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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 to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   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 cool. Assuming the 120HZ streaming is solid, an OLED would be the more welcome addition, especially with the latest generation of technology offering QD-OLED (Quantum Dot-OLED), WOLED (White-OLED) and other buzzy titles for smarter display.  Whatever ...

How successful are new PSN releases?

Okay, since Sony doesn't do sales figures, and forbids developers from revealing them, and neither does the UK's ChartTrack or any other chart company, except in Japan, here's a quick hack at some PSN data.

Just for fun, take the number of reviews (the five star rating game buyers tick on PSN) and divide by the number of days on sale for the latest new releases. That gives us a glimpse of what's popular. Please note, I am not a statistician! And, remember folks, please rate your PSN purchases!

I'll dig around to find a typical digital vs physical sales ratio, along with a "people who rate games" percentage, and then we should get some rough sales figures. If anyone knows or has a link to these figures, do let me know!


Apart from the staggering success for Digimon, respect goes to Croixleur Sigma for its performance. Otherwise it seems big brands do only modestly better than some of the better indies.

Of course, I'm not listing the star rating here, while Blast 'Em Bunnies looks pretty good, it only gets a 2.5 star average, so buyer beware!

For reference, Digimon has 825 ratings (which I'm praying don't include the PS4 version) and the brand new Samurai Warriors has just the 2.

Doing the same for the Vita PSN's current top seller list, Minecraft goes way off the chart, so nothing else shows up. If I trim it back (add another 100 for its actual popularity), we get Fez and Digimon in hot pursuit with games going back to the Vita's early days showing various legs:


To be continued:

From this base, I can figure out:
  • Updated ratings per week to show continued popularity vs died-on-launch.
  • Rough sales figures based on a little maths.
  • Trends and omens.
  • How cross I should be that I didn't start counting ratings when Sony added them to PSN!
  • Do these numbers represent EU sales only or go across western PSN stores? 

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