With Eurogamer publishing a damning report yesterday on Nintendo's hardware sales figures, according to VGChartz, Sony's PS Vita has finally outsold Nintendo's Wii U worldwide, with the figures stated below:
14.30m - Sony PS Vita
13.36m - Nintendo Wii U
It's no secret that both hardware platforms have struggled since launch. But what's interesting is that despite Sony having not actively supported its handheld with first party titles since October 2015, the PS Vita still enjoys third-party support, and has a healthy amount of physical releases in the West to this day - with Limited Run Games, PQube and Marvelous regularly putting out games on a semi regular basis. In contrast however, the Wii U only has 2 titles coming out this year (not counting Nintendo Selects re-releases) - with Paper Mario: Color Splash and Skylanders Imaginators padding out a ridiculously barren release schedule.
That's a pretty shameful release schedule, regardless of how one looks at it. So with Nintendo's lack of momentum taken into account, it will be interesting to see as to whether the company is able to turn things around with its forthcoming hybrid NX next year - although I personally doubt it, given the lack of consumer mind-share the company curren...