Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP), which the electronics and entertainment company hopes can rescue it from financial doldrums, staged a record-breaking launch in the United Kingdom, shattering existing sales records as gamers scooped up the console and compatible games as soon as they became available. According to Chart-Track, which uses electronic data from point of sale systems to track sales, 185,000 PSP units were sold between Friday and Monday in the UK, netting some US$60 million in hardware sales alone for Sony.
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Sony’s PSP Opens to Record Sales in UK
Posted by: Keith Regan September 7, 2005 08:15 AMSony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP), which the electronics and entertainment company hopes can rescue it from financial doldrums, staged a record-breaking launch in the United Kingdom, shattering existing sales records as gamers scooped up the console and compatible games as soon as they became available. According to Chart-Track, which uses electronic data from point of sale systems to track sales, 185,000 PSP units were sold between Friday and Monday in the UK, netting some US$60 million in hardware sales alone for Sony.