PSP is First Portable To Top Nintendo in a Major Market for a Year - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 07 January 2011 / 6,040 Views
After checking historical data, VGC can confirm that 2010 was the first time a rival portable system beat all Nintendo portable(s) in Japan or any other market since Nintendo has been making DS, GBA, GB, and Game & Watch devices. In 2005, Sony's PSP outsold Nintendo's DS in the USA and the Americas, by about 1.15m units, although the still vibrant GBA outsold both in the year. Thus, Nintendo still effectively led the portable market.
In Japan, Sony sold 2.90m PSPs in 2010, while Nintendo sold 2.88m DS systems. Worldwide, DS easily triumpthed over the PSP once more in 2010. Nonetheless, Sony is the first company to ever beat Nintendo in the Japanese portable market over an entire year. Sony is also the first company to see its portable system(s) outsell all Nintendo portable systems in a major gaming region.
Trends have been strange for both devices. DS took off in Japan first, while it still looked like it might fail in the West before growing for years in the West to record levels. PSP took off in the West, but collapsed in 2009 - 2010 particularly for software, just as it was really taking off in Japan.
PSP Americas PSP Japan DS Americas DS Japan
2004 n/a 0.47m 1.46m 1.39m
2005 4.07m 2.22m 2.93m 4.23m
2006 3.43m 1.86m 5.73m 8.40m
2007 4.17m 3.06m 9.93m 7.21m
2008 4.52m 3.80m 11.68m 4.26m
2009 2.98m 2.28m 12.11m 4.00m
2010 2.27m 2.90m 9.94m 2.88m
Essentially, we've gone from 2004, when DS beat PSP 3:1 in Japan to 2010 where DS has only a 2:1 lifetime edge in the country, and where sales were 1:1 for the year, slightly in favor of PSP. In the Americas, PSP went from beating DS 7:5 in 2005, to 2009-2010, where DS has beaten PSP by over 4:1 each year, with lifetime DS sales at 5:2 in favor DS. Essentially, launch year trends have reversed in both territories by huge amounts - Japan over the lifetime of the two devices has moved 50% in favor of PSP (DS is ahead 2:1, not 3:1 as 2004 figures suggested, or 9:2 as 2006 figures suggested), while the Americas has moved in favor of DS by a much larger volume - 3.5x fold or so from 2005 figures to lifetime sales. EMEAA in contrast, has favored DS over PSP each year, and has thus been far more stable than the other regions.
Still, its important to think about the Japanese shift, as 3DS and PSP2 will likely be designed around the gradual erosion of the early, but absolute DS dominance (9:2 over PSP in 2006) in Japan that has since dropped to 1:1.
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@ Lord_Yggdrassil
PSP sold 21.4 mil in Americas and 27.5 mil in EMEAA. Las gen, the Gamecube and Xbox sold around those numbers WW. How is that a flop again? Just because the DS has sold more, does not make the PSP a flop.
makingmusic476. i don't think Sony's learned anything as far as bringing console IP's to handhelds , but i imagine Sony will market psp2 better, but as far giving psp2 its own identity! well an uncharted game is coming out for it o so lesson learned is batting 1000 with Sony striking out ninty% this gen. boy i hated doing that, but i call it like i see it.
makingmusic476. i don't think Sony's learned anything as far as bringing console IP's to handhelds , but i imagine Sony will market psp2 better, but as far giving psp2 its own identity! well an uncharted game is coming out for it o so lesson learned is batting 1000 with Sony striking out ninty% this gen. boy i hated doing that, but i call it like i see it.
I need to spin this...
ummm...
Japan isn't a major market anymore. There we go.
Go DS. :P
Lord, PSP have tons of software support in Japan. Its not only selling because of monster hunter.
Sony really screwed up the momentum they had going in the West early on. They had the hardware sales, but they backed it up with weak software support. Nintendo stole their thunder with unique and interesting titles like Nintendogs and Prof. Layton, while Sony relied almost entirely on crappy versions of console games like God of War and Resistance. It didn't work, and hopefully it'll have taught them a lesson for PSP2. Though given how SCEA/SCEE still support the PSP to this day, it seems they haven't realized what they're doing wrong.
This news is ridiculous.... especially if you disregard the 2005 US market as you do.
In Japan......PSP is a big fat FLOP everywhere else. Capcom could easily put MH on 3DS and PSP would be scrweed..Monster hunter is the ONLY reason people even bother with PSP in Japan.
I can't believe people here are acting like PSP like all its games are shitty compared to DS. Let's face it. Piracy killed PSP. Ofcourse no one remembers it here cause they're blinded by DS sales...
Mysterious country! Not even Japan groks Japan anymore! :-O :-# :-P
@UnknownFact
unlikely, as the drop in DS has been due to anticipation of the 3DS, and yet the PSP barely eked out a victory, and only in Japan
PSP2 is unlikely to topple the 3DS
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DS is having it's successor in two months...but congratulations to the PSP's 1st victory over the end of the DS's generation =)
the psp is awesome.
Well duh!! Everyone and their dogs already have a DS!! So of COURSE the sales are going to slow down!! Who cares if the PSP sold more in 2010, overall they are still millions away from total sales!
Good, I saw this coming.
I really hope PSP2 beats 3DS... just to make things interesting.
LMAO!!!! not bad for a dead handheld.
really i would think its impressive but this is only due to market saturation of the ds in Japan. PSP did not pull stunning Japanese numbers this year. It sold nearly 1mil more in 2008. I really don't think this trend will stay with the 3ds and psp2 release when there is 0 market saturation for both systems.
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Why is the title misleading? It cleraly says for a year, and like it or not its a fact.
Congrats PSP, its a small victory, but its a victory never the less ;-)
Just shows that Nintendo needs to do whatever they can to get Capcom to make Monster Hunter for 3DS
Good.
Going out with a bang...
Good for psp
The DS has sold to over 1/4 of the population of Japan. I'm surprised it still has such strong sales as it should have reached the saturation point by now and it has it's successor releasing shortly.
"Very miss leading title. " --------- VEEEERy misleading.
Should be: [On 2010 the PSP, for the 1st time, sold more units on a year than DS in Japan.]
But since Jacob usually don't do this kind of mess, I can't just bother with that. =P
Very confusing piece of news, almost disguishes the reality. Vgchartz is Sony paying you lately or something like that?
Very miss leading title.
PSP out sells DS in Japan for 2010. Direct to the point, and no exaggerations! The above title makes it seems like the PSP is not oh 16 million systems behind in Japan!
PSP is a good handheld console, but thanks to hackers Sony stopped carrying about the PSP owners here in America unlike Japan, where most people actually buy the games
awesome for the flopped and soo called failed system!
gongratz sony
Interesting but not worrying.
Very interesting piece of news.
