Sony scores well with PSP sales figures

When Sony released their PlayStation Portable March 24 and said come buy them, you did. Figures put forth by the consumer electronics giant revealed that first week sales of the handheld gaming system generated more than $150 million. Over 500,000 of their PSP Value Packs found their way into consumer's homes in the first two days alone.

"The launch of PSP was everything we hoped for, with extraordinary consumer demand driving sales of hardware units alone upwards of $150 million in first week sales, far and away above those generated by any other product in the space," said Kaz Hirai, president and chief executive officer, Sony Computer Entertainment America. "In only two weeks, PSP is having an immediate impact across the entire industry as consumers are clearly voting it the product of the year in 2005."