Sales of the PS Vita have increased in the UK by 163% following the launch of the PlayStation 4 last year.

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Undoubtedly the festive period will have played a factor, but Sony is partly attributing this to the release of the new console.Fergal Gara, the MD of Sony UK & Ireland, told IGN, “There was a 163% uplift in PS Vita sales post PS4 launch.“A significant number of PS Vita purchasers in the UK indicated that Remote Play was their reason for purchase, and we are subsequently seeing lots of these new PS Vita users connecting to PS4 with this feature.”Earlier the week, Sony announced it would be bringing the redesigned Vita model, previously only available in Japan, to the UK on February 7th, 2014.You can read more from our interview with Gara here , in which he talks about the company's strategy for the PS Vita, or watch the redesigned handheld being unboxed below:

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