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PSP's Daxter sells 2 million copies in 2 years

by Alexander Sliwinski on Feb 4th 2008 4:25PM

Developer Ready at Dawn, currently preparing God of War: Chains of Olympus for March 4 release, announced its freshman effort Daxter has sold over two million copies worldwide. Sure, two million sold for a game which released in 2006 isn't an insane sprint in terms of sales, but it's a marathon victory. The game certainly benefited from being bundled with new PSPs last year, but the developer says Daxter saw its best sales in nearly two years during December '07.

Ready at Dawn notes that it can only look forward to GoW: Chains of Olympus doing better than its first project. Considering our experiences with Kratos' handheld adventure so far, there's not too much Ready at Dawn needs to worry about.

[Via PSP Fanboy]

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Tags: daxter, jak-and-daxter, jakanddaxter, PSP, ready-at-dawn, readyatdawn

Reader Comments (27)

That's cool, one of the handful of games I finished when I owned a PSP - definitely a quality game and a must-play for PSP owners.

But PSP games don't sell! Everyone knows this!

*goes back to DJ Max Portable 2*

Two years, a bundles game, and $20 retail price = 2 millions.

New Super Mario: Less than two years, not bundled, full price at retail: 13 millions.

Jesus christ, what don't you go play in a fire?

@Fernando

Seriously dude, put a sock in it. I think you need a nice long break (I'm pretty sure people know what it means by now).

actually Fernando, New Super Mario Bros DOES come bundled...

@Fernando

Please stop. No shit Mario sold faster. It's fucking Mario. But this is still a good thing for sony and the psp.

Fernando, I don't hate you.

But that was as unnecessary as comparing penis size.

Goddamn fernando, of course a legendary mascot thats been around for thirty years is gong to outsell a SPINOFF game based on a SIDEKICK thats only been around for just over FIVE YEARS. Maldito idiota.

Damn, I thought Fernando was banned!?

Chains of Olympus will probably wind up being PSP's flagship title, when we look back on the console in, say, 10 years or so

A game that proved what the handheld could do

But I wasn't aware Ready at Dawn was working on this, definitely another giant feather in their luxurious, Okami-porting cap.

Well there is also Patapon and Crisis Core...and a couple more.

Wow, is it really that old? I thought it was newer than that...

Well, good job, Ready At Dawn!

You know, I bought the Daxter pack as soon as it became available. I haven't even put Daxter in the system. I figured the game would be kind of lost on me since I haven't played any of the other titles.

ur missing out man. you should play that bad boy. ive played the other games from the series and it follows a different storyline. its set in the same city as the one from the second game but its a different story entirely. it shouldnt matter that you havent played the other ones.

Yeah, all it really does is explain why it took Daxter two years to rescue Jak... supposedly. Which is odd considering the events of the game is likely 4-5 weeks at most...

There are still a ton of games I want to get for my PSP, Daxter being one of them. Doesn't surprise me that the game did so well this past December, considering that those Daxter bundles were impossible to find anywhere.

dear god, why is every other sentence (and title) seem like it's trying to downplay what the game did. it sold 2 million copies which is a great feat for any game. not every game is Halo, Madden, and GTA. barring those juggernauts, 2 million copies sold is dammed good.

Sadly when you have something like Halo. Every other game is automatically compared to it.

Isn't it easy to sell that many copies when you bundle it with your new hardware?

Only if your new hardware sells.

Hardware sales are not the PSP's problem.

And yeah, I bought a Daxter pack, and I've given it only cursory play.

Great game, great system.

I got the Daxter Slim PSP when it came out. I didn't find Daxter to be that fun of a game. It wasn't bad, but the game suffers heavily from being a "collection" game. All you do is kill bugs to collect their gold medals, and you also collect red eggs to unlock dream sequences. The dream sequences and the final boss were cool, in fact I'd say the dream sequences and their movie references were the highlight of the game, but collecting things got very old. It wasn't inventive enough to pull it off like Mario games are, plus you'll be collecting a lot more bugs than stars.

You know guys, I might be in the minority but I didn't think Daxter was that great. And I'm no Sony OR PSP hater, just look at my comment history. I thought the story was lame (you're an exterminator? really?) and the gameplay was decent but nothing groundbreaking. I would have loved more weapons. The graphics were beautiful but that is expected from the PSP.

All in all, I thin R&C:SM is a way better game. Though I am salivating at the thought of the badass Kratos in the palm of my hand so props to Ready At Dawn.

2 Million or not, PSP's Daxter sucked hard.

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