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Posted October 17, 2012 by Justin Alderman in News
 
 

Weekly Japanese Vita Sales Hit A New All-Time Low

vita sales in toilet
vita sales in toilet

Video game sales tracker Media Create has released their results for the week ending October 14th in Japan, revealing that PlayStation Vita sales have dropped to a new all-time low.

Sony’s handheld sold just 6,134 units in Japan during the week (down from 7,957 units in the prior week), sliding just under the Vita‘s previous low point of 6,340 units during the week ending May 13, 2012. Further compounding Sony’s Vita troubles is the fact that PSP sales fell by just over 2,000 units last week, but still managed outsell the new handheld more than 2:1.

The 3DS once again topped the Japanese sales charts last week, pulling in an additional 79.3K in sales (up from 63.6K in the prior week). Nintendo’s handheld also dominated the software charts with 9 titles in the top 20 software chart, including the best-selling title Bravely Default: Flying Fairy which sold 141.5K copies during its debut.

The full Japanese hardware and software sales charts for the week ending October 14, 2012 are as follows:

Hardware

|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     LTD     |
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|  3DS  |     79.300 |     63.669 |     55.025 |   7.686.678 |
|  PS3  |     26.312 |     42.218 |     28.596 |   8.517.184 |
|  PSP  |     15.585 |     17.769 |     25.271 |  19.367.478 |
|  PSV  |      6.134 |      7.957 |            |   1.008.253 |
|  Wii  |      4.476 |      4.849 |     12.161 |  12.575.339 |
|  360  |      2.400 |      4.894 |      1.887 |   1.594.080 |
|  PS2  |        911 |        894 |      1.280 |  21.821.301 |
|  NDS  |        537 |        674 |      4.791 |  32.871.821 |

Software

01./00. [3DS] Bravely Default: Flying Fairy (Square Enix) {2012.10.11} (¥6.090) – 141.529 / NEW
02./01. [PS3] Resident Evil 6 (Capcom) {2012.10.04} (¥7.990) – 92.921 / 727.854 (-85%)
03./00. [3DS] Project X Zone (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.10.11} (¥6.280) – 85.539 / NEW
04./02. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 (Konami) {2012.10.04} (¥7.980) – 50.144 / 274.028 (-78%)
05./00. [PS3] Tokitowa: Time and Eternity # (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.10.11} (¥7.980) – 32.215 / NEW
06./07. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) – 29.651 / 1.246.707 (-1%)
07./06. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters (Nintendo) {2012.09.27} (¥4.800) – 22.195 / 122.391 (-35%)
08./11. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) – 18.458 / 190.370 (+62%)
09./00. [PS3] Rocksmith (Ubisoft) {2012.10.11} (¥8.880) – 13.964 / NEW
10./00. [PSP] Diabolik Lovers # (Idea Factory) {2012.10.11} (¥6.090) – 13.173 / NEW
11./08. [PSP] SD Gundam G Generation: Overworld (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.09.27} (¥6.280) – 10.788 / 249.333 (-62%)
12./04. [PSP] Sol Trigger (Image Epoch) {2012.10.04} (¥6.279) – 10.197 / 52.234 (-76%)
13./10. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 (Pokemon Co.) {2012.06.23} (¥4.800) – 10.100 / 2.799.467 (-17%)
14./00. [PS3] Dishonored (Bethesda Softworks) {2012.10.11} (¥5.980) – 9.984 / NEW
15./03. [PSP] Summon Night 3 (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.10.04} (¥3.990) – 8.823 / 60.276 (-83%)
16./12. [3DS] Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone (Nintendo) {2012.09.13} (¥3.800) – 7.255 / 86.014 (-30%)
17./15. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.12} (¥5.040) – 6.410 / 235.676 (-7%)
18./14. [PSP] Final Fantasy III (Square Enix) {2012.09.20} (¥3.990) – 5.048 / 74.118 (-33%)
19./19. [3DS] Brain Age: Concentration Training (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥3.800) – 4.639 / 178.791 (-13%)
20./22. [3DS] Kobitodzukan: Kobito Kansatsu Set (Nippon Columbia) {2012.07.26} (¥5.040) – 4.536 / 110.398

Source: NeoGAF


Justin Alderman

 
A gamer since the Intellivision days in the early 80′s, who started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.