Vita sells 320,000 in two days

OK, I'm confused. Vita sells through roughly 65% of the initial shipment in the first 2 days (including the busy weekend buying period) and has a further 200,000 extra units in waiting and Enterbrain predicts they sell 1.4 million total in the first week? I really hope they meant first month.

1.4 million week 1 would put it at 3 times the amount as the 3DS did last February week 1 yet 3DS did better than Vita in the first 2 days. Somebody might want to reconsider their prediction models.

Posted:A year ago

Well, it certainly seems unlikely that they're going to sell through twice as many units as they shipped in the first week...

Posted:A year ago

Well, just watch japan I guess, its only the first week. They drop stuff quick, people can still return units. Hardware is impressive but is it worth of portable gaming.

Posted:A year ago

As someone who works for one of the major uk retailers as a product which does not effectively support retail or offer much in major profits i can't understand how it is going to survive if the major retailers aren't going to have a reason to offer it major support.

Have to wait and see but i'm not holding my breath.

Posted:A year ago

Why does it not support retail? The games still come in physical SKUs as well as download, it's not like the GO, and with our bandwidth and download limits (and the stupid memory card prices), that will be the major way people buy AAAs for the Vita for the forseeable.

Posted:A year ago

@John Bye: that estimate includes lost sales from illegal downloads o.O

Posted:A year ago

@Jimmy Web, you might not take into account that the end of the week for sales of the Vita will include the 24th and 25th of December, while Japan doesn't celebrate Christmas the same way we do they do follow the gift giving and the major marketing promotions that the holiday has so in those two days seems very likely that the Japanese will give the newest game console as present to family and friends.

Posted:A year ago

@ Germán Vázquez, While they do give gifts they tend to give small gifts, and massive hardware bumps over the holidays in Japan do not exist (only small ones). Enterbrain is off their rocker. Vita will sell less than half of their predicted total for the week. Even those that do give hardware are going to give their friends and family the (now much cheaper) 3DS with Monster Hunter over a Vita which isn't launching with a single franchise capable of selling a million units in Japan.

Posted:A year ago

German, yes, it will bump up for this week but with 500,000 - 700,000 in shipments, how can they sell twice what is allocated?

And the holiday bump might produce a sales increase of 3 times normal levels but only in existing hardware. It will not give 3 times the bump of another highly anticipated console's launch period.

Posted:A year ago

For something which is supposed to have physcial sku's there is no confirmation on this, doesn't help with the current PSP setting a great example to current console trends. The console is coming out in february and i still can't name 5 games which are coming out for launch, now i can look online but to be honest sony should be trying to tempt people in store by now.

Posted:A year ago

"For something which is supposed to have physcial sku's there is no confirmation on this"

Would an Amazon listing for a physical SKU count as confirmation?

[link url=http://www.amazon.com/LittleBigPlanet-PlayStation-Vita/dp/B0050SW2NA/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1324458539&sr=1-3
]http://www.amazon.com/LittleBigPlanet-Pl...[/link]

Or the article here recently tjat gave prices for both digital and physical copies?

I'd say just Uncharted, Little Big Planet and I believe Wipeout at launch is a pretty strong line up, I can't name another 2, (Ridge Racer I think, not sure) but most people don't buy 5 games in one go. Uncharted is possibly the most high profile launch title I've seen, allowing for the fact that very few had heard of Halo until the original Xbox was in stores. Vita has challenges for sure, but a launch line up is not one of them, especially compared to March's 3DS launch.

Posted:A year ago

I don't think vita can repeat what 3ds did, even with a "better" launch lineup. If price was a major issue back then it definitely is now as well. Also we need to keep in mind that 3DS apart from the price at that point, had a full scale war against it by certain media, and the Fukushima tragedy, not to mention the missing features... 3ds at that time, with nearly everything going against it, still did better than vita. Let's wait and see how things will turn out, but i somehow doubt that vita will manage to do what psp failed to do so many times. Even on the software side, at least as far as Japan is concerned but also world wide, 3DS is easily the better choice right now!

Posted:A year ago

Ben - "As someone who works for one of the major uk retailers .. product does not effectively support retail .. no confirmation on [physical skus] .. i still can't name 5 games which are coming out for launch"

o_O

Posted:A year ago