Famitsu PSP Slim & Lite Survey

Via PSP Hyper

PSP had a huge spike in sales recently, thanks to Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and PSP Slim & Lite, 600,000 units were sold since it’s launch last month, Famitsu threw some questions at the 68 gaming stores they have connection with to find out what gamers like about the new PSP. So here’s some interesting data.

Note: This survey appear on Oct 26th issue of the mag, which is the issue before last.


Most Sold Colors
17.4% | Piano Black
17.1% | Ice Silver
17.0% | Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Limited
15.4% | Ceramic White
14.9% | Felicia Blue
11.3% | Lavender Purple
06.9% | Rose Pink
% of PSP Software Sales
The % of PSP games in the total number of games sold for all system saw great increases as well, thanks mostly to Crisis Core and MGS PO+. Aug 27 - Sep 2 4.5%
Sep 3 - Sep 9 4.3%
Sep 10 - Sep 16 30.7%
Sep 17 - Sep 23 26.2%
Sep 24 - Sep 30 19.8%


September Top PSP Games
All new PSP games were quite well received during the month and MHP 2nd, released back in February, had a big spike in sales as well.

663,820 | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
129,873 | Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops +
64,530 | Fate/Tiger Colosseum
30,168 | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Tagforce 2
28,723 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd
Games that sold well with Slim & Lite
51 votes | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
22 votes | Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops +
17 votes | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd
7 votes | Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops
6 votes | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Did Slim & Lite Meet Expectation?
The sales are unexpected for most of the stores questioned, many of them observed that there were quite a number of “old” PSP owners buying the new model as well.

62.7% | Unexpected
35.1% | As expected
02.2% | Below expectation
Reasons For Buying?
Despite critics on it’s reception, the 1seg TV Tuner was the top reason people getting the new PSP.

17 votes | 1seg TV Tuner
14 votes | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
12 votes | Slimmer and lighter
10 votes | Previous owners changing their system
09 votes | TV output
1seg TV Tuner Sales
It seems that many store owners already knew that 1seg TV Tuner will be a hit among new PSP buyers.

46.2% | As expected
40.3% | Unexpected
13.5% | Below expectation
Will PSP strong sales continue?
The most recent sales numbers already said no to this, although at around 60,000 units, it is still much higher than usual sales pre-Slim & Lite. Here’s what the store owners’ predicted, with the main reason for “No” being the lack of big titles.

43.3% | No
35.4% | Not sure
21.3% | Yes
Finally, the magazine highlighted some of the comments made by the store owners, here’s a few interesting ones:

More games like Monster Hunter Portable 2nd needed
The new models attracted quite a number of female buyers as well
Hope there are games that will support the 1seg TV Tuner
How about some limited edition colors?
Add record function to the TV Tuner
Current colors are too similar to NDS, some PSP exclusive colors would be nice
Games for the holiday season are severely lacking
Third party games has been quite successful on the PSP, hope there will be more games from them