This week, total sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan surpassed those of the PlayStation Vita, 6.02m vs. 5.99M (8 years vs ~1 year)
woah dude that's fucking...just about what everyone expected.This news is...completely pointless
Yeah I got a feeling it won't be long until the PS5 falls next. LOL.
>>743445558Vita sold that much???
>>743445558my immediate reaction is surprise that the vita sold that muchso disappointed the vita never got any love, it basically only had shitty tie-in titles that made me want to play the game they were promoting
>>743445558Well yeah, there's more kids in the world since the vita released.
The switch 2 got more games in 1 year than the vita did in its life so that's not surprising
>>743446282>japan>increasing number of childrenfunny man
>>743446037Vita actually had some support in Japan, much to Sony's dismay.
Wooo! Rejoice!!!!OUR INVESTMENTS HAVE GROWN!!! So many great games on the Switch 2!!!
>>743445558Wasn't the Vita ultimately considered a failure though? Why is this considered a milestone?
>>743446373There is not a single S2 game that is as good as Soul Sacrifice was.
>>743446528PlayStation considered Vita a failure before it even came out.
>>743445558>Next up is the Playstation 5LMAO They didn't have to say it like that.
Vita - Had gamesDS - Had games3DS - Had gamesGBA - Had gamesSwitch 2 - No gamesI don't give a damn about sales. Software is king for an actual gamer and Nintendo's latest console is lacking.
>>743446373Not really, but it definitely has more games that sold than the Vita did. Vita's library has been whored out like WiiU's over the last decade, to the point that people even celebrated the Muramasa port that was announced last month because its DLC was trapped on Vita.
>>743446395forced meme when the ones collapsing are gooks and chinksat this point japan may have the highest non-shitskin birthrate in the world
>>743446639If I didn't have to pay $500 plus tip to play Kirby Air Riders then I would own that game.
>>743446589But why?Wouldn't having a portable console able to muscle a bit in Nintendo territory be a good thing?Why did they gave up?
>>743446639>vita - had games>switcch 2 - no gamestopkek
>>743446639>Vita - Had gamesstopped reading there
>>743446783They've seen how much they made on mobile apps.
>>743446783There were no games.
>>743446476Kek
>>743445905In a year
>>743446930the vita sold like dogshit and was a non-nintendo handheld with barely any games, It's like being surprised the N64 outsold the Virtual Boy
>>743445558It's looking bleak for playstation. They boiled the frog too quickly. ps6 is going to be a disaster.
>>743446639Lmao do shita stans really think it had games?
>>743446843>Killzone Mercenary>Lumines Electronic Symphony>Wipeout 2048>Uncharted Golden Abyss>Soul Sacrifice Delta>Gravity Rush>Freedom Wars>Tearaway>LittleBigPlanet Vita>ModNation Racers Road Trip>Unit 13>Resistance Burning SkiesVita makes modern Sony look like a joke.
>>743446639>Switch 2 - No gamesThey get the pc leftover sometimes
>>743445558why do people buy switch 2s anyway? it doesn't have any actual switch 2 exclusive that's worth the console price and just using it as a switch 1 emulator doesn't sound like a good use of your money if you already have a switch 1
>>743447231Tearaway and Wipeout are the only decent games here and Wipeout got ported.
>>743446917I mean it makes sense, if something is enough of a failure then everyone wants to forget it but if something isn't universally reviled then it's harder to kill it without people bitching. I for one loved my Vita and hate Sony.
oh shit are we dunking on the vita in 2026fuck yeah suck it weebs
>>743445905>snoy seethe intensifies
3DS outsold PS2 in Japan
>>743447231Switch 2>Mario Kart World>Donkey Kong Bananza>Kirby Air Riders>Fast Fusion>Hyrule Warriors AoI>Yoshi and the Mysterious Book>Splatoon Raiders>Star Fox>Orbitals>Fire Emblem FW>Switch Sports 2>OOT RemakeIn less than 2 years the Switch 2 will mog the fuck out of the Vita library, and I'm not even counting cross-gen games.
>>743445905>woah dude that's fucking...just about what everyone expectedYeah absolutely nobody spent all of 2025 endlessly claiming claiming the Switch would flop or suddenly stop selling.
>>743445558>>743445905sonygroes already crying
>>743446476If you put Minster Hunter on a handheld Japan will buy that handheld.
