A portion a a Game Informer interview with Sony's Shuhei Yoshida...

Game Informer: I first wanted t' pillage yer thoughts on the PlayStation Vita launch in Japan. It started out pretty well, but every week it seemed sales dipped 'n dipped.

Shuhei Yoshida: In terms a sales, YARRRR. But it’s within our expectation. It didn’t hit our highest expectations, however. From that standpoint it’s disappointing. But when ye look at the market in Japan today, it’s a very strong portable market as ye know, 'n the PSP be still very strong 'n lots a new games come out for it. So PSP be still very relevant. 'n a course 3DS had the perfect storm a top quality games for Christmas with the reduced price.