Games for the new handheld console PlayStation Vita from Sony took the top lines of the English sales charts, writes portal Eurogamer .
In the first place was the action adventure Uncharted: Golden Abyss . He deposed leader last week, Fighting UFC Undisputed 3 for PS3 and Xbox 360, which took third place. For the latest release of the Uncharted series follows football simulator FIFA Football for PS Vita. Thus, FIFA 12 has fallen from second to fourth place.
Another novelty - restart the famous series Syndicate (2012) - made its debut in the British charts only in seventh position, giving way platformer Rayman Origins (5th place) and the sports game Mario & Sonic at the London Olympics (6th place).
Golden Abyss and FIFA Football accounted for 50% of all sales of software for the console. The remaining 50% were for the remaining 21 games of the starting lineup. We also learned that 79% of English PS Vita owners prefer a cheaper model without 3G- module.
PlayStation Vita went on sale in America and Europe, 22 February 2012. In Japan the console was launched on 17 December 2011 and has sold 325,000 units in the first two days. Since then, the financial performance of the device continued to fall, reaching record lows during the ninth week (February 8 - February 15, 2012), when it was sold just 19,000 consoles. Precise data on the PS Vita sales in America and Europe at this time was not announced.
