Sony have announced that they have just sold over one million PSP Slims in Japan, beating the original PSP reaching this milestone by over two weeks, and well before the peak of the Christmas sales period.

Of course, you can look at it as being typical PR spin by a media hungry giant wanting to enthuse gamers to get on the Playstation Portable bandwagon before the Christmas holiday season kicks in, but its good news nonetheless, whichever way you look at it.

The thing that surprises me is that there is greater demand for the PSP just because it now has ’slim’ in its title. Its not like the PSP-2000 has lost that much weight, or become that much smaller.

For comparison sake, the PS3 took 8 months to move 1 million units.

Does this mean the PSP is preferable to the PS3 in the eyes of the Japanese gamers, if it reached the one million milestone 6 months quicker than the PS3? Possibly, or it could just be the nature of the device, and its (relative) price point. The PS3 requires a higher financial commitment from the buyer, and many may be put off by the fact that you really need a high-def tv to make the most of it (although I expect Japan has better infiltration of high-def tv’s than anywhere else).

Via: EnGadget