New figures have revealed that the PSP is continuing to outsell its rival handheld console, the Nintendo DS, in Japan. The PlayStation Portable has outsold Nintendo’s DS in Japan for the second week running, as sales of the portable gaming system continue to climb on a weekly basis.

The PSP sold 75,912 units for the week ended February 10, beating out the DS for a second week, which sold 60,464 in the same period.

Elsewhere, hardware sales for remaining consoles declined from the previous week, with the PlayStation 3 selling 23,985 units, down from almost 42,000 the week before.

Despite this, the next-generation console continued to outsell its main rival, the Xbox 360, by a pretty substantial margin, as did the PlayStation 2, which totalled just over 11,000 units.

A senior development source has claimed that although there are rumours suggesting that Apple is set to launch a games device, the industry should not expect the company to make a move just yet.

The Industry Standard posted an interesting article recently discussing the possibility of Apple releasing a mobile gaming platform. According to the writer, the circumstantial evidence points to Apple trying its luck with gaming once again. And while I think the company may want to do just that, it should attempt to make its way into the console market,” Don Reisinger writes for CNET.

A mock-up of a possible next-generation PSP has been unveiled on the internet, attracting a great deal of interest from the gaming community.

Flickr user BluezPS has set the internets on fire today by posting renders of a concept PSP design, apparently of his or her own creation. iPhone-esque when closed, the design is both incredibly sexy and in keeping with Sony's general design aesthetics, so much so that if BluezPS isn't already on the Sony payroll, he certainly should be.

New software has been released to make Sony's PSP compatible with both Apple's iTunes program and Windows Media Center.

Sony has announced that popular quiz game Buzz! is set to be made available for the PSP later this year.

The exact release dates are unknown. Buzz! is a quiz franchise developed in Brighton, which recently made the news for being the subject of a lawsuit in the United States filed by the California-based quiz developer company Buzztime.