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Hatsune Miku storms to the top in Japan


The vocaloid songstress helps to sell 45,000 Vita consoles and 158,000 copies of her latest game in Japan, to give the console a handy lift of around 5% in total user base. As with previous hit titles the blip will be short-lived, and Sega's title is only the second Vita No.1, but it was the only Vita game on the chart, compared to seven PSP titles in the top 20.

Sega has said that digital sales made up another 10% but that development costs will make a sequel unlikely unless the game continues to sell well, something that will be grim news to Sony, trying to encourage more third party development.

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