Wii U vs PSV – VGChartz Gap Charts – June 2016 Update - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 July 2016 / 61,939 ViewsThe VGChartz Gap charts are updated monthly and each article focuses on a different gap chart. The charts include comparisons between the 7th generation and 8th generation platforms, as well as comparisons within the 8th generation. All sales are worldwide, unless otherwise stated.
Wii U Vs. PlayStation Vita Global:
Gap change in latest month: 13,429 – PSV
Gap change over last 12 months: 711,392 – Wii U
Total Lead: 989,608 – PSV
Wii U Total Sales: 13,139,054
PSV Total Sales: 14,128,662
In the latest month the Wii U fell behind when compared to the PlayStation Vita by 14,429 units. In the last 12 months the Wii U has closed the gap by 711,392 units. The PlayStation Vita currently leads by 989,608 units.
The PlayStation Vita first launched in December 2011, while the Wii U launched in November 2012. The PlayStation Vita has sold 14.13 million units, while the Wii U has sold 13.14 million units.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Unfortunately, with the WiiU being phased out soon, it doesn't look like the gap will ever close. Not like it'd matter or anything, but every little victory counts when consoles sell this low :S
Yeah, its both a good and bad thing really that the Vita will be the last Sony handheld for some time, while it's a shame to think there might not be another Playstation portable in the works the Vita has no real short of horsepower for the modest number of games which still find there way to the platform every month.
And yeah... no replacement on the horizon means people are buying it at a steady rate with no fear the system will become obsolete... more so haha, I think there was maybe 1 week in 2016 so far where the Wii-U outsold the Vita and that isn't likely to change with the NX on the way.
COKTOE, what the heck are you talking about?
William, I love that you continue to run this chart every time the numbers update :D
Still great to see them when you do have the ammo to make them and given the number of comments and almost 17k views this has it's worth the time to make them!
Looks like the vita will win this battle. Not many thought it would but it's held out.
This is also with Wii U over tracked on vgchartz since its shipments total 13.02M as of June 30th..
There's a small group who keep shouting about the vita being overtracked but conveniently ignore the fact that the Wii U is 100% for sure overtracked.
Pfffff....
Just like those who are shouting about the splatoon overtracking but no words for psv overtracking, eh?
Okay, 300k overtracking is not the same with 1.5-2.5m...
P.s Is Your provocative post pertaining to me ( taking into account your ironic response to me in another comment here) ?
Because, excuse me but I have mentioned that wii u is overtracked...
Everythings overtracked woooo!
So with Wii U overtracked and psv still selling steadily in Japan vita is basically guaranteed to win this battle even if taks theories hold true.
I wish the Vita and Wii U were selling better than they are right now. They are both cool systems imo.
Soon this article will pass the number of views that either the Vita or Wii-U had in sales during the past week recorded on VGChartz. Impressively controversial topic! :D
Kind of ironic how people upvote the comments of WiiU being overtracked while downvoting the ones about Vita, despite the fact that wiiu is only 300k overtracked while PSV may easily be 2m overtracked even counting PSTV.
Haha calm down. I've a comment with 5 down votes and you won't see me bemoaning it. It's little a digital impression on a digital forum. Don't get so worked up over it.
Feels like you are bemoaning it right now. I just said it was ironic.
No I was giggling as I read your comment. The fact you made a comment over the likes / dislikes tells me it bothers you. Don't take it so seriously. It's just a meaningless voting system!
If only those Vita numbers were real.
Just wish to get a new psv shipments estimate since ioi has said me that he will adjust it down if the next update still shows huge surplus! Last estimate was 9.78m as of 2014 and vgc had psv at 9.3m then....
However, it had been adjusted up by about 2m sometime in 2015 ( due to some sales news, which seems that there were misinterpreted ) , wrongly based on evidence ( long story to post it here ), which is sad because vgc may had psv numbers right before that.
Lol the Wii U is also over tracked. When all is said and done the vita will lead as it's going to sell a couple of more million in Japan :)
LOL LOL LOL
Why the lol? Have you not seen that I have cited this below?
Lol because you've put so much effort into this battle over the years when in reality vita sells more in the end.
The Wii U final shipment is known. With Vita's steady Japanese sales for a couple of more years and a trickle in the west it's pretty much guaranteed to sell more.
It ain't finishing last. That accolade goes to the Wii U.
And if only everything you posted wasn't obscenely biased to Nintendo :D
Pot calling the kettle black moment.
The double irony ^^
Not rally since I;m not the one calling the kettle black within this article, I am actually pointing out the difference right here, unless you want to count yourself within the irony altogether.
Lol you just don't get it.
Except I don't just shit all over everything that's not Sony. If Nintendo does something great, I'll give it credit where it is due. Case in point, Pokémon GO, Breath of the Wild, Smash, etc. Likewise with Microsoft, it's just that... Well, they haven't done anything good (for what I want) except backwards compatibility, cross game chat, and the OG Xbox.
