For comparison's sake I added the software sales from official Nintendo figures and I ended up with ~4.79 billion game.
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Unofficial: PlayStation software reaches 5 billion sold
- Thread starter MysticGon
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Nintendo's figures also notably don't include digital only titles. With them they're likely over 5B as well.
Fuuuuuuuu! Drives my crazy. Now I have to buy the remaining 0.6m -_-
I mean if it actually was a portable PS4. This would sell literally fucking mountains, but the ps4 is in no way gonna be able to run even more then 2 hours so i don't trust it happening.
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That's precisely the reason we got overpriced proprietary storage on the Vita.
Sony stopped reporting handheld software and hardware numbers in 2012 while the PS3 numbers are up until March 2019. Sony's official PSP hardware and software numbers are therefore a bit lower than reality. All this to cover up how poorly the Vita was doing probably.
It's not secret that Sony found PSP software numbers disappointing though and blamed piracy for it. The attach rate for the PSP was probably significantly weaker than for the PS3. Not quite that low though but it's hard to say how much is missing. Could be 10 million, could be 100. The PSP was still going somewhat strong in Japan in 2012 when Sony stopped reporting and it's impossible to know how many digital PSP games the average Vita owner bought.
Playstation 5 logo reveal, 5 million instagram likes, 5 billion games sold...
It's one big PS5 marketing push.
All handhelds in history have had lower tie ratio than PS3. I mean DS sold less software than PS3 despite selling like 70 million units more hardware.
Historical tie ratios:
Game Boy: 4.22
WonderSwan: 2.86
Game Boy Advance: 4.63
Nintendo DS: 6.16
PlayStation Portable: 4.38
Nintendo 3DS: 5.04
I mean PSP has lowish tie ratio but in line with GB and GBA.
It really was. :(
Such a fantastic handheld. I own over 270 games for that beautiful bastard. It's a nice mix of PS1, PSP, and Vita games, but a ton to play for sure. Leave me on a desert island for a few years with my Vita, and I'd still have a shit ton of games to play and get through. I'd have loved to see a proper successor to the Vita (with 4 shoulder buttons, and clickable L3 and R3 analog buttons; basically a PS4 controller with a screen XD XD ).
My hope is one day Sony finds its way back to the handheld market. The Switch is a wonderful system, but I'm a big fan of Sony first party studios and titles, and would love to have some of their titles on the go. Hell, just give me a handheld PlayStation that can play PS1 and PS2 classics, and I'd be happy with that too. I don't expect a portable PlayStation to be able to run PS3 and PS4 games without melting my hands and/or sounding like a jet engine (why not both?). Not to mention garbage battery life.