PSP has a good week

FOR THE FIRST TIME in, oooh, ages, Sony has actually managed to outdo Nintendo in hardware sales in its native Japan.

Last week, Sony managed to shift over 95,000 PSP consoles, compared to just 79,000 for the Nintendo DS. That's the first time in a long while that Sony's PSP has made any kind of sales movement, and it comes off the back of the release of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, the sequel to the most revered installment in the Final Fantasy saga.

However, Nintendo doesn't need to worry just yet - the PSP has still only sold in the region of six million units in the territory, compared to almost twenty million DS consoles.

Meanwhile, back in the UK, the PSP has also had a good week, with its weekly sales managing to quadruple - so, selling eight consoles then. According to MCV, the number is actually closer to 17,000, which is still fairly pitiful in the face of the DS' superiority. The spike here in Blighty is due to the release of the new, slim revision of the console.

So there is at least some light at the end of the tunnel for Sony. But not much. µ