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Forums - Sony Discussion - Famitsu: 64% of Japanese players plan to buy PS Vita this year.

While the results are interesting, I think they demonstrate the bias in the sample more that potential future sales ...

With over 70% of respondents being male, I wonder how other demographics are distributed; and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the survey (essentially) demonstrates that the PS-Vita is very popular for male "hardcore" gamers between the age of 13 and 18. A tiny group that is not representative of the larger community.



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What do you expect? Sony has no gamez so their gamers have too much time to do polls.



Flanneryaug said:

This poll is a joke. There is no way that 10% of Japanese gamers are going to buy a Xbox 360 this year.

It;s possible that they were trolls



Xbox 360 is surprisingly high.



Perhaps that FFXHD, Soul Sacrifice and a few other Japanese Vita games are highly anticipated and therefore there is a strong possibility that those games will sell very well.



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maybe because of Soul Sacrifice?



we can only hope,poor old vita



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Anecdotal evidence. This means nothing.



DirtyP2002 said:

34.6 million gaming devices were sold in Japan. (360 + PS3 + Wii + 3DS + PS Vita) Not counting PSP, WiiU and DS.
So there are 34.6 million players.

So, 64% means 22.14 million PS Vitas will be sold in Japan in the next 12 months. Seems legit.


Maybe ... revise the definition of the verb "to plan"?

In any case, the poll is obviously about the readers, not the actuel entirety of gamers in Japan. The poll still indicate that there is interest for the handheld after all.



Well, they can't vote for devices they already own, right? Nobody owns a Vita.....fill out the blanks.



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