Sony has sole 1.2 million PS Vitas worldwide, a earnest start for a enormous handheld console. It’s only over dual months given a Vita went on sale in Japan, and a week given us Brits were means to cocktail to a internal games mart and collect one up.

There’s no meaningful how most we contributed to a sum sales, as Sony didn’t mangle down a total by region. But it did acknowledge a European and US launches helped a Vita “exceed expectations”. It’s still early days, yet maybe intelligent phones haven’t killed a handheld console after all.

The Vita overwhelmed down in a UK final week, with Asda undercutting everybody else, charging only £197 for a Wi-Fi-only version. A 21-year-old from Uxbridge was a initial Brit to collect one up. It went on sale in Japan only before Christmas, and shifted 321,400 units in a initial dual days — yet that lagged rather behind a Nintendo 3DS, that managed 370,000 in a initial 48 hours.

Is 1 million units (and counting) enough? Game studios are famously conservative, requiring what they see as guaranteed sales of millions of copies before they’ll dedicate to a outrageous responsibility of producing a game. With 60 million PS3s sold, that’s a vast user bottom to sell games to.

Let’s contend a Vita sells 5 million this year — that’s great, yet it’s still a flattering niche system. So we’re expected to see a lot of ports of games already combined for a home consoles. And if you’ve bought a £40 diversion for your PS3, are we going to buy a same one for £30 on your Vita?

The Vita’s Japanese launch was injured with some inadequate hardware, with some consoles carrying stains on a screens, and others refusing to boot. The UK launch was comparatively glitch-free, yet there is a slight program issue. And a Facebook app was pulled, yet that was Facebook’s fault, according to Sony.

The Vita packs a 5-inch touchscreen, yet there’s a hold row on a back, that adds even some-more controls. That’s along with a screen, dual ride sticks, buttons and a d-pad. It is flattering vast compared to phones though, and games are a lot some-more expensive. The battery isn’t shining either. You can also stream PlayStation 3 games to a Vita but switching on a TV, yet they won’t be a full versions.

Did we buy a PS Vita? What do we make of it? Do we consider it’ll sell adequate to make it a colourful games platform? Let me know in a comments below, or on a Facebook page.