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PlayStation Vita Sales Drop to 42,000 in Japan, 3DS Riding High

Posted January 5, 2012 by M.H. Williams

Poor PlayStation Vita.  Japan does not love you.  Andriasang has translated the Media Create charts for December 26 to January 1, and things are not looking good for Sony’s portable.  The system sold 42,648 units, down from 72,479 units in its second week.  No Vita software appears in the Top 20 at all.

On the flipside, Nintendo’s 3DS is riding high being only 17,763 units from outselling the rest of the listed hardware combined.  The 3DS sold 197,952 units for the week, with Mario Kart 7, Monster Hunter 3G, and Super Mario 3D Land representing the system in the Top 5.

The full chart is below (last week’s number in parentheses):

• 3DS: 197,952 (482,200)
• PS3: 67,199 (75,943)
• PSP: 62,746 (101,121)
• PSV: 42,648 (72,479)
• Wii: 33,208 (91,176)
• DSi LL: 3,356 (8,470)
• X360: 2,453 (4,245)
• DSi: 2,418 (5,894)
• PS2: 1,659 (1,582)
• DS Lite: 28 (32)

And the top 20 software for the week:

• [3DS] 01. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/01): 109,463 (1,160,169)
• [3DS] 02. Monster Hunter 3G (Cacpom, 12/10): 100,042 (985,498)
• [PS3] 03. Musou Orochi 2 (Tecmo Koei, 12/22): 73,526 (274,052)
• [3DS] 04. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/03): 68,483 (1,080,192)
• [PS3] 05. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 12/15): 61,202 (704,236)
• [3DS] 06. Inazuma Eleven Go (Level-5, 12/15): 47,938 (269,224)
• [WII] 07. Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, 10/13): 33,347 (453,411)
• [WII] 08. Hoshi no Kirby Wii (Nintendo, 10/27): 24,067 (537,128)
• [WII] 09. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07/08/2010): 22,932 (2,223,629)
• [3DS] 10. SD Gundam G Generation 3D (Nintendo, 12/22): 20,427 (111,300)
• [WII] 11. Wii Sports Resort Wiimote Plus Pack (Nintendo, 11/11/2010): 19,999 (802,974)
• [WII] 12. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, 04/10/2008): 19,410 (3,448,314)
• [WII] 13. Go Vacation (Nintendo, 10/20): 19,312 (181,165)
• [PS3] 14. Idolmaster Anime & G4U Pack Vol.3 (Nintendo, 12/29): 18,992
• [WII] 15. Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Extreme (Nintendo, 12/22): 18,772 (103,889)
• [WII] 16. Taiko Drum Master Wii Ultimate Version (Nintendo, 11/23): 18,041 (173,580)
• [PS3] 17. Winning Eleven 2012 (Nintendo, 11/03): 17,806 (157,404)
• [PS3] 18. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Subtitled Version (Nintendo, 12/22): 17,394 (68,549)
• [PS3] 19. Powerful Pro Baseball 2011 Ultimate Version (Nintendo, 12/22): 17,065 (51,905)
• [PSP] 20. Frontier Gate (Nintendo, 12/22): 15,800 (44,443)

M.H. Williams has been writing in some form or another for ten years and has been a hardcore gamer since the NES first graced American shores.  You can catch him on Twitter as @AutomaticZen, Google+ as himself, or on his personal Facebook page.