With only one day left to go for launch time, Andriasang reports that Sony has possibly shipped around 700,000 Playstation Vita units to Japanese retailers. It was originally 500,000 but in order to meet pre-order demand, an additional 200,000 was added for shipment. A Select number of retailers reportedly say were available to buy on launch day without one, following the shipment increase.
Playstation Vita releases tomorrow in Japan, December 17th 2011. The UK, US and Europe will get it in February 22nd, 2012 along with Canada for the Wi-Fi model only - Sony has reportedly not announced a release date for the 3G model in that region.