Sony sells 500,000 PSPs in first 48 hours
Sony says that they managed to sell half a million PlayStation Portables in the first 48 hours that the portable game console was on sale here in North America. They still haven't sold out the initial million consoles they said woul be available for the North American market, but it does sound like they may have done a little better than some analysts had initially thought. Last week P.J. McNealy estimated that Sony moved only 575,000 units in the PSP's first week—though it's entirely possibly that they sold 500,000 PSP Value Packs in those initial 48 hours and then only another 75,000 over the course of the next five days. It doesn't help that Sony has so far refused to release any sales figures beyond those first two days, only to say that "sales remained strong through the rest of the first week". Hey, if you've got nothing to hide…
[Thanks, jalepeno]
