These graphs are more representative. Anyway Vita had an ok start, especially with far stronger competition on this market than in 2004 and other conditions like expensive memory cards and only two really mass-appealing games: Uncharted and FIFA, but it will steadily falling up until some big releases/announcements and things like price cut in foreseeable future. But this thing isn't "doomed" and will perform well over its lifetime alongside 3DS, I'm sure. And upcoming E3 is going to be really hot for Vita as well as for everything else - we are coming closer to the next generation after all.

Vita has PS3/X360 - look at how many assets are shared in games ported from bigger platforms like UMvsC, BB, Rayman etc

Maybe E3 Sony will announce a pileup of games. If they want to do well, I imagine they would, after all the last PSP game they released was God of War in 2010, and then 1 good launch title for PSV.

Don't think Sony can do that. Over the last couple years Sony has been seriously loosing money. They don't have the leisure to throw cash around like Microsoft.

Anything....good? Little Deviants was the biggest disappointment IMO, Hot shots Golf is shovelware. Uncharted is the only good game on PSV, and Resistance coming out will be game #2.

psp was huge when it launched, even outpacing the ds until the lite version and pokemon released.

Not going to be that way for long.

Their money troubles are getting much better with the inflating yen. Sony has said that they lose 6B yen for every 1 yen gain against the dollar. In the last month, it's dropped 6.4 yen. That's nearly 40B yen ie, 300 million dollars straight profit that Sony has made in a single month, if their statement was accurate.

what?

Thank you so much for making this thread kowenicki. I had the exact same frustrations as you where in that news post there were so many people who had simply looked at the graph and gone ''Oh well Vita is actually doing amazing'' and were ignoring the differences in launch times.

Of course as others pointed out at some point you will have to add notes about timing differences with large sale periods. However in the long run it will average out. Keep the thread updated! You can do it!

I think the most worrying thing so far is that despite launching MUCH bigger in Japan the Vita is already considerably behind the PSP after 3 months and it's weekly sales are also lower. Whereas in America and Europe the vita has even launched much lower than the PSP and we will have to see how following weeks go.

Does illustrate quite nicely just how much hype there was for the PSP with Sony coming off the highs of the PS1 and PS2, with people hoping it would be a portable PS2. In contrast the Vita is launching at a time when Sony are in a much weaker market position.