And the irony, Chazore, is that you are pointing this out when you're so unabashedly Pro-PC that you'd say things like "consoles don't need exclusives, but PC can still have them". The flip side is that i actually argued FOR Xbox One having exclusives all the way up until Microsoft essentially said "we don't care what happens to our console anymore, it's a PC peripheral."
Typical of you Azuren lol.Despite the fact i own a 3DS and I'm looking forward to the NX but yeah sure label me like you and the frog do to fit your own little agendas and your downvote squad.
I actually can't upvote or downvote, because the browser on my phone won't register them.
Supporting Nintendo is also a fairly common thing among PC gamers... Most PC gaming forums will tell you that you only need a PC and a 3DS. So I don't really need to label you, man, you do it yourself.
Though, most of us do. Goodnightmoon labels himself a hardcore Nintendo fan with a strong dislike of non-Nintendo consoles through his actions. I label myself a devoted PlayStation fan with a distaste for Xbox through my actions. We can pretend we're different things, and buy all of these other platforms... But we know what we are.
You're just painting the picture to suit your own view Azuren, saying that "oh that's a common fact of a thing PC users always say", have you heard yourself at all?.
I grew up with Sega and Nintendo, why can't I like Nintendo products, why can't I desire to own an NX and own a 3DS?.
You label yourself in the process dude with the way you go about labeling others and then going on with "that's a common thing X group says". You aren't above the other groups let alone outside them either.
You dislike Xbox, I liked Xbox last gen but I don't this gen due to the actions MS has made with both the console and Windows OS. I know who I am.
You can paint me all you want but I know I like what I like but calling the kettle black doesn't make for a good argument, nor does painting PC users as vile all the time because I know you d, it's no different from Devilshark and his outward hate for Nintendo and it's fans.
I spent half of my gaming life playing on non-Nintendo devices, in fact I didn't had a Nintendo console until I was like 13-14, but I was playing Playstation daily since I was 6, just because I don't think Ps4 is anything special doesn't mean I hate non-Nintendo consoles, I just ignore them because I get all their games on PC now, last gen I liked x360 at first and Ps3 at last, this gen I just don't, not yet at least, they are only weak PCs with paid online and few good exclusives, you don't need to be a Nintendo fanboy to think about it like me at all.
@Chazore: I'm not painting a picture, I'm pointing out that you are saying pretty much everything every PC gamer who comes through my store says. No one said you can't like Nintendo product or that is wrong. You just keep trying to differentiate yourself from the standard PC gamer, and the result is just continuing to further solidify that image. I'm not painting you; you are.
@Goodnightmoon: You don't seem to be very open to liking either of them, what with most of your forum posts (that I see, anyway) consisting of either praising Nintendo or shitting on Xbox/PlayStation.
Sorry but Charoze is right, you paint the picture that suits your view, I do way more than that is this forums, you only want to see that because reasons, and you must be blind because I have NEVER, and I would say it again, n-e-v-e-r, said anything wrong about xbo in any thread of this forums, never. The only reason I manifested without touch my honest opinions about Ps4 is because how ridiculously overrated since launch is and how arrogant their fans have been this gen, is specially hilarious when xbo and Ps4 shared the 99.5% of the same exact games yet the popular narrative here was that Ps4 is amazing, epic, saviour of videogames but XBO is a fucking shit, worst thing ever, things like that make me express my worst opinions about it without caring if someone is ofended, but that still barely represents the 2% of what I post here.
from wikipedia: PS4 has 1157 games as of June 16, 2016 Exclusive = 106, Console exclusive = 341 (meaning not on xbox)
logic from a nintendo fan 99.5% the same games^^
Most of them generic indies, don't fool yourself, a year ago xbo and Ps4 shared almost the same exact library exept for very few relevant exclusives.
Lol so you just admitted to hating ps4 because it's so successful and it's fans act now the way Nintendo fans did last gen.
Chazore you were a Nintendo / Sega fan. No wonder you hate Sony. They're basically the reason you went off to PC. Sony took your Nintendo 3Rd party support and ended Sega. It all makes sense now!
No I honestly don't like it, but I may have more touch while expressing why I don't like it or even don't say nothing at all if there wasn't for people like you, one thing is rivalry, but the constant desire of watching the rest fall and die is another story, to get pleasure from that is kind of disgusting. And now you can downvote me every time you want, we have been seeing this for years now on VGC and you have been pretty active on the cause.
Lol I don't actively want Nintendo to fail. I want Playstation to succeed. It's the best console and is keeping console gaming alive this gen. It's also the platform that gives me all my gaming joy. So it's obvious why I want it to succeed.
You sound frustrated Nintendo haven't with the home console front but you shouldn't take those frustrations out on me.
You fool nobody. Good showcase of your passive aggressive style in the last sentence btw, you have caused quite a bit bans with those skills to get people mad, hope you are proud.
Exactly, I fool nobody. I just say it as it is. I really want and enjoy seeing Playstation do so well. It's my platform and I want it healthy.
