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Is the Vita trully over in Europe?

Without Sony's support, yes. 9 23.68%
 
It could flourish, europeans love PS things. 13 34.21%
 
The niche market for it h... 11 28.95%
 
Tu quoque, PS4? 5 13.16%
 
Total:38

So I was looking the hardware numbers on this site when I found something quite interesting.

Platform North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
PlayStation Vita (PSV) 2.34 4.13 4.04 1.75 12.26

In general there are low numbers, yes, but what really surprised me is that, acording to VGChartz, the Vita has sold better in Europe than in Japan. Now, Europe has a tradition of being very PS-centric, but having sold more Vitas than Japan, the main market for the handheld?

Software-wise, of the top 10 best-selling Vita games, Europe is the main market for six of them: Uncharted: Golden Abyss, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, MineCraft, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Killzone: Mercenary and Tearaway. That's a lot, even if those numbers are different if we included digital.

It also says than the Vita has sold better in Europe than the XBone, which, again, Europe has always favoured the PS brand over Xbox, but it's sure a decent feat for a console that most people (hell, even Sony) says is over in the West.

Europe likes the Vita, it's only behind the PS4 (the monster of this gen) and the 3DS (Nintendo's handheld). If Sony pushed their brand there more, they could improve their success, but with them taking features away (like youtube and facebook support), it seems that's not on their minds. Should Sony try and push the Vita, even if it is just with a pricecut or better bundles (the Tadeo Jones, Disney Infinity and Looney Toons ones are the only ones I ve seen on stores. Not a great incentive for someone looking for core gaming).?



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Its especially crazy since we don't get half the games Japan gets as well...



Over? Nah..more like stale. It can't grow. The sales are thanks to some very centric PS countries (wasn't it over 600k just in Spain alone?) but with an user base that buys sports games and other casual stuff. Sony support wouldn't help it grow. Plus, as PS4 goes down in price in the future those people will just buy that instead.
Still glad we helped its sales at least



I honestly think if Sony did a price cut on the Vita in europe, and maybe put a little developement behinde a game or two for the vita. Sales would be healthy for along time forwards.

Sony needs to work on getting all the japanese games translated atleast into english, as well.
The vita dispite everyone claiming it being dead, still has a thriving software eco-system, and sales are still okay.

I would like to see Vita's at 175$ or less if thats possible for sony without selling them at a loss.

(maybe its time for a revised model that cuts down in part costs? like the 2DS vs the 3DS).



SCEE Spain still actually commission software and we are still expecting a few more titles which they announced last year.

The software is very much younger end of the market though. Hence titles like Invizimals, Looney Tunes etc.

I could see a price cut helping them expand that market a good deal more as even just as a kids/JRPG platform, a £99.99 (EURO 129.99) price point could tempt more people on board.

Strangely, a few of my friends have recently picked up Vitas because of the stealth exclusive lineup that has sneakily emerged over the past 18 months. They don't buy any retail games though, they've gone purely digital.



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Europeans trusted Sony with the Vita, but their faith wasn't rewarded. Nowdays most Europeans hate Vita, just to make an example I've never heard a sentence about Vita from Europeans that wasn't alongside paperweight, and I'm beeing serious



People always say PS Vita is dead in the west though it is selling better in Europe than in Japan!!!
600k+ in Spain showed that PS Vita is doing really well in most European countries.
And PS Vita is still getting exclusive retail games from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (for example: Muppets and Looney Tunes). They should help boost PS Vita hardware. And there is also Minecraft on PS Vita which is huge in Europe.



Im happy with my vita like k was happy with my dreamcast. But ps vita in benelux barely has any games left. Vita is dead. They still sell minecraft vita. But vita itself only getz solf by gamemania a'd thats it. Vita is dying



PS Vita can even outsell Xbox One in Europe!



I find the VGChartz tracking in Europe for Vita very strange. Vita is outselling the Wii U in europe as a whole, but if you look the big 3 european countries, it's the Wii U which is constantly up front, and often by a big margin. These 3 countries make around 60% of the Wii U sales in Europe, but only around 20% for Vita. So either Vita is heavely undertracked in those countries or Vita is a big hit in the other countries.