Are Vita games really still selling?

It is easy to imagine Vita game sales being the odd one or two copies in a second-hand store and some random PSN purchases. Sure, most new games are doing a few hundred, maybe 1-2,000 copies, according to these numbers and the developers still heroically bringing ports and code our way.

But the big games due to their name or quality are still attracting decent numbers for a "retired" machine. Probably why their prices are mostly on the high side on PSN, suggesting all those misses have probably turned a tidy profit over the years.

According to GameStats, with figures based on the PSN leak and current trophy data, there's still plenty of activity - whether people are picking up a rare new Vita or second-hand unit which they register with their PSN. Of course, the numbers are rounded and may be a little off reality, but this is as close as we'll get to official data.

Here's a list sorted by new users, showing plenty of people on #VitaIsland, with some 7.3 million active Vita users with PSN accounts. and 19 games that have sold over a million. But the history is purely nostalgia, the new data shows developers can still generate sales on an interesting game and that people will buy if there's enough of a community to show interest.

Perhaps most annoyingly among the stats, if nearly 10 million played Welcome Park, why didn't that game/tutorial have easy social sharing to help people promote their new Vita, links to other games and apps to help show off other features.

Have a play with the numbers and see where your favourite games, but mostly never ever let anyone tell you the Vita is dead!