Golden Week Not Kind to PS Vita

<p>The first week in May is traditionally a huge week for video game hardware and software sales in Japan&period; The mix of holidays known as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Golden Week” gives millions of people time off&period; This is usually a time for traveling and spending disposable income on fancy new electronics&period;  This year&comma; most of that disposable income went to one company in particular&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Below is the hardware sales numbers&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>3DS – 91&comma;868<br &sol;>&NewLine;PS3 – 23&comma;478<br &sol;>&NewLine;PSP – 20&comma;033<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wii – 15&comma;789<br &sol;>&NewLine;PSV – 10&comma;583<br &sol;>&NewLine;DS – 1&comma;911<br &sol;>&NewLine;PS2 – 1&comma;611<br &sol;>&NewLine;360 – 1&comma;420<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the Vita’s first Golden Week it sold one-third of what the 3DS did in its first Golden Week last year&period; To put things in perspective&comma; Japan had just suffered a massive tsunami&comma; the 3DS had fewer titles and the price drop had not happened&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let’s take a look at the top 20 software sales&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&period; &lpar;WII&rpar; Mario Party 9<br &sol;>&NewLine;2&period; &lpar;PS3&rpar; Resident Evil&colon; Operation Raccoon City<br &sol;>&NewLine;3&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Fire Emblem&colon; Awakening<br &sol;>&NewLine;4&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Super Mario Land 3D<br &sol;>&NewLine;5&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Mario Kart 7<br &sol;>&NewLine;6&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Kid Icarus&colon; Uprising<br &sol;>&NewLine;7&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Monster Hunter 3 G<br &sol;>&NewLine;8&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Mario &amp&semi; Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games<br &sol;>&NewLine;9&period; &lpar;PSP&rpar; Conception&colon; Please Have My Children&excl;<br &sol;>&NewLine;10&period; &lpar;WII&rpar; Wii Sports Resort<br &sol;>&NewLine;11&period; &lpar;PSP&rpar; Pro Baseball Spirits 2012<br &sol;>&NewLine;12&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Kingdom Hearts 3D&colon; Dream Drop Distance<br &sol;>&NewLine;13&period; &lpar;NDS&rpar; Pokemon &plus; Nobunaga no Yabou<br &sol;>&NewLine;14&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Shin Sangoku Musou VS<br &sol;>&NewLine;15&period; &lpar;WII&rpar; Wii Party<br &sol;>&NewLine;16&period; &lpar;PS3&rpar; Pro Baseball Spirits 2012<br &sol;>&NewLine;17&period; &lpar;WII&rpar; Mario Kart Wii<br &sol;>&NewLine;18&period; &lpar;PSP&rpar; Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Saisei-hen<br &sol;>&NewLine;19&period; &lpar;3DS&rpar; Harvest Moon&colon; The Land of Origin<br &sol;>&NewLine;20&period; &lpar;WII&rpar; Go Vacation<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Interestingly enough&comma; there is not a single Vita title on the list&period; Hopefully Sony can turn things for the Vita around before they end up in the same position they did with the PSP&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;playstationlifestyle&period;net&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;10&sol;vitas-golden-week-not-so-golden&sol;">PlayStation Lifestyle<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;