The Sony PSP Go, the company's great hope of reviving its handheld gaming fortunes, appears to have fallen short of expectations after sales figures revealed a meagre 28,000 units were shifted in Japan on the first day.
The console, which ditches the unpopular UMD format for a 16GB hard-drive and downloadable games, hasn't performed nearly as well on home soil as the first two incarnations of the PSP. The original PlayStation portable sold 171,293 on day one in the land of the rising sun, with the PSP 2000 shifting a lofty 130,000 handheld beauties.
The good news for Sony is that the PSP Go performed 28-times better in Japan than it did in Australia, where it flogged, yes you guessed it, 1,000 consoles.
We don't have any UK (or US) figures yet, but we'd imagine the lofty price tag of £200 means it's unlikely to have performed any more triumphantly.
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