Ten million PSPs sold in Japan, Monster Hunter rocks

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008


In a bit of surprising news, it seems the PSP is actually thriving over in Nippon. Everyone thinks of Japan as a Nintendo stronghold, especially when it comes to handhelds, but the truth is that the PSP is doing pretty well; selling 10 million is no joke. I wonder how many are Stella Artois units.

And why haven’t I played Monster Hunter?! That game looks like it kicks ass — I’m not surprised it’s there three times in the top five sellers on PSP. You run around 10 huge worlds wearing one of 1500 types of armor, wielding one of 400 weapons, and kill giant monsters. Did no one think to tell me about this? Did you think I wouldn’t find out? Shame on you, the world.

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