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Possible new PlayStation Portal model pays homage to the Vita's OLED

While much of the focus on PlayStation's next steps is the PS6 and PS6 Portable , the two-year old PlayStation Portal could be getting a revamp according to those pesky internet rumours.  Update : Hints at pricing are around £/$250-299 for the new model, but everything remains deeply in rumours territory. Presumably the goal is to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners, something that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   The recent February  PlayStation State of Play  saw no announcement. But, PlayStation needs to make Portal more a core member of the PS5 family, rather than the distant cousin that most of its appearances suggest.  As the improvement in connectivity and streaming tech, proven by many gamers enjoying their PS5 or PlayStation Plus streamed content from around the world, an updated Portal Pro could be on the cards.  Possibly featuring a 120Hz display and an OLED screen in honour of the mighty Vita, that'd be coo...

Vita games tear up the Japanese chart

This week's media create chart is full of good news for the Vita, in a mad week with the first 13 games all being new entries. The Vita's best showing is Sword Art Online Lost Song selling 139K, One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 only 53K, Pro Yakyuu Spirit Baseball 2015 and Senran Kagura Estival Versus doing around 45K each at retail. Minecraft has a fine second week as a boxed product.

Threatrhythm Dragon Quest is the only 3DS game in a rare twist, but according to this teaser site, the Vita might be getting a Dragon Quest Heroes sequel soon.

1 Bloodborne (Sony) 152,657 PS4
2 Sword Art Online Lost Song (Bandai) 139,298 Vita
3 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (Bandai) 97,362 PS3
4 Threatrhythm Dragon Quest (Square) 76,858 3DS
5 Professional Baseball Spirits 2015 (Konami) 62,197 PS3
6 Sword Art Online Lost Song (Bandai) 55,090 PS3
7 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 54,308 Vita
8 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 46,693 PS4
9 Professional Baseball Spirits 2015 (Konami) 46,326 Vita
10 Senran Kagura Estival Versus (Marvelous) 44,584 Vita
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14 Minecraft (Sony) 21,069 Vita
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18 Digimon Cyber Story (Bandai) 13,365 Vita

We already knew Senran had sold over 100K, according to the company including digital sales, so the real question was how much hardware could Sony shift in response. That answer is only 27,000 units which while still pretty good in the state of the market, suggest Sony can't rely on these serial games to drive sales in future.


That's also compared to 31K in 2013 and 41K in 2014 for this week, which is all the more worrying. On the plus side, its still trouncing the New 3DS LL, but the PS4 has a firm and regular need now in Japan. Not all is well in PS4 land, Disgaea 5 turned up at the bottom of the chart, so expect a Vita version to help make up the numbers at some point.

Last week's numbers

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