February's NPD figures were released last night, and it looks like Sony's handheld has done respectably well. PS sold through 243,115 PSP hardware units in February. Sony reminds us that this represents a "year-over-year increase of 38%."

Note from Kspraydad: This is a bit of 'speculation' on my part...based on the FCC ID it certainly seems that this is PSP and not PS3 related. Question for developer types...is it normal to have a new devkit this late in the game or is this a possible PSP2 thing?

It appears as though the PSP is actually doing well enough to exceed Sony's own expectations. Instead of the estimated 15 million units, it appears they'll sell closer to 16 million.

New PSP, new problems. The recently released PSP-3000 does get rid of the PSP-2000's ghosting issues, but has issues all its own: On the official PlayStation forums, PSP-3000 owners are bringing word that the new PlayStation Portable suffers from scanlines and icky interlacing defects during video playback and gaming. One forum member writes, "I am not happy about my 'upgrade'." In an official statement, Sony says this is no accident.

After a strong start and a decent 2007, the PSP has lost its luster with third party developers, Edge Magazine has found, and is quietly being abandoned in favor of more lucrative projects. The details of their findings were presented in a four-page analysis of the PSP's software and hardware sales for the past three years, beginning with the release of the first PSP iteration in 2005