NDP11月软件销量,PSP创造历史新高!

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The NPD Group on Thursday released November videogame software and hardware sales figures and just about every system saw a massive surge in units purchased. Consumers gobbled up more than a 1.2 million Wii consoles, 820,000 Xbox 360s, 710,000 PlayStation 3s and a whopping 1.7 million DS handhelds during the busy month. Unfortunately for Sony, shoppers were not similarly inspired to invest in more PSPs, even with the publisher's new Go on the market. Only 293,000 PSPs in total were taken home in November, according to NPD.

An analysis of PSP (and the more recent Go) throughout the year provides a clearer picture of the uphill battle that faces Sony as it struggles to carve out a place for its handheld in a sector dominated by Nintendo.

Consider these revealing and disheartening facts. Since January, PSP has remained the worst-selling current-generation system every month except one. (In July, Sony's handheld outsold the then-languishing PS3 by a thousand units; enough to earn it the second-to-worst-selling platform for the month.) The discrepancy between PSP and PlayStation 2 sales -- and bear in mind, the latter console debuted in America nine years ago -- has stayed less than 50,000 units nearly every month this year. Indeed, the gap separating the two narrowed to only 10,000 units for several months and in April PS2 actually outsold Sony's portable.

Sony's sold 1.8 million PSPs in the region through November, according to NPD figures. Re-read the first paragraph in this story: Nintendo sold 1.7 million DS handheld in November alone. Youch. By comparison, the Big N has amassed sales of 7.8 million DSs on the year stateside -- and the margin is widening, not narrowing.

While pundits have proven critical of Sony's hardware reboot in PSP Go (IGN's Gear channel scored the system a 7.2 out of 10), which launched a few months ago, sluggish hardware sales can also be tied to a lackluster lineup. Take, for example, the best-selling PSP game in November. It wasn't in the Top 10. It wasn't in the Top 100. LittleBigPlanet nabbed number 107 on the overall best-sellers list with a paltry 42,000 in sales.

http://psp.ign.com/articles/105/1054350p1.html

IGN 表示北美PSP 11月份软件销量最好的是SCE自家的小小大星球PSP版

排名为107位，銷量为42000.