3DS vs Vita 3rd Party Sales and Support

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DanneSandin said:

I read this thread, and it got me thinking whether or not this ”fact” actually was true; does Vita have more 3^rd party support than the 3DS? And how come it does? Do 3^rd party games preform better on the PSV than on the 3DS? I compiled a Top 10 selling 3^rd Party Games on both consoles to find out.

3DS (with 11 games, read on to find out why):

GAMES	PUBLISHER	SALES
Monster Hunter 4	Capcom	3.23
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance	Square Enix	1.28
Dragon Quest VII	Square Enix	1.24
Puzzle & Dragons	GungHo	1.16
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games	Sega	1.07
Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition	Capcom	1.01
Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D	Square Enix	0.96
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars	LucasArts	0.89
Sonic Generations	Sega	0.83
Resident Evil: Revelations	Capcom	0.76
Professor Layton and the Legacy of Civilization A	Level 5	0.64

VITA:

GAMES	PUBLISHER	SALES
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation	Ubisoft	0.89
Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified	Activision	0.87
Persona 4: The Golden	Atlus	0.60
Need for Speed: Most Wanted - A Criterion Game	Electronic Arts	0.56
FIFA Soccer	Electronic Arts	0.47
Mortal Kombat	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	0.42
Rayman Origins	Ubisoft	0.40
God Eater 2	Namco Bandai Games	0.38
Ragnarok Odyssey	GungHo	0.32
FIFA Soccer 13	Electronic Arts	0.30

 

 

3DS total sales: 12.43m (9.84m excluding Monster Hunter 4 an including Professor Layton)

Vita total sales: 5.21m

As you can see, 3^rd parties does perform rather well on the 3DS, and they do considerably better on Nintendo's handheld than on Sony's – but that's probably because of the much larger install base. The eleventh (or tenth, if we exclude MH4) best selling 3^rd party game on 3DS still sold better than the third best selling 3^rd party game on Vita, and the next 8 3^rd party games on 3DS all sold over 0.5m, while only the top 4 on Vita pulled the same numbers.

What's interesting to note, is that 9 of the top 10 3^rd party games on 3DS is from a Japanese publisher, while on Vita only 3 publishers of the Top 10 are from Japan, and the rest is from the West. The best performing Western 3^rd party publisher on 3DS outside the Top 10 is Ubisoft with Rayman 3D, with 0.57m sales.

Final analysis:

3^rd parties are doing well on the 3DS, compared to the Vita. While Western 3^rd parties seem to be doing better on Sony's handheld, than they do on Nintendo's; the best 12 selling 3DS 3^rd party games from a Western publisher all sold more than 0.3m, which means they all did at least as good as the tenth best selling 3^rd party game on Vita. While Capcom, Square Enix and Sega has multiple titles on the Top 10 on 3DS, EA and Ubisoft has had multiple titles on Vita's Top 10. Vita has a lot more violent games on this Top 10 list (AssCreed, CoD, Mortal Kombat etc), but the sales of Street Fighter and RE: Revelations on the 3DS shows that there definitely is a market for those kind of games on Nintendo's handheld as well.

If I was a 3^rd party publisher (no matter if I was a Japanese or Western publisher) I'd develop for the 3DS, as I would be more likely to see a return of my money on that console.

What do YOU think of this list? Which handheld would you develop a game for, and why?

where is Konami whith Castlevania and MGS ????