Japanese Vita Sales Approaching Near Death Levels

Japanese Vita sales fell by almost 1,000 units last week, bringing weekly sales totals to yet another new all-time low of 4,842 units. This puts Sony’s new handheld even further behind the PSP, which fell from 14.5K to 13.8K units last week, and dangerously close to the same level of sales that Nintendo is hitting with the Wii during the last few weeks of its life.

Further highlighting the Vita‘s dire situation is that this drop in sales was not the result of a overall market decline and was in fact basically isolated to Sony’s handheld systems. The PS3, Wii, and PS2 all managed to increase week-over-week sales, and Nintendo’s 3DS retained its market-leader status with weekly sales jumping up by over 30K to 93.9K total units.

Vita software also disappeared from the top 20 sales chart last week. Sony’s PS3 claimed the lion’s share with 8 titles (including Tales of Xillia 2 debuting as the best-selling game), followed by the 3DS with 7 titles, the PSP with 3, and the DS and Wii with 1 each.

The full Japanese hardware and software sales charts for the week ending November 04, 2012 are as follows:

Hardware

|System| This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |     LTD     |
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|  3DS |     93.989 |     61.542 |    145.271 |  3.620.298 |   7.902.441 |
|  PS3 |     21.310 |     20.364 |     26.966 |    943.827 |   8.580.212 |
|  PSP |     13.868 |     14.541 |     27.952 |    682.078 |  19.411.462 |
|  PSV |      4.842 |      5.806 |            |    585.706 |   1.025.692 |
|  Wii |      3.806 |      3.744 |     11.725 |    423.703 |  12.586.924 |
|  PS2 |      1.351 |      1.006 |      1.457 |     50.632 |  21.824.739 |
|  360 |      1.339 |      1.931 |      1.699 |     63.455 |   1.599.500 |
|  NDS |        568 |        441 |      3.131 |     64.873 |  32.873.359 |

Software

01./00. [PS3] Tales of Xillia 2 (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.01} (¥8.380) – 364.439 / NEW
02./00. [PS3] Okami HD (Capcom) {2012.11.01} (¥3.990) – 68.644 / NEW
03./00. [PS3] Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition (Sega) {2012.11.01} (¥5.229) – 58.138 / NEW
04./00. [PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 (Konami) {2012.11.01} (¥3.980) – 38.388 / NEW
05./08. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) – 24.696 / 1.320.330 (+3%)
06./06. [3DS] Bravely Default: Flying Fairy (Square Enix) {2012.10.11} (¥6.090) – 20.454 / 234.413 (-34%)
07./01. [PSP] The Idolmaster: Shiny Festa – Honey Sound / Funky Note / Groovy Tune (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.10.25} (¥5.980) – 14.435 / 133.567 (-88%)
08./09. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 (Konami) {2012.10.04} (¥7.980) – 13.828 / 338.986 (-26%)
09./07. [PS3] Resident Evil 6 (Capcom) {2012.10.04} (¥7.990) – 13.688 / 808.039 (-44%)
10./02. [PS3] Dark Souls with Artorias of the Abyss Edition (From Software) {2012.10.25} (¥4.800) – 13.163 / 80.165 (-80%)
11./00. [3DS] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 (Konami) {2012.11.01} (¥4.980) – 11.365 / NEW
12./00. [PS3] NBA 2K13 (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2012.11.01} (¥6.090) – 9.773 / NEW
13./13. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters (Nintendo) {2012.09.27} (¥4.800) – 9.699 / 157.818 (-15%)
14./04. [3DS] AKB48+Me (Kadokawa Games) {2012.10.25} (¥5.670) – 9.492 / 50.034 (-77%)
15./05. [PS3] Borderlands 2 (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2012.10.25} (¥7.140) – 8.931 / 44.999 (-75%)
16./11. [PSP] Little Battlers eXperience W (Level 5) {2012.10.18} (¥4.980) – 8.422 / 102.388 (-49%)
17./00. [WII] Winning Eleven Play Maker 2013 (Konami) {2012.11.01} (¥4.980) – 8.148 / NEW
18./00. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate # (Capcom) {2011.12.10} (¥5.800) – 7.875 / 1.559.092
19./14. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) – 7.670 / 221.436 (-24%)
20./16. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 (Pokemon Co.) {2012.06.23} (¥4.800) – 7.166 / 2.822.416 (-3%)

Source: NeoGAF