BlowoverKing on 28 January 2016
Kind of a random question but does anyone have some historical total LTD numbers for Vita and PSP , specifically launch aligned if possible?
The only reason I ask is that I got bored earlier and went digging through some of the older weekly sales pages here on VGC and noticed something. The PSP sucked ass as far as software went in Japan, especially at the same point in it's life as the Vita is right now and I just want to see if VGC is accurate.
According to VGC (and if I aligned them correctly) here's what the situation looked like:
- PSP Hardware - 11,246,086, Software - 23,190,670 (2.06:1)
- PSV Hardware - 4,521,596, Software - 17,228,250 (3.81:1)
From a hardware perspective Vita has only sold 40% as many consoles as the PSP but as far as software it's sold 75% as many games. Now the PSP did make a decent comeback thanks to Monster Hunter exploding and a late surge in 2010/2011 but I was suprised by how terrible it did from 2004-2008.
Did the PSP just not have many games releasing or were people just not buying games for it?
