November 1 marked the launch date of Sony's PSP Go in Japan. How well did the new, UMD-less handheld fare in the land of the rising sun? Not too well, as Enterbrain reports.

 

The Famitsu parent company released figures earlier today for the first-day sales of PSP Go. According to said report, the PSP Go sold 28,275 units on launch date, with retail and download titles like Persona 3 Portable and Dissidia Final Fantasy Universal Tuning, as well as Disgaea Infinite and LocoRoco Midnight Carnival debuting alongside it.

It cannot be helped to compare how the other "re-modeled" handhelds fared in the sales section. When the DSi launched in November 2008, in two days alone, it had already moved 170,000 units. In fact, the refurbished DS handheld consistently dominates the hardware sales charts for Japan. The PSP-3000 meanwhile, for all the criticism that it met, sold somewhere above 140,000 in its first four days on top of retail store shelves.

The PSP Go has been met with much excitement, albeit the wary kind, in the West, and has been proclaimed as an overpriced disappointment by some upon its launch.

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