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Mnementh on 10 July 2018
Stuart23 said:
Congrats. A few years ago I always said that Wii U would beat the Vita in sales and I admit I was dead wrong. While it is probably on its last legs now, it was a good cult system that unfortunately Sony didn't support more.

Agreed. The system could've been more successful, if Sony had put more trust in it and send some more support it's way.



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Stuart23 on 10 July 2018
Mnementh said:
Stuart23 said:
Congrats. A few years ago I always said that Wii U would beat the Vita in sales and I admit I was dead wrong. While it is probably on its last legs now, it was a good cult system that unfortunately Sony didn't support more.

Agreed. The system could've been more successful, if Sony had put more trust in it and send some more support it's way.

Sony just gave up way too fast...I know the system wasn't selling well,but there was still interest on the system (especially on Japan) that Sony never really took advantage of it. I see it as kind of an opposite Wii U situation, where the thirds kept fighting for the console way after the first parties left the boat.



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LivingMetal on 10 July 2018
Darwinianevolution said:
LivingMetal said:

Don't. Mock The. VITA. Ever.

But I'm just congratulating it... :(



fleischr on 10 July 2018

nah... it's overtracked on this site by a good large amount



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think-man on 10 July 2018

Deserved better. Was my main handheld even over the 3DS. There are no victories here...



 

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Mandalore76 on 10 July 2018
Kerotan said:
PSV 140,312 (-81%) 16,003,674

 

I noticed it recently passed this milestone. I remember for years there were debates on who would sell more between Wii u and vita. Who would finish last for the gen. I think it's settled now even taking into account the margin for error. 

That was settled once Nintendo (wisely) pulled the plug on the Wii U after 4 years and 3 months, compared to the Vita which has been on sale for 6 years and 7 months.  Of course with over 2 years less sales data the Wii U finishes with less sales.  But, if we're being honest, they both finished last.  Wii U (13.9 million) was last to it's direct competitors Xbox One (37.7 million) and PS4 (80.1 million).  Vita (16 million) was last to it's direct competitor 3DS (72.2 million).  Nintendo purposely pulled the plug on the Wii U rather than trickle in sales to make way for the Switch which sold more in 1 year (17.8 million) than the Wii U managed in 4x that amount of time or the Vita in over 6x that.  



trixiemafia86 on 10 July 2018

Still a head scratcher how Vita outsold Wii U. Wii U had Mario ffs.

Even VGchartz have erased Wii U from the front page. Well, Nintendo did the same so.... smh



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Metroid33slayer on 10 July 2018

It's definately outsold wii u by now but what about software, what was the best selling vita game? Mario kart 8 did 8.4 million, surely no vita game sold near even half of that other than minecraft.

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-Newcloud- on 10 July 2018

Such untapped potential these should be the years we get the best from the system



JRPGfan on 10 July 2018
Mnementh said:
Stuart23 said:
Congrats. A few years ago I always said that Wii U would beat the Vita in sales and I admit I was dead wrong. While it is probably on its last legs now, it was a good cult system that unfortunately Sony didn't support more.

Agreed. The system could've been more successful, if Sony had put more trust in it and send some more support it's way.

The hardware design & memory cards..... just wasnt up to par.
Sony messed up the hardware simple as that, it coulda been cheaper and used normal memory cards.

I dont think better software 1st party support would have done much for it.

Its a great little system for all the jrpgs it has though, and thats the niche that helped got it accross that 16m mark.