NPD figures reveal: PSP sales up 9%

Perhaps PSP was too advanced for its time. PSP has seen a sales resurgence as of late thanks to a myriad of factors: a more affordable price, better library of games, and redesigned slimmer hardware. Not only is the system dominating in Japan, it's doing very well in America as well.

Compare January 2008 and January 2007. PSP sold 230k units in North America — that's a 9% increase over last year. According to a Sony release, "with its new partnership with Skype™ and great upcoming new games, such as God of War: Chains of Olympus, Patapon and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, further sales growth is expected in 2008." We'd have to agree with that prediction.

With such a fantastic first month, it looks as though 2008 is going to be the best year for PSP yet.