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Arklite

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,640
PS Plus offerings sold me a Vita and kept the games coming. I think I've bought maybe 3 games for Vita ever. Not a good thing but as a customer experience I can't complain.
 

ZhugeEX

Senior Analyst at Niko Partners
Verified
Oct 24, 2017
3,099
I promise I'll stop after this one.

Vita software in the US was so bad that the top 5 Wii U games combined sold more than every single Vita game combined (Packaged Software comp only)
 

ryseing

Bought courtside tickets just to read a book.
Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,546
For lovers
But man, what does it say about how dead an IP Resistance was at that point when it couldn't crack the top 10 despite releasing pretty close to the launch of the system?

That Resistance game was hot trash.

Then they reskinned it six months later.

I don't know why more people don't talk about this.
 

Braaier

Banned
Oct 29, 2017
13,237
Yikes! Those are some LOW sales! 400k for the highest selling game on the device?!

Yeah, no way Sony tries their hand at a handheld again. Those figures are brutal!
 

huH1678

Member
Oct 30, 2017
1,029
And people wonder why Sony stopped supporting it with big games and GG Cambridge died.

Edit: I own 5 of those games,I knew the sales were bad since Sony dropped it so fast. Wish we didn't have the numbers tbh x'D
 

Deleted member 11413

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
22,961
Persona 4 Golden would be much higher on the list if digital sales were included. Otherwise it's not surprising, Vita is very niche.
 

SiDCrAzY

Member
Oct 27, 2017
135
Texas
Poor Vita, I really enjoyed my time with mine. I'm glad the Switch has taken its place, for me at least. Really does feel like a follow up to the Vita, done better.
 

Deleted member 2785

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
2,119
Any chance we could get a list of everyone participating in the DLP? I hope Nintendo, Sega and Bethesda all join up soon.

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Nov 2, 2017
6,808
Shibuya
Honestly very telling that mot of these titles released in the first year. with Zhuge saying it was a 400k ceiling in the US it's no wonder support dried up so hard and so fast.
 

night814

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 29, 2017
15,039
Pennsylvania
Yikes! Those are some LOW sales! 400k for the highest selling game on the device?!

Yeah, no way Sony tries their hand at a handheld again. Those figures are brutal!
That's only North America but I imagine the rest of the world isn't much better and Japan's top 10 sell list would be radically different then this one lol
 

brambles13

Member
Oct 27, 2017
546
I'm genuinely surprised at the lack of FFX remake or Metal Gear Solid remakes. Both were excellent.
 

KillerMan91

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,355
I made the same mistake, Mat himself came in here and said they are. Which is even more terrifying.
Persona 4 is Atlus (Sega) game. It doesn't include digital sales (like that asterisk on the chart shows).

Could we get PSP numbers to see how they compare?
While PSP was in no way software selling monster (outside of DS no handheld is) its software sales were not as bad people sometimes think. For first few years in US it was actually above 3DS when it comes to sales of retail sw (I remember seeing comparison in one older NPD thread)
 

Springy

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,213
God damn I should've expected it but I'm still disappointed to see that garbage Nihilistic COD game on there.