>>743445558>>743445905Wrong. The Switch 2 is Nintendo’s WORST selling console-powered handheld of all time, and their WORST selling console of the 2020s with the smallest exclusive library out of ANY Nintendo console in the past decade. Switch 2 is going to flop just like the original did (everyone played the games on PC instead).
>>743445558>420dude ps vita lmao
>>743445558Vita was a piece of shit. No idea why the Japs kept supporting it.
WOW THATS IMPRESSIVE. I'M SO FUCKING IMPRESSED. NINTENDO I KNEEL.
>>743446639>Vita - Had games>Switch 2 - No gamesholy delusion. specially now that basically every "Vita exclusive" are already on other systems, specially Switch and Switch 2.
>>7434476074chan is full of retards, that's nothing knew. They think GTAVI is going to flop. They have no grasp on actual reality. Just look at the two retards that think I'm some sony fanboy.
>>743447769And all switch 1 games are already on PC. What's your point?
>>743445558The vita launched when the gacha industry was exploding in popularity and new games were coming out every few days, not really a surprise. MonStrike launched a year after the vita. The gacha industry is slow as shit these days.
>>743447848>all please, post where I can buy BOTW or Xenoblade 2 for PC.you just can't.
>>743447769I want them to bring Oreshika over now
>>743447995we all do! same with Gravity Rush btw.
it's so sad the nintendies entire existence is comparing themselves to playstations success and bringing up 30 year old handhelds lmao just end it bro
>>743447982You buy a random copy of the game and dump the xci. It's like an abstract kind of backwards compatibility.
I see we've entered the phase where we pretend the Vita was good, didn't need a super expensive memory card and it actually had games
Sony should focus more on the smartphone and tablet business, what they sell is overpriced.
>743448198>dump not even worth a (You)
@743448198>i-i-it doesn't count!!!!!!!!Get cancer and die nigger. I played BOTW at 4K 120FPS years before you got the privilege of paying for a fucking patch LOL
>>743445558So Japan is full of shit eaters like the rest of the worldwhat else is new?
>>743448436>/v/ is now pretending that vita was shit just to shit on the switch 2HAHAHAHHA CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UPCOMPLETE PCVEGAN SNOY BOARD
>>743445905Holy cope dude this guy is coping so hard cope cope cope
Unmmm vita bros?? What’s our next move?
>>743448486The Vita was shit you faggot shill, the proprietary memory card alone should have made the console fail harder than it did in Japan.
>>743447995It's basically the only thing left.
>>743448304nobody is impressed by you finally learning to download emulatorsits not relevant to the subject at hand you gorilla retard.
>>743448691NTA but the reason why the Vita failed is because it couldn't compete against the blossoming mobile market of the time. ( >>743447975 )Sony just fucking gave up on Japan after that and moved to America, which was a fucking retarded move because there stopped being new gacha releases every 3 days so even the mobagefags are playing regular games again and Sony threw away the JP market for nothing.
>>743447231>LittleBigPlanet Vitaliteral shovelware more shovelware-y than fucking funko bot, and that's saying something
>>743449131the actual reason vita died was because the memory card was expensive as fuck and because Sony tried to sell it as a portable PS4 with big 3rd party support but they gave up after literal 10 months when the ww sales were at like, 4 million units. every big western publishers stopped supporting it in its first year too.The japanese publishers were literally the only ones supporting it and that's mainly because they were retarded enough to keep falling for sony schemes.
>Switch 2 outsold this hug flop that made Sony exit the handheld marketcongrats. Also smoked the N-gage. Nintendomination!
>>743449814That's why it failed in the west, it failed in Japan because the Japanese were juggling 8 to 10 gachas at a time and doing constant risemaras as they hopped game from game. That's why the Vita sales in Japan were so shit for a portable, normally just being a portable and the successor to the PSP would have been enough.The vita was a wrong place/wrong time product, at least in Japan. In the west Sony didn't give it any support but like you said, it DID have support in Japan. It simply didn't matter because the Japanese were finally adopting smart phones during that period and were playing games on their shiny new phones.>2011–2012: Major carriers started aggressively pushing smartphones as LTE (4G) networks rolled out. Adoption climbed from roughly 10% to around 40% during this window
>>7434455586 is supposed to be a lot? LMAO...
>>743446783portables had to compete with phones and they lost pretty hard. Also it was obvious that generation that companies couldn't afford to support both a portable and a home console considering how the Wii U crashed and burned.
