Watch the video hereSony's PlayStation 3 reaches the 2 million sales mark in Japan, a year and a half after its release in the region...
The PlayStation 3 has sold 2 million units in Japan and, meanwhile, Sony's PSP sits atop the Japanese console charts for the week ending April 6th - it's been a bumper week for the Japanese electronics giant.
This is according to figures from Japanese market research firm Media Create (via gi.biz). However, it's taken the PS3 a year and a half to reach this milestone, a point illustrated by the console's weak 11,303 unit sales last week (only 900 more than the PS2).
The PSP, on the other hand, topped the list of Japanese console sales by shifting an impressive 120,964 units between March 31st and April 6th. This doubled the sales of its closest rival, Nintendo's DS, which achieved 55,190 unit sales.
The PSP's sales were boosted by the release of Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (also offered in a PSP bundle). Having played the game's predecessor, we really can't understand why, so we'll just have to file it under 'anomalous Japanese game successes' (right next to Dynasty Warriors).
Nevertheless, the game has sold an impressive 1.5 million copies in its first two weeks of sales, selling half a million of these last week.
Source: TGV