I wish Nintendo well and don't want them to fail. Not my problem if people are paranoid that I do. That's their prerogative, but I've never once said I want Nintendo to fail. Instead I've said quite the opposite.
Meanwhile someone on this very thread, wants Sony gone from making consoles themselves. And yet you point the finger at me!
And we're back to the old those games don't count and these type of games don't count. We have gamer here who hate and disregard and entire types of games because of reasons. Logic? common sense? if you are out there please come over here we need your help.
The Vita is overtracked
Let me guess, would it be overtracked by 989,609 units?
Worst vgc error ever! Vgc hardly ever does mistakes to such an extent...
The sad thing is that if vgc had avoided the 2m adjustment up ( ioi made erroneous inferences based on some sales news about psv ) back in 2015, which inflated the tracking through the year, psv sales could be right now...
just thought I'd mention for the sake of debate that while the Vita may be a bit ahead (not sure if its overtracked), its sold considerably less software than the Wii U. Both are pretty big disappointments though in terms of hardware pushed
It's easy for WiiU to have higher software numbers. All the fans buy the same old first party games. At least the Vita has a lot more variety.
@ Dyllyo Or maybe...the games are just better and fun?
OP: Yeah, both are pitiful but PSV is even more pitiful considering the fact that it's a handheld that's being sold for considerably less than the Wii U and currently being pitted against the Wii U.
I would like to argue that practically everything people want on the Vita is either digital only our so hard to find that people just settle for the digital versions. Most of the Vita's best software are also Classic titles, which aren't tracked at all.
@Ljink96: It's only $70 less, and isn't even supported by the manufacturer anymore. And like I like, most of the sales it has aren't tracked at all due to their digital nature. So, no; it's more pathetic that the Wii U hasn't been able to attain a lead.
@Mountaindewslave - when it comes to the Wii-U what % of game sales would you imagine are Physical sales (which are tracked here) in comparison to how many titles on the Vita are sold digitally only or like in some area's where digital is the only real option to buy games for that system considering Game stores lack of faith in individual titles to sell.
I think this would be like looking at the game sales of a title on the PC which are tracked here and thinking that that was a good indication of the actual sales figure on that platform.
@Aruzen
It's only 70$ more! That's still $70! And like I said, having more software leads to more hardware sales. Currently only Nintendo is really supporting the Wii U and it's dying. What we SHOULD be comparing is Wii U vs. PS4 vs. Xbox One and PSV to 3DS. ACTUAL COMPETITORS. Compare apples to apples maybe...
And even so, with the terrible news surrounding the Wii U, it's sad that Vita can't gain a measurable lead. It costs less, has more and frequent software support, has numerous Dragon Quest games on it, tons of JRPGS, and it's a handheld. It should have blown up in Japan but 3DS is too busy taking its spotlight.
Right and the PS4 is currently $100 more than XB1, and it is still wrecking it. And William DOES compare apples to apples, but he also compares really close races, like Vita vs Wii U.
And no, it's sad that Wii U is any degree behind the Vita, since the Vita has been forsaken by its manufacturer and Wii U still receives special treatment from Nintendo. Vita is in a pathetic state, and the Wii U is in an even more pathetic state.
What exactly is more pathetic? A console that is supported by its manufacturer yet ignored by gamers or a console that is ignored by its manufacturer yet is more praised than the other?
who is pathetic?
Nowadays more people have consoles, since the 360 and PS3 dropped in price, and of course some people buy PS4s and Xbox Ones. It's just not as common as other countries I assume, because of the high taxes and living costs, but gaming still exists! Just not Nintendo :(
Woops wrong comment lol.
considering that Vita launched a year earlier, it failed even more than WiiU
Another way to look at it is that the vita had s a longer lifespan.
The Vita is more popular than any Nintendo console ever was here in Israel (besides the Wii I guess). It's Sony/MS heaven here :S
The Vita is more popular than any Nintendo console ever was here in Israel (besides the Wii I guess). It's Sony/MS heaven here :S
And how big is this popularity that vita has? Big enough to compensate the abismal NA sales
neither have done well
MohammadBadir with all the time I've lived in Palestine and Israel, most gaming devices are practically nonexistent. Games and consoles are ridiculously high. 3DS/Vita games hovered around 250-300+ shekels for the physical version. Won't even get started on the prices for consoles there
MohammadBadir with all the time I've lived in Palestine and Israel, most gaming devices are practically nonexistent. Games and consoles are ridiculously high. 3DS/Vita games hovered around 250-300+ shekels for the physical version. Won't even get started on the prices for consoles there
Nowadays more people have consoles, since the 360 and PS3 dropped in price, and of course some people buy PS4s and Xbox Ones. It's just not as common as other countries I assume, because of the high taxes and living costs, but gaming still exists! Just not Nintendo :(
I think I've paid 600$ for my 3DS XL. I only order games or buy them digitally.