UK, Japanese sales slide in 2011

Oh yeah I bet the 3G AT&T plan is really going to help sell the PS Vita. Guess what mobile phones use 4G now. Keep the hope alive PS Vita owners Sony is going to need it when Nintendo releases the dual analog 3DS.

@garland51 You do realise Sony makes much much more than just the Playstation consoles right? I appreciate your views, but they dropped the price because the units became cheaper to produce and had been out for increasingly longer periods. I doubt it has much to do with the success of the PS1 and PS2. Truth is Sony's consoles had a lot more to offer last year than Microsoft's. That's the reason for the sales boost.

damn so the ps3 almost sold in 2011 what the 360 sold in its life time, but a million and half 360 in japan is a job well done for ms a foreign american company in japan

Romangelo partialy because the handhelds especially psp´s are very popular in Japan.

stupid handhelds era! why all of jRPG go to handhelds?

That is crazy how mario kart 7 was released in the last few weeks of december and it is the top selling game in japan. Here I know it will probably be the top 3ds game.

PS3 isn't really successful until it's in 1st place. Plus if everyone truly loved PS3's exclusives, many people would be buying PS3's right now & the PS3's userbase would've been more like PS2's.

@garland51 the only reason??? what the heck are you talking about. PS3 offers the best game titles. and their free online service. You sir are blind, PS3 is far more successful than the previous and current console. its just the sales that is the difference.

@Soothsayer42: The reason why PS3 have easily caught up to 360 in sales was because of the big success off of PS2 & that they have constantly done tons of price drops since launch just to get more people to buy a PS3 (which they got away with only because they had profits from both PS1 & PS2 to help back them up on losses). Now, their profits are gone, & I highly doubt that they could do the same for either Vita or PS4, especially that the PS3 isn't as successful as the PS1 or PS2.

@garland51 The Japanese doesn't 'hate' the 360. They just prefer the PS3 cause most of their games (JRPG's) is on PS3. The PS3 leads in Asia,Europe while the 360 still leading by a huge scale in Northern America. Considering the fact that the PS3 is catching up very fast with just a difference in North America, and just a 4 million in difference. Compare it to 2008-2009 where 360 leads in dual digits. If you check Vgcharts.com, you'll see that PS3 leads every Week in global sales.

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@DCUItrapro PS3 dominates in Asia, a close competition in Europe(where PS3 still leads) and 360 leads in Northern America.

Well Its end for pspvita lot gd games pp didnt want . 3DS sold a lot know well done for nindendo and well done for ps3 again i guess sony should stick to consles what they do best.

@megakick that doesn't necessary mean 3DS outsold PSV, remember this is 2011 chart. Vita was released in mid-december whereas 3DS released in march, and to be honest Vita may actually do pretty well in long term. Don't be fooled by the figures, you gonna digest the information first.

Sadly and strangely, UK hardware sales are never released.

Umm.. If I'm on Gamespot.co.uk why is there a sales breakdown for Japan but not the UK? Random :?

@ PSR8000 360 was never going to out sell ps3 in Japan mate, but its been outselling it in other regions for the past 2/3 years or so if I am right, sadly Microsoft is very poorly received over in Japan for some strange reason

no uk charts/analysis to show? just Japan? great

@zeemonster66 I think it's because whilst a small part of the EU, the UK is still the biggest European market for video games.

wtf uk sales why not europe sales uk is very small in europe

Shame about the 360 being bottom. I thought they'd outsold the PS3 in previous years. I'm happy nintendo are at the top though. With the news and stuff saying it wasn't doing to well over here, made me worry that things were going down hill for nintendo again. Thankfully not though :)

Mario Kart 7's performance is very impressive. The idea that it became the most sold game in Japan in 2011 and it only had one month to do it gives much credit to it. Kudos Nintendo.

Good to know the top 2 are mario games which only debuted 1 or 2 months earlier.

Not surprised to see Monster Hunter on the list.

Wii Party still selling? I know people like the extra controller, But you would think Wii Play Motion would be in the 10th place spot in Japan. Extra controller with a pack in game does sell still after all this time?

Mario Kart 7 sold a lot so fast. O:

NICE!

@HaloPimp978 : Yes, I wish they localize Xillia too, but let's make Graces f a success before, shall we? ;)

@phoenixgaiangel I agree wished Xilla sold more than XIII-2. Hopefully Xillia will be announced for 2012 for US release.

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@Soothsayer42 & @zzamaro: Who's honestly surprised by this, really? Japan hated the Xbox in general ever since last generation.

A decline of 10% doesn't really mean much. The video game market is still huge.

@thingta42 News flash buddy, those handhelds are all really the same generation.

A shame Tales of Xillia didn't sell more than FFXIII-2. :( Excellent sales nonetheless. :)

@Overminer sure nintendo decreased support for the ds ... but still its somewhat weird .... i mean after a year of the original DS the GBA had strong legs in 2005 its just wierd :S

3DS > PSP > DS > VITA. That how i see it. I just see no reason at all to buy a Vita. when im still currently playing and buying games for my psp. Which i think is still better than the DS. The 3DS Though im deffently gonna buy. I only ever have one handeld per generation and im gonna get the 3DS. just waiting for a duel angalog version though.

all except for 360 sales :lol: are really good numbers

Heh, not bad games, FFXIII-2, FFT-0, ToX, MK7, SM3DL, and both MH are pretty good games from what I have been playing from them. But the sales numbers just don't seem right.

@FatmanAB good news for sony, yes, but Nintendo's decreased support of the ds to push the 3ds make this no surprise

Lol @ 360 sales :lol:

@megakick way to go.. this is the annual chart. Vita is just released two weeks ago. Duhh?

good to see that Nintendo is dominating at the moment.this way they could make the Wii-U better before launch.

WOW 3DS is kicking PS vita ARSE! I will buy it when Nintendo releases the duel analog model. Pretty sad the PSP and DS demolished the PS Vita as well. Back to the drawing board Sony.

PSP > DS ...... impressive !!

Final Fantasy XIII-2 sales are quite disappointing as the previous game sold at least 1.9 million in Japan two years back. Monster Hunter 3G will eventually join Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land among the 3DS "platinum" club by selling at least one million copies, and perhaps out-sell the original Wii version. Low Vita sales due in part to a lack of "must-buy" software for the Japanese market.