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Sony's PSP breaks sales records
The gadget went on sale in Europe on 1 September, nine months after hit Japanese stores and six months after the US.
Sony expects a million PSPs to be sold in the UK before Christmas.
Shops across the country opened their doors at midnight last week to deal with the demand from gamers, with many reporting that they had sold out. Chart-Track also reported that nine of the 24 PSP games which were available at launch entered the Top 10 official UK games chart this week.
Topping the chart was Ridge Racer, with one in five people buying the game along with the PSP device.
Thumb competition
In the important run-up period to Christmas, the PSP is up against the giant of the handheld gaming arena, Nintendo, which dominates the portable gaming market.
In November, Nintendo releases a new, smaller version of its popular GameBoy device, called the Micro.
But the PSP is widely touted as a device to appeal to a wider range of people, because it can do more than play games.
Thirty films were available for the device at its European launch, and more titles are on the way. Sony has developed its own discs for films, called UMD.
But Sony has warned PSP owners about a known issue which came to light in the days following the PSP's March launch in the US.
Many gamers returned their devices after the LCD screens appeared to be missing pixels. Sony said in accompanying literature to the device that the "stuck pixel" problem is characteristic of LCD technology.
Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4218320.stm
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