Weekly Sales Analysis, 17 December 2011 - Vita, FF XIII-2

"Overview - Sales have increased across the board and will peak next week. However following next week sales will drop rather quickly as the holiday season ends. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3) is the biggest debut this week with sales of 539,000. Also the PlayStation Vita, the successor to the PSP, launched in Japan this week with sales of 322,000 in just two days on sale.

Software milestones this week in the top 20: Just Dance 3 (Wii) flies by the four million mark; Super Mario 3D Land (3DS) flies by the three million mark; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (X360) passes 10 million sold in record time; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3) passes eight million sold; Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Wii) passes the one million mark; The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (X360) reaches the four million mark; Wii Sports Resort reaches 30 million sold; The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii) passes two million sold; and Assassin's Creed: Revelations (PS3) reaches the two million mark.

Hardware sales are up across the board week on week, while the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are also up year on year. The 3DS, Xbox 360 and Wii all sold more than one million units this week. Expect the PlayStation 3 to also cross the one million mark next week. Hardware milestones this week: The Wii passes the 93 million mark; the Xbox 360 passes the 62 million mark; the PlayStation 3 passes the 59 million mark; and the 3DS passes the 12 million mark."

[Pyscho_Mantis]

VGchartz you fail.

[Pedantic91]

But can someone please make some sense of these charts ?

I can't tell if the Vita is doing well or not.

[Hicken]

These charts don't tell you, because it's essentially two days' worth of sales, as opposed to the past few months' worth of sales for everything else.

And I may be wrong, but I could swear I've seen 327,000 everywhere else for the Vita.

[wonderwall97]

That is Japan Sales. For Japan Sales we have media create.

Also, I don't understand why we need to throw the "Vita" word a lot these days. It's like a lot of articles these days are inserting a sentence or two for the Sony handheld. Telling about its current sales. Oh well.

[knifefight]

I don't see why we need VGChartz shitty, inaccurate rumors when we have actual, real data from Media Create when it comes to Japan.