PSP Failing to Keep Up With DS
Nintendo's portable continues to surge ahead.
It is nearly two years into the face-off between the DS and the PSP and it's Nintendo that looks to be coming out victorious.
Sony spokesperson Satoshi Fukuoka said this week that shipments for the PSP in Japan have passed 5 million by the end of January, according to Bloomberg. This is way behind the 14.4 million DSs Nintendo shipped there by the end of 2006.
Nintendo is ruling outside Japan too. In January the company said it had sold 10 million DSs in both Europe and North America thanks in part to its non-traditional Touch! Generations line of games.
The bad news for Sony comes as rumours flare up again that it is preparing to counter Nintendo's surge with a redesign for the PSP.
Sony UK's Ray Maguire recently spoke of a future "smaller, lighter" version of the portable, according to GamesIndustry.biz, but the company's PR department tempered the comments by saying that Maguire was speaking generally.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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