Never said Vita is getting more support than PSP.

 I said its getting SOME support. There are some pretty big IP coming to Vita this year.

Let's hope for the best.

Since the Media Create thread won't be up until Monday, I'll just post this here.

500K of the 2.3M Animal Crossing: New Leaf copies sold are downloads. 22% of all sales being downloads.

Iwata states, unable to hide his surprise, that 'For a game that costs 4800 yen to sell 500,000 copies without a discount because it is a download is quite an event.'

http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZZO50298050V00C13A1000000/

Japanese stores had these download codes that you could buy in-store. A majority of those downloads were actually purchased through retail.

IMO the barrier to entry for digital sales is convincing customers they don't need a physical copy of a game, not getting them to go online and buy it, so the distinction between eShop sale and download card sale is pretty irrelevant. Both cases are a digital sale -- that is, the customer does not purchase a physical cartridge. Download cards probably just work a lot better as gifts, and as a security measure, since a lot of people don't feel comfortable entering their credit/debit card information online.

At first I thought this was really great for Vita... then I started looking into what these games are...

For starters, this is an actual screenshot from Demon Gaze, and Monster Monpiece is the game where you rub the touchscreens to remove womens' clothing.

...On second thought, these are just the sort of games the Vita needs in Japan! Godspeed, PSV.

200k downloads is still kinda high.

Jesus...that's alot of digital sales. ioi needs to start tracking digital sales ASAP!

When AKB can sell 400k in Japan and Photokano 100k, it's hard to under-estimate anything, really.

They aren't exactly games that the Vita needs, no doubt.  But they're better than the "nothing" that it had throughout most of 2012.

Now, wru Japan numbers.

Where do the cards lie then? Buying the card still means a purchase as buying a retail copy or purchasing it straight from the eShop. Some people buy cards to avoid putting money in their accounts, use of credit card, or they found a deal outside of a retail copy. A purchase is still a purchase as long as you spent money. You're really just buying a download code in the form of a card.

so 3DS was the only 1m week this festive season

of course we'll get adjustments when the figures come in but good week for PS3,Vita didn't break through the holidays

Far Cry 3 improving a lot on Far Cry 2 then by the looks of it