{"id":1793,"date":"2009-10-20T07:03:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T11:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/20\/inside-the-numbers-game-%e2%80%93-psp-platform\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:56:32","slug":"inside-the-numbers-game-%e2%80%93-psp-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/20\/inside-the-numbers-game-%e2%80%93-psp-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the numbers game \u2013 PSP Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just how well, or maybe I should say how poorly, is the PSPgo doing out of the gate?  This just in from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2009\/10\/welcome-to-the-playstation-nation\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2009\/10\/welcome-to-the-playstation-nation\/', 'Official PlayStation Blog');\" target=\"new\">Official PlayStation Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The PSPgo is driving additional momentum for the entire PSP platform. In its first three days on store shelves, top retail partners experienced a 300 percent lift in overall PSP hardware sales compared to the previous week. During this time, the PlayStation Network also experienced the largest number of downloads ever for a single week period. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talking about spinning the numbers!  This looks worse than a President Obama backer backpedaling on Fox after a fact check.  When you talk about the PSP platform getting a spike in sales, you are really saying that everyone realized that the PSP-3000 was a much better deal than the PSPgo.  I am sure that will be revealed when the <em>real<\/em> numbers are released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how well, or maybe I should say how poorly, is the PSPgo doing out of the gate? This just in from the Official PlayStation Blog: The PSPgo is driving additional momentum for the entire PSP platform. In its first three days on store shelves, top retail partners experienced a 300 percent lift in overall &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/20\/inside-the-numbers-game-%e2%80%93-psp-platform\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inside the numbers game \u2013 PSP Platform<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-psp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}