The PSP 3000 went on sale in Japan mere days ago, the 16th of October, to be precise, and it seems that the locals like it.

Released in Japan on October 16th, the new PSP-3000 has reached a sales figure of 141,270 units in its first four days. Impressive! Also impressive, the combined sales figures of the PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 for the October 13th-October 19th period tallied 155,720 units. (Compare that to the 19873 PSPs sold the previous week and the 24131 sold the week before that.) To date, 10,357,481 PSPs have been sold in Japan. -- Kotaku, courtesy of Famitsu

Hey, maybe Sony has a shot at beating Nintendo after all. Okay, maybe not.