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Steady as She Goes: Vita Sales Inch Upward, Fail to Crack Half-Million Mark

By Brian P Rubin | 12 January 2012 | 6 Comments   

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The other day, we posted on Sony’s holiday sales report, which boasted that the PlayStation Vita console had broken half-a-million units sold. Well, it turns out that figure was a tad premature.

According to a post on Gamasutra, the PlayStaiton Vita’s fourth week did, indeed, see its sales fortunes rise from its third week’s numbers of 42,648. But instead of going up to around 65,000 in week four—which would’ve put the Vita’s life-to-date sales at 500,000 as Sony had claimed—it went up to 42,914. As the post points out, that puts Vita’s total sales in Asia so far at 482,901.

You can’t really blame Sony for rounding up, though. I mean, 482,901 is PRACTICALLY half a million! Nearly almostly!

Meanwhile, the Nintendo 3DS continues to stay at the top of the portable gaming heap. The Gamasutra post reports that the 3DS sold 240,819 in the aforementioned week ending January 8, putting its lifetime sales at 4.5 million.

All the while, the Vita is still set to launch in the US on February 22…

Via Gamasutra

6 Comments

  1. Posted by Ademir on 12 January 12 at 2:18pm

    Poor Vita. I feel sorry for its ugly naming.

  2. Posted by dee on 12 January 12 at 2:53pm

    Its cool that all these companies are coming out with new systems and all, but i would prefer if they came out with better games. Nowadays its just the same old stuff recycled.

  3. Posted by Incah on 12 January 12 at 6:10pm

    you do realize it is also being sold in China. also that the announcement was world wide not just japan.

    talk about not researching your story’s.

  4. Posted by Mugenite on 13 January 12 at 6:17am

    There’s a reason these things are doing so poorly. We have the overly priced iphones and their dirt cheap games to thank…

  5. Posted by madmad90 on 13 January 12 at 7:06am

    Its not sold it china and only in Japan, so it was researched correctly.

  6. Posted by LoneWolf on 13 January 12 at 7:09am

    I will never understand why Nintendo get away with selling slightly updated models year after year with slightly updated games year after year. Who wants to own five or six revisions and pay massive prices for them? Sure, some games are compatible with different revisions but even then you’re just buying an update of an earlier generations game. Sony made a mistake with the PSP Go but the PSP itself was, and still is, a powerful handheld gaming platform. They’ve improved on it with the Vita and yet still the crowds (sheep..) flock to Nintendo and their new* shiny.

    *I don’t count much Nintendo do as new. Look at the DS. DS, DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL…….. all basically the same thing with small revisions. They may try to innovate with their consoles but their handhelds are stuck permanently in cashcow city.

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