Are we really arguing over what is probably statistical noise and small discrepancies between trackers in the hardware? Vita and 3DS both sold the same this week, for all intends and purposes. And good for them both.
For anyone wondering about hardware increases across the board - apparently there's some tax hike or somesuch in Japan coming in the next few weeks from 5% to 8%, so it's to be expected for all hardware; especially the newer stuff which is still expensive. Including WiiU.
As for software, mostly great successes all around. Biggest surprise of the week for me is J-Stars. Was not expecting that at all based on pre-orders and general hype. 200k and the second best selling game of the week is impressive.
Metal Gear Solid did extremely well for what it is; Mario Party did very well too. Hyperdimension Neptunia is a bit down on the last game, but nothing too bad.
Samurai Warriors 4 noticably down on the previous entry though, which isn't great, although Vita held a surprisingly strong percentage of sales for this musou title. However, disappointment of the week is Pro Baseball Spirits. PS3 & PSP versions are wayyyyyyy down; and Vita version is only mildly up. They needed to get it out on PS4 this year, was a real error missing that.
Phantasy Star & Hero Bank don't seem great either, but the latter has a chance of legs through the anime and the former is just a paid package of a F2P game, so unsurprising really.
I expect 3DS to be ahead of Vita next week. Miku < 4 hardware bundles. Even if 3 of those bundles are tied to New Love+ which looks like it's going to massively underperform, they're still LE consoles and people will want to collect them, and that'll give 3DS a boost.
