wraggster
April 4th, 2005, 19:29
Following on from our previous news story reporting on PSP's lukewarm US arrival, the first indications of how much it actually managed to sell are in.
US industry analyst PJ McNealy of American Technology Research has concluded that in seven days on sale in the US PSP shifted between 475,000 and 575,000 machines.
While Sony has not released any official figures itself - which it no doubt would if all one million PSPs had been shifted - American Technology Research has reached these conclusions after conducting a survey using a 150-strong representative sample of retail outlets.
According to McNealy, the main retail stores such as Gamestop and Electronics Boutique are sold out of PSPs, but other stores not singularly associated with videogames such as Toys R Us and Circuit City - and specifically Wal-Mart and Target who received more stock than expected - still have supplies left.
Despite PSP not selling out, even with the massive hype surrounding the handheld, it's not a major blow for Sony considering Nintendo's significantly-lower-priced DS also achieved US first-week sales of around the 500,000 mark.
US industry analyst PJ McNealy of American Technology Research has concluded that in seven days on sale in the US PSP shifted between 475,000 and 575,000 machines.
While Sony has not released any official figures itself - which it no doubt would if all one million PSPs had been shifted - American Technology Research has reached these conclusions after conducting a survey using a 150-strong representative sample of retail outlets.
According to McNealy, the main retail stores such as Gamestop and Electronics Boutique are sold out of PSPs, but other stores not singularly associated with videogames such as Toys R Us and Circuit City - and specifically Wal-Mart and Target who received more stock than expected - still have supplies left.
Despite PSP not selling out, even with the massive hype surrounding the handheld, it's not a major blow for Sony considering Nintendo's significantly-lower-priced DS also achieved US first-week sales of around the 500,000 mark.