Tokyo: Sony has sold 321,400 PlayStation Vitas in Japan in its first two days of sales over the weekend.
This is a full 50,000 units short of Nintendo 3DS sales, which reached 371,000 in its first two days.
The company will be hoping it can maintain the strong sales figures in the face of growing competition from iOS and Android devices.
With Sony’s new PlayStation Vita portable gaming device going on sale in Japan last Saturday, executives at the company will have been waiting nervously for news of sales figures for its opening weekend.
Sales of the 3DS sagged just weeks after the launch forcing Nintendo to slash its price, curbing the companies profit outlook for the year.
Sony is offering 24 games for the Vita at launch, in hopes this will prevent sales dropping off after the initial excitement.
The Vita will be launched in the US and Europe in February.
Sony’s previous portable game device, the PS Portable, sold 166,000 units on the first day of sales in 2004 and has sold 73 million units to date.
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