New handheld tops 6 million other PlayStation-related hardware sales
In excess of 6.5m PlayStation consoles were sold worldwide in the period between November 18th to December 31st, Sony has estimated.
Of those sales, the new PlayStation Vita contributed half a million units following its Japanese launch on December 17th.
Sony added that over 70 Vita games are currently in development for the Japanese market.
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I don't think there is too much of a market for handhelds like this any longer. Numbers would seem to support that.
Hold on, a device on sale in a single territory thats sold 500,000 expensive units in the past 3 weeks and its DOA?
Please..
Every time a console launches these days people scream failure after a few weeks even with great early adopter sales who are a small proportion of consumers when you take into account the life of a product i can add.
When sales flatline and developers stop rushing to get games to market for this thing you can call it dead.
I can see a new console ramping up and devs rushing to get content out there.
I remember the PSP and recently the 3DS was DOA once.. Hmm.
Half a million sales is pretty damn good. Japan has always been a reliable territory for Sony, but if other territories display such promise, they may be onto a winner. Plus, the few games on offer so far aren't exactly top quality, so once the range is expanded with better IP - Little Big Planet, for example - the appeal of the console will be reinforced. Having said that, winter is always an important season for the games industry.
Anyway, a good launch, it seems.