>snoys already coping with "gacha killed the vita!" as if sony didn't force jp devs to contact the trannifornian HQ at literal 3am to even try publish games on the console, forcing a lot of AA JP devs to release on the switch to survive and the snoy devs to cope with PS4 only releases >that and the gacha boom not actually happening in mainstream spaces until genshit during covid in 2020, where it competed more with the switch than the vita
The vita quickly faltered not because of gachaslop mobile games (which only gained mainstream traction years later btw) but due to Sony's own abandonment.Sony failed to nurture its handheld with the same vigor it applied to the Ps3 and PS4, treating the vita as a secondary experiment rather than a flagship product, they even shilled the fact you could use it as a wii u gamepad for remote play more than the actual games on the fucking thing.This lack of internal support proved fatal through minimal first-party investment, inconsistent software updates, and poor marketing.Nintendo flooded the 3DS with mario, zelda, and pokémon exclusives, sony released a trickle of vita-specific titles that were just ports or outsourced shovelware instead of committing major studios like ND or Santa Monica to make actual exclusives, while the high launch price and proprietary memory cards alienated anyone actually wanting to buy one in the first place.This is made even worse that the vita suffered in full the sony backstabbing japan effect by devs being forced to go through an opaque and inconsistent approval process and all the bullshit that came with it, leading many to pivot away into multiplats at best, fully supporting the upcoming switch at worst.Gacha, by contrast, were irrelevant at the time, they exploded on smartphones long after the vita's sales had already collapsed, and the vita's library dried up to shit.Blaming gacha at best retroactively ignores how Sony's disengagement created a self-fulfilling prophecy of low sales and developer exodus, at worst it's blatant misinfo given the games that would start to get the ball rolling like azur lane wouldn't release until 2019, FEH and bandori in 2017, epic seven and dragalia lost in 2018, arknights also in 2019, and kicking off in full with genshin in 2020.By the way, the vita released in 2012, so if anything the switch was the one actually fighting an uphill battle against gacha, not the vita.
>>743452416Nobody bought the games that were made. Wipeout 2048 was excellent but sold so poorly that Studio Liverpool got shut down. When nobody bought Gravity Rush the console's fate was sealed.
>>743446008sony is fucked
>>743451806>doesn't realize the psp and vita were otaku consoles>doesn't realize gacha stole the otaku market back then>probably didn't even play kancolle back in the day when there were lotteries to even make accounts>probably doesn't even know what the fuck quiz rpg is>doesn't realize that the vita was put to rest in 2015 after sony got a taste of fgo money (that's when the first party support stopped)>doesn't realize this all predates the move to californiaIf you don't know shit about the topic at hand, you should keep your mouth shut. Imagine thinking your retarded western view of gachas means anything about the JP market when many of the highest grossing games in the JP market today are still from the 2012-2015 period and that's after their revenue has cratered. If you don't even know what Qooapp was, get the fuck outta here.
>>743445558subsidized by western paypigs
>>743445558the fuck is vita?
>>743453145>Chinkgook still pretending gacha is otaku and not normgroid slop.Your slop will never be japanese btw.
>>743453145>CHnigger doing history revisionism>again>while being a tourist that has played nothing but galgun and literally nothing else otakugrimola
>>743454872Life.
>>743456645It WAS, you stupid fucking zoomer. Mobage and Gree were nearly all otaku games, you can go down the list of what /mbgg/ was playing like Dragon Poker, Terra Battle, Project Tokyo Dolls, Uchihime, Alchemists Code, Soccer Spirits, and Tenka Hyakken and they were all full of fan service. The rhythm game gacha for the fucking Aria series was even using sex to sell and mobage's site was full of games for series like Majikoi.Genshin was when gachas got overtaken by normalfags and it's also when the free money ended because the production values required to make a game went up astronomically. That's why the same gachafag lifestyle doesn't cut it today, brand new gachas every 3 days wasn't an overexaggeration. That's how it used to be and they were all random genres too instead of everything being the same action RPG reskin. The entire gacha ecosystem mirrors gaming as a whole where it was for fucking loser nerds playing Brave Frontier, Puzzle & Dragons, and SiF with games constantly releasing and now it's all normalfags posting about how Genshin needs more people of color and how all the lolis are icky while they sit around waiting for something new to come out.
>>743445558why do consolefags care about the japanese market so muchyou're not japanese lil bro
