i notice in the same month the ps2 outsold the xbox360. instead of spending billions on marketing ms would be better placing the cash outfitting some production facility.Are you sure you haven't mixed up your companies?*Sony* is the company claiming a supply shortage on the *PSP* as a reason for poor sales, months after its release, and despite the fact that many people report stores being full of them*Sony* is the company that sells the Playstation 2, which you believe and is very likely, outselling the XBox 360, a product made by *Microsoft*. The XBox 360 was released in Europe 8 days ago, and is suffering similar launch supply problems as it did in the US (stores only getting 8 units each and such), and that Sony had itself when it first launched the PS2, though supply problems are usually fixed within the first few weeks as production gears up.*Microsoft* is the company that has almost made a stealth release of the XBox 360. As commented on in many electronic entertainment sources, Microsoft seems to have spent almost no money advertising the launch of the XBox 360. Apparently Microsoft has chosen to let consumer based hype alone sell the first batch of units, rather then waste money trying to sell something people have already reserved months in advance, which seems to have worked quite well,;Quote:Original post by Michalson*Microsoft* is the company that has almost made a stealth release of the XBox 360. As commented on in many electronic entertainment sources, Microsoft seems to have spent almost no money advertising the launch of the XBox 360. Apparently Microsoft has chosen to let consumer based hype alone sell the first batch of units, rather then waste money trying to sell something people have already reserved months in advance, which seems to have worked quite well,You don't watch too much MTV do you? ;)The channel has been flooded with Xbox 360 for the last 3 or 4 months.  Not just advertising, but multiple specials dedicated entirely to the Xbox 360.  A lot of cash has been dumped into the MTV sinkhole from Microsoft.  But I'll agree that if you didn't watch the channel, you could have completely missed the launch.   ;Quote:Original post by Nuget5555Quote:Original post by Michalson*Microsoft* is the company that has almost made a stealth release of the XBox 360. As commented on in many electronic entertainment sources, Microsoft seems to have spent almost no money advertising the launch of the XBox 360. Apparently Microsoft has chosen to let consumer based hype alone sell the first batch of units, rather then waste money trying to sell something people have already reserved months in advance, which seems to have worked quite well,You don't watch too much MTV do you? ;)The channel has been flooded with Xbox 360 for the last 3 or 4 months.  Not just advertising, but multiple specials dedicated entirely to the Xbox 360.  A lot of cash has been dumped into the MTV sinkhole from Microsoft.  But I'll agree that if you didn't watch the channel, you could have completely missed the launch.people still watch MTV? thats news to me.   ;Quote:Original post by zedzeekis this due to lack of hardware? i believe in europe they cant get enuf psps.i notice in the same month the ps2 outsold the xbox360. instead of spending billions on marketing ms would be better placing the cash outfitting some production facility.Considering the xbox360 was only out for one week in november, and that microsoft was experiencing severe supply problems, I'd say we'd have to wait a few months to see how things really turn out.   ;  I'm sure christmas will ramp up their sales significantly. It's top of my list anyway.Could this be something to do with the latest firmware (2.0) preventing people from writing their own homebrew games? Perhaps this is just a very small minority but it's the main reason I've held out on getting one   ;  I'm not sure what to think of the PSP. It seems like its maybe a little too much for a hand held. Its hard to justify spending all that money on something that should be a secondary system. A handheld should be portable and cost effective because its not going to be played the same way a home system is. Yet at 250$ its currently the second most expensive system you can get. Second only to the brand spankin' new Xbox360. Which you can't really get anyway. So by that logic it is the most expensive system you can buy. Its cool that it has all that juice in it but maybe its not worth the price. If they toned it down just a tad and put it out for like 150$ mayby things would be a bit different.   