Not to mention that any Vita owner can just download the game off PSN for a discount.

Edit: The point is that there a bunch of factors that are largely unknown. You can criticize and make up an excuse for just about everything in this case.

come on now... seriously.. what is this 'sony having problems stocking up' ... why cause vita has been selling gangbusters all its life.. therefore they have not much stock to sell...

anyway i dont expect you people to know any better.. but logic is logic.

Soriku... are you kidding with me? You posted the same thing I posted here in GAF threads hours ago.

Soriku said: ethomaz said: Soriku said: When there is large demand for HW, SW demand follows. Sure new owners buy games alongside HW each week, but there are over 1 million Vita owners out there and they're buying games each week too. If the highest a game is selling this week for Vita is only 4.5k it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of interest in the games in general. Valid point.. you just forget Vita have digital sales too . While true, I don't believe that digital sales will have made up for that many sales. I mean the 3DS has 8 titles in the charts this week...and that's, of course, discounting digital. Physical is still very very strong and when we're only talking about a couple thousand in sales for the highest game...I wouldn't expect digital sales to be that big. I will say though that Soul Sacrifice digital sales could be interesting.

3DS has around 10 million install base, Vita has around 1 million install base. It would be natural to think the 3DS should be selling 10 times the amount of software Vita is (retail). Although in reality it's only about 5 times that of total Vita software per week. If anyone is slacking in buying games, it's 3DS owners. When you consider the "megaton" games 3DS has, and the big number of new 3DS owners per week over Vita, it's even sadder when you look at it that way...

Soriku said: ethomaz said: Soriku said: When there is large demand for HW, SW demand follows. Sure new owners buy games alongside HW each week, but there are over 1 million Vita owners out there and they're buying games each week too. If the highest a game is selling this week for Vita is only 4.5k it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of interest in the games in general. Valid point.. you just forget Vita have digital sales too . While true, I don't believe that digital sales will have made up for that many sales. I mean the 3DS has 8 titles in the charts this week...and that's, of course, discounting digital. Physical is still very very strong and when we're only talking about a couple thousand in sales for the highest game...I wouldn't expect digital sales to be that big. I will say though that Soul Sacrifice digital sales could be interesting.

We got numbers for the first few days and it sold well. 

It was my understanding that not every 3DS was on the 3DS Shop. (whereas every Vita game is on PSN)

Isn't it really unfair to not  include the double pack? Double pack is practically the same game and we already have some data available for it.

22,050 * 2 = 44,100

So if you count the double pack that is already 200K so we can't just ignore it because that 44K copies is almost 25% of 200K.

Hmm, I didn't realise the double pack was tracked by Media Create.

And I'm not going to say if it's fair or not. The game as a whole will easily pass that mark, but my only concern is the version which is still in the charts. I'm not "hating" on the game or anything. I'm looking forward to picking it up, and I wish it all the success.

So the single game by itself will not pass 250k, not including the double pack or other re-releases, regardless if it's "fair" or not. Because aside from the data you provided for the double pack (which I concede I did not realise was avaliable), we don't know how these other versions have sold.

Tomodachi disappoints. Let's hope that during Golden Week the decline will be modest. Nintendo is most likely projecting a minimum of 2 million for this title due to DS success.

I see a decline in Vita sales. What am I missing?

And yeah, there are stock shortages, but not enough for there to be a huge difference in weekly sales. It's not going to jump to 20-25k a week, for example.