Originally Posted by jgmo870

I don't think it's that smaller, just more segmented, if you look at the whole west and not just NA and EU separately. Two recent examples - P4G shipped 300k+ in Japan, and it did 700k+ worldwide, Dragon's Crown probably shipped close to 300-400k in Japan, and it did 800K worldwide.

Persona 4 Golden, I think, part of the reason it did so well is that it is essentially the Vita's killer app, and that had everything to do with its exclusivity. If it was available on the 3DS or PS3 then sales might have just been split + extra porting costs, but that's my baseless conjecture :P Dragon's Crown though is a good case for multiplatform development but you also have to consider that Sony went out of their way to make porting between PS3 and Vita relatively painless for developers and that's why you see that strategy happen more than say 3DS/Vita.