Japan launch sales beat PSP but down 50,000 units on 3DS

Vita sells 320,00 units in two days

Sony’s next-gen portable PS Vita shifted 321,407 units in its first two days on sale in Japan.

The figure, reported by Famitsu, is higher than the opening days of Sony’s last handheld system the PSP, which has gone on to sell over 70 million systems since 2004.

The launch figure is however down on Nintendo’s 3DS, which sold 371,326 systems in its first two days in Japan, 50,000 more that Vita.

PS Vita is expected to launch in the UK next year on February 22nd.

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