Global UP! 9th February 2013 (Global Software added)

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Yakuzaice said:

Wii U/Vita aligned launch comparison

US week 12
Wii U: 8,795
Vita: 13,154

Europe week 11
Wii U: 8,013
Vita: 18,875

Japan week 10
Wii U: 11,652
Vita: 11,510

Total
Wii U: 28,460
Vita: 43,539

Wii U manages to scrape by this week in Japan, but the Vita is 53% higher across the three regions.

Damn! Vita wiping the floor with Wii U! ;)

The brothers in doom are doing so bad :( I'm not affraid for the Wii U, it'll manage to repeat the GCN numbers eventually, when 1st party games get released, but I'm starting to get worried about the Vita. The 3rd parties seem to be shifting towards 3DS, which is really short-sighted and detrimental to the industry. I mean, I know that this week DQ has erupted, but just last week with both consoles getting nothing we has 30 million 3DS gamers buying 464,793 games, while 4 million Vita gamers bought 125,025 games. The numbers were simmilar in the weeks before. 3rd parties should be interested in developing a market where gamers buy more games per capita and especially more 3rd party games (let's face it - most of the 464k were Nintendo games).

Vita will be getting some stuff this year, mainly in Japan, but will it be enough? I'm not sure if Sony is capable of fending off MS on the home console market, while making awesome games on Vita without the help of the 3rd parties. Especially since so far Sony hasn't been showing any interest in bringing big time RPGs to the console, even though they do own a few great IPs in the genre. I'm just hoping that Soul Sacrifice and Tales of Hearts R do something in Japan, while Killzone gets the West going and that the console reaches 8-9 million total consoles sold after this year, which would hopefully be enough for the 3rd parties to start developing games for it.