Why the PS Vita sales drop is not something to worry about

It seems the PS Vita sold around 325,000 units during the first week (which meant just two days), while during the second full week the handheld recorded sales of just 72,000 units. Of course, many major websites are already estimating disastrous sales for the US launch next year, demanding a price cut. It’s even on Forbes and this kind of mass hysteria is spreading fast. Let’s see if it’s really the moment to worry or it’s just that time of the year when news are scarce and everyone tries to squeeze something out of anything.

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Published on December 30, 2011 23:59.
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PS Vita Sold 321K Units First Week

It seems that PS Vita sold 321,407 units during its first two days of sales in Japan. As you may already know, I have estimated PS Vita launch sales (worldwide) to sum up around 1.5-1.8 mil. units. Here’s a small piece from the original post which you can find right here

We have an estimate between 1.5 mil. and 1.8 mil. units (worldwide launches combined), without considering Sony’s unique selling proposition I was mentioning earlier (the big line-up of titles). Depending on the demand for those titles, many of which are spin-offs for successful PS3 games, the demand for PS Vita could be even higher. Of course, as Amazon already confirmed, demand is higher for the Wi-Fi only version, so this allows new owners to save 50USD or even spend them for one more game. If new PS Vita owners will buy an average of 3 games (which is better than what 3DS owners did, given PS Vita’s launch line-up), then we can estimate software sales at launch between 4.5 mil. and 5.4 mil. units.

Published on December 20, 2011 16:47.
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