| outlawauron said: How else would you compare? Monster Hunter tips the scale heavily for 3DS, but that's is more of an outlier as a main MH sells well on all platforms. The biggest selling games on 3DS all come from huge franchises that the Vita does not have (Dragon Quest, Puzzles and Dragons, and MH). It's the cream of the crop so to speak. Once you get past that, the two systems are pretty equaliavent on 3rd party Japanese sales. This stigma exists because the number of announcements + the fact that there are several small/mid level games that have done very well on Vita. The fact that the Vita userbase is 1/7th of the 3DS makes people more surpised at God Eater, Miku, and Senran Kagura. |
Let's not overstate the matter: there have only been two Monster Hunter games, one P & Z, and two Dragon Quest titles. It takes a long time after those games before the two systems become even remotely equivalent. This is doubly true when the Vita series you've identified have a decent pedigree (God Eater 1: 700k; God Eater Burst: 620k; Three Hatsuna Miku games between 260k and 410k; Senran Kagura has sold on par with the 3DS titles), and that the remainder of the Vita top ten has games like Final Fantasy and Persona in it.
It ain't all David vs. Goliath here. Shoot, Phoenix Wright sold more than all but one Vita game (100k more than the #2 Vita title). Harvest Moon is ahead of all but God Eater and Persona, and only 10k behind Persona at that! I'm just not seeing this alleged parity. Maybe the small developers are pleased to reach 50k Vita sales, but that happens even more often on the 3DS, so...
