God Eater a little lower than I was expecting, but on the whole 260k for a vita game before adding digital is fine, VitaTV not quite setting the world alight but of all the places they could have launched it handheldland Japan was one of the worst (hopefully it does better in the West if we ever get it). Other than that, GTAV showing impressive legs, quite a few minor bombas and of the 14,000 people who bought a WiiU this week, only 1,500 didn't NSMBU (I know that there'll be plenty of people buying it who already have their consoles, but it does at least suggest that that bundle in particular was a success)

I predicted 286k for the Vita version so i'm like on it.
Vita TV numbers are confusing me, I don't know whether i should consider it a good or awful start. But that's okay for now.
VITA for the first time above 3DS, even during launch it couldn't outsell it.

2nd time actually

Price drop + Soul Sacrfice pushed it above the 3DS for a week

Dude you were expecting 400k FW with digital sales -.-

In fairness if you take the usual rule of thumb of 33% of vita's sales coming thorugh digital, that gets you 260k+130k for 390k FW, which isn't that far off

I thought it was close to it. I can't remember correctly.

Have you visited many Japan Sales threads in the past year?

This time last year, I'd have completely agreed with you.  Sony didn't have much in the pipeline and third party software wasn't really selling anymore.  Neither is true at the moment, nor have they been for most of the year.

A game like Amazones is an even worse example.  Vita has a pretty big back-catalogue of small, niche titles selling better than expected.

Yep, that's why Vita Conception 2 outsold 3DS Conception 2 by 5:1. That's why Vita Exstetra outsold 3DS Exstetra by 4:1. That's why Akiba's trip 2 is ahead of Akiba 1 launch aligned. That's why Falcom doubled its profits with Sen no Kiseki. That's why Vita has actually more games scheduled than 3DS in 2014 in Japan.

Nice try.

Don't forget the two weeks it got its first price cut and Soul Sacrifice. When it got its price cut it was the first time it outsold 3DS alone, but outsold 3DS + 3DS XL when SS came out.

I was right on with my GE2 Vita prediction. Didn't expect the PSP version to do that much less.

Vita also surpassed expectations.