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Well, this was an interesting month.

I'm gonna start with my favourite console, Vita.  It's such a bizarre situation in the USA.  It's clearly selling whatever they ship (6k last month; 20k this month, there's no consistency) but Sony and retailers don't seem at all fussed about keeping stock levels up.  Whyyyyy.  

(I know this'll never get fixed, but Borderlands 2 Vita is undertracked in the USA still.  End of May NPD = 83k.  End of May VGC = 58k.  Another ~ 20k this month means only 10k sold between June/July/August which is wrong given current trends.  It's clearly a massive percentage of the consoles sold and should follow that).

PS4 is... very impressive.  Oddly impressive in fact.  I just don't get how it's selling this well, especially on the current library.  Props to Sony for that - I hope they don't damage all this goodwill by continuing to make mistakes like the Driveclub launch fiasco and PSN being as unstable as possible.

XB1 really isn't that bad to be honest.  It had a lot going in its favour this month and probably should've done better, but it's still selling very well for itself.  I genuinely believe things can still get a lot better for it - I certainly don't think it's impossible to catch up to PS4 in future.  After all, PS3 turned things around greatly in 2009 with a remodel and a great number of high class exclusives.  I think the most damaging thing for XB1 at the moment is all the EA Sports stuff.  MS have targeted those gamers pretty heavily and yet they're still playing on PS4 over XB1... they're likely to tell their friends to get them on PS4 too.  

3DS is hard to tell.  This was Smash month right?  Any other month I'd have said 140k for the leader in a dying market would actually have been excellent, but to have a big game release... ehh.

WiiU same as usual.  90k is miles better than the position it was in, but I think things aren't going to change soon.

 

Now... where's DanganRonpa/Ar NoSurge/Natural Doctrine numbers?! :(