PSP = most successful UK hardware launch ever, 2x+ DS.

Impressive since it's so expensive too. I need one badly but I'm not about to fork out 439$ for a black one with Lumines, yet.

Where did that quoted article come from? It looks like it could have come from Sony's underground lair.

Socialist countries prefer the PSP, while capitalist ones prefer the DS. You're on france's side, Andy, so STFU.

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Socialist countries prefer the PSP, while capitalist ones prefer the DS. You're on france's side, Andy, so STFU.

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Haha. :)

And the US is a capitalist country, last I checked (for better or worse), and the PSP has been murdering the DS in every sales chart since it's release, so hey. :p

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I'm sure there was a similar thread for the DS when it launched, there's a thread about how many copies Nintendogs sold, and I'm sure you could put half of the threads on TNL into another thread. Who cares? It's just another thread.

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Come on dude, like you're suddenly a passionate follower of UK hardware sales? 185 000 units for a launch is barely news. Enough with the pro-Sony flamebait threads. It's getting into Spo Daddy territory.

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Come on dude, like you're suddenly a passionate follower of UK hardware sales?

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You obviously don't know Andy very well.

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Come on dude, like you're suddenly a passionate follower of UK hardware sales? 185 000 units for a launch is barely news.

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Come on dude, have you no foresight? What does the country of origin have to do with this being significant news (in the videogame world, obviously)? Europe could decide which system becomes the market leader world wide, and more importantly which gets the lion's share of software support, as I'm sure you know the very similar situation between the Xbox and GameCube. And unlike the Xbox, the PSP isn't an abortion in Japan either.

And yes, I am very passionate about UK hardware sales. I am a regular UK hardware sales connoisseur.

I don't really think you can read much into UK sales anyway.
Those brits are a baffling lot.
We're talking about a country that was buying SMS and C64 games well into the 32-bit era, afterall.

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Come on dude, have you no foresight? What does the country of origin have to do with this being significant news (in the videogame world, obviously)? Europe could decide which system becomes the market leader world wide, and more importantly which gets the lion's share of software support, as I'm sure you know the very similar situation between the Xbox and GameCube. And unlike the Xbox, the PSP isn't an abortion in Japan either.

And yes, I am very passionate about UK hardware sales. I am a regular UK hardware sales connoisseur.

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The point is that you make a lot of these thinly veiled anti-DS pro-PSP threads and it's becoming a nuisance where it was just kind of funny.

And hardware sales isn't what pushes development for a system, it's software sales. A large user installment is nice, but they're not leaps ahead of Nintendo (not yet, and probably won't be if they take the lead) enough to get true bragging rights. Not to mention Nintendo already has a new Gameboy in the oven. I don't mind the PSP selling well, infact I hope it does, but we have a PSP thread. We didn't need a Nintendogs thread either, but atleast it's not the same person making all of those threads.

I see a lot of crying in this thread.

It definitely will be interesting to see how PSP fairs in Europe. Right now, DS sales worldwide are considerably higher than PSP, but it's been impossible to guess how much of that had to do with the lack of launch in one region. Now we'll know.