this is interesting to me. I remember hearing the Vita outsold the Wii U which is at 13.5 million by most sources and in 2021 a former employee at Sony claimed the Vita was around 17 million in sales. I do wish Sony would officially update their numbers on the IR page tho.
For me, it's simple: we now officially know that :Yep. But to be a bit more specific PSP was exactly 82.52M, so PS Vita would be 11.69M until 22 July 2018.
It's worth remembering that like PS4, PS Vita got discontinued later than this date. In case of Vita March 1, 2019, so it sold a bit more than this. I'd say pretty likely somewhere around 12-14M aprox, maybe a bit more. 17M could be possible.
I hate when Sony does this stuff of merging sales of different platforms or not reporting them, I'd prefer to have more transparency.
Sony Interactive Entertainment Introduces “PlayStation®4 Pro 500 Million Limited Edition”
August 9, 2018 – Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) today announced that it will introduce a specially designed PlayStation®4 Pro (PS4™Pro) “PlayStation®4 Pro 500 Million Limited Edition” (HDD 2TB) from August 24, 2018, and will be available at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of 49,980...
sonyinteractive.com
"With PlayStation® (PS) hardware sell through surpassing 525.3 million units worldwide".
So from this, if we base ourselves on the figures which are not up to date
Business Data & Sales
Sony Interactive Entertainment offers its business and sales information for those seeking to understand our sales wins.
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PS1: 102.4M
PS2: 155M
PSP: 76.4M
PS3: 87.4M
PS4: 81.2M
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Total: 502.40 million sold [as at 22 July 2018]
And that would put the PSVita at 22.9 million, which is of course impossible (it's not even certain that the Vita has done more than the Wii U (13.56), so ~23M lol).
Now if you take the updated figures, it's obviously more logical and in line with the 525.3 million announced:
PS1: 102.49M
PS2: 160M
PSP: 82.5M
PS3: 87.4M
PS4: 81.2M
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Total: 513.59 million sold [as at 22 July 2018]
The PSVita ends up at 11.71 million, which is much more realistic and in line with its poor performance, which we already suspected at the time.
PSV must have ended up with 13-14 million at best, more than this I don't really believe it.