14 DAY TRIAL // Sony PlayStation Japan has released a brand-new celebratory video, commemorating the impressive sales figures of recent PlayStation platforms, announcing that the modern PlayStation family managed to sell over 100 million units worldwide.
The PlayStation 3 was highly successful, and the PlayStation 4 got off to a great start, surpassing its main competitor, Microsoft's all-in-one computer entertainment system, the Xbox One, by a rather large margin.
The last official number issued by Sony placed the PlayStation 4 at over 7 million units sold in April of this year, and combining that with the PlayStation 3's 80+ million units total, that puts the PlayStation Vita's global sales at somewhere over 10 million devices.
Although the Vita has underperformed, the handheld device still has some degree of momentum, and is not exactly dead in the water, but merely slow. Sony has even gone as far as to say that lately the mini-gaming device is doing better than expected, especially in North America.
Unfortunately, that's not nearly enough to threaten the reigning king of handheld gaming, Nintendo, whose most recent official figures put the Nintendo 2DS / 3DS family at somewhere over 42 million units sold worldwide, as of December 2013.
The newly released video addresses third-party peripheral and accessory manufacturers, that have been able to create licensed products for PlayStation platforms since 2009, aiming to offer a sense of perspective as to the magnitude of the PlayStation family market.
