Monster Hunter 2 PSP sells 500,000 day 1

[Chandoo]

this is probably some kind of a record or something, the psp needs more games like this. Bring on FFVII : Crisis core

Know: 50,000 games sold on day one is not a smash hit. 500,000 games sold is. Capcom's Monster Hunter Portable 2nd for the PSP did monster business on launch day, moving half a million copies according to early reports (which may overshoot or low-ball the sales figures). Quick inventory of recent portable games with first day sales of 300,000 plus:

• Dragon Quest Monsters Joker: 400,000 units
• Pokémon Diamond: 500,000 units
• Pokémon Pearl: 400,000 units
• Final Fantasy 3: 300,000 units

And all of those are DS games. And MH2nd isn't! Meaning that probably every single PSP owner in Japan has purchased this game (or eventually will). PSP dead in Japan? Not so thanks to Monster Hunter Portable 2nd. From what I've heard, this game is Capcom's biggest hit since Resident Evil 2! And if that's true, wow, just wow. Brian Ashcraft
Monster PSP Hit [Shinobi]

 

[Chandoo]

first PSP game to reach 1 million in Japan.

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd sells a million in Japan

Posted Mar 6th 2007 11:22AM by Jonti Davies
Filed under: Sony PSP, RPGs, Business
It's not unusual to see million-selling games on the DS (as Tom Jones would have crooned), but Monster Hunter Portable 2nd is the first PSP game to manage that feat inside Japan. The game got off to a great start last week and, according to a press release from Capcom, as of today one million units have been shipped to retail. Whether this is the start of something big in terms of a comeback for the PSP, or just a one-off success story, it still leaves Sony with an awful lot of work to do if it intends the PSP to ever catch up with the DS' phenomenal performance in Japan. Either way, it's great news for Capcom!

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