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Forums - Sony Discussion - Vita price dropped to $199 (both Wifi & 3G models). FFX HD shown, release date to be announced soon.

 

Thoughts?

Vita is saved 130 31.10%
 
Won't do much 76 18.18%
 
Short lived boost 95 22.73%
 
Will increase baseline sales a little 117 27.99%
 
Total:418
Claymore on 18 February 2013

Not going to make much difference might get a few 20-30k week sales with the price cut but it'll soon drop back to the normal sub 10k again.



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tbone51 on 18 February 2013

3DS will get a price cut now lol, JK!



Conegamer on 18 February 2013
MARCUSDJACKSON said:
well if it's a global drop then a boost will happen.

Yeah, but I doubt it'll be a huge one, and very unlikely to be sustained. Could be wrong, of course.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Nsanity on 18 February 2013
Player2 said:
Nsanity said:
Deyon said:

JESUS!!

3DS DOOMED?

 

I dont think the 3DS has anything to worry about about:

Pokemon X and Y

Animal Crossing

Mario Golf

Fire Emblem

Luigi's Mansion 2

Castlevania: LoS

Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate

Mario and Luigi RPG

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D

 

What? Who buys a console to play games?

I dont get it?



Deyon on 18 February 2013

Nintendo fans seem upset Don't worry it won't steal the 3DS crowd.



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Kresnik on 18 February 2013

I fucking called this! For weeks I've been saying "If there was ever a time to drop Vita's price in Japan, it's February 28th when the games are coming".

Granted, I thought they were going to announce it at the PlayStation meeting rather than a Vita Heaven event that I didn't know about, but still. Ahhhh :D



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Claymore on 18 February 2013
Deyon said:

Nintendo fans seem upset Don't worry it won't steal the 3DS crowd.


Upset about what? the show was outright embarrassingly bad.



tbone51 on 18 February 2013
BasilZero said:
tbone51 said:
3DS will get a price cut now lol, JK!


That would be awesome though - better for me since I'm planning to get a 3DS later this year :)



if true i see 3DS(original) for $149.99 and the XL for $179.99 around June! $20 off would definitely help NoA+Europe



UncleScrooge on 18 February 2013

This will certainly lift baseline sales to a certain degree. I don't know where the notion of "price cuts only provide temporary boosts" came from but it's wrong. The PS3's 2009 price cut + slim combo lifted baseline sales a lot and Wii's 2009 price cut lifted baseline sales as well - sales just went down in 2010 because of a lack of games. The 3DS price cut spurred sales a lot. You just need games to back the price cut up and keep momentum high.

In Vita's case it will be a price cut + some games (at least in Japan) so sales will increase. If the price cut doesn't lift baseline sales at all it will be a clear indicator that the platform is dead - if there is demand a price cut will increase that demand. If a price cut doesn't help there's no demand to begin with. Let's hope that isn't the case. Of course a price cut won't do miracles so I agree with most of you guys on this one.

Here's hope for cheaper memory cards. Do it Sony, it'll give you at least one more customer



Kasz216 on 18 February 2013

Called it. Like I said. The fact that the Vita's forecast had been lowered didn't mean the price wouldn't be dropped. It's just been selling THAT badly.

With this hopefully Sony can meet or even slightly beat their revised expectations.