July U.S. hardware sales: PSP in fifth place

by Chris Powell @ on Aug 14th 2006 9:01AM

The past month hasn't been too kind to the PSP, especially in Japan, but now that July's US hardware sales numbers have poured in, we can see assess the damage. The Gameboy Advance outsold the PSP by 2,000 units. Yeesh.

While the PSP sold less than half of the Nintendo DS, it sure beat the hell outta the Xbox and Gamecube, right? Here's all the numbers:

DS: 377,000
PS2: 241,000
360: 206,000
GBA: 163,000
PSP: 161,000
GCN: 44,000
Xbox: 12,000

I won't even bother you with the top 25 software sales, but I will tell you no PSP game broke into that exclusive group, while New Super Mario Bros. took the third spot. The DS and GBA had three other games in the top 25, as well.

While things aren't looking too good for the PSP right now, I believe things will begin to pick up once the next round of games start hitting the handheld. There are so many great games on the horizon, that I think the PSP will begin to rival the DS again.

[Via 1up]