It's not a myth in France. I can tell you that...

I would thought that PSVita might outsell 3DS this week , guess i was wrong . Miku being the top as normal ( Am i the only one surprised that the PSV ver outsold the PS3 despite the large gap of install base ) . I wonder what caused 3DS to have a sales spike even though it dint have any noticeable new games .

That's what happens when the Knack bundles go bye-bye! T_T

The sales spike, whihc boosted many consoles, is due to a sales tax increase from the Japanesee government on April 01.   Many consumers picked up various devices to beat the increased price imposed the following days.

I'd imagine the 3DS seeing a greater-than-the-others sales spike was also due to this:

And these:

Even crap limited edition consoles (or indeed, in this case, related to games people aren't interested in) still tend to boost hardware.

You called it, I thought 3DS would (alot of people actually) lose to vita a couple times this month. Especiall these past 2 weeks (even though you can call it a tie for last week).

3DS holding that crown :)

To be honest, I'd forgotten that Monster Hunter LE was coming =/

I found it weird that people were pinning their hopes on Miku 2 when it was also on PS3; and Miku fans were already on the system thanks to the first game + LE console

many expected much higher as vita gained 4k-5k from week to week (though its still very high)

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Some depressingly interesting stuff if anyone is interested:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=106811816&postcount=419

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/00...3/index-3.html

Fiscal year 2013 is the worst since 2000.

- 2013: 425.0 billion yen
- 2003: 450.1 billion yen
- 2004: 456.6 billion yen
- 2012: 459.7 billion yen 

6 years of decline.

What? But the Japanese console market is doing great!