SONY: 63% of PS3 Owners Will buy a Vita

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PlaystaionGamer said:

With its official release set for February, the Vita will miss the lucrative holiday season, but this delay won’t be too detrimental to sales, according to a Sony survey.

 

According to the Sony report, 63% of PlayStation 3 owners have pre-ordered a Vita, or plan to buy a PS Vita within 18 months of launch. In addition, 60% of PlayStation Portable owners will upgrade.

Missing this year’s holiday season will apparently work in Sony’s favor, as it means they will be able to meet demand. John Koller, Sony’s PlayStation director of hardware marketing, said:

Sony has learned a lesson to make sure you have enough products.

Mr. Koller told AllThingsD that, during the PSP’s launch, the handheld sold over one million units within its first week, despite releasing in March. With a huge number of developers backing up the PlayStation Vita, Sony is confident that their handheld will have a great launch.

The PlayStation Vita releases on February 22nd,

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I am trying to find the original research Sony had for Move. I remember posting it years ago before Move launched which stated a very high percentage of PS3 owners were expected to buy Move. They had done survey's of PS3 owners and Wii owners and had also included pre-order numbers. Yet when the device actually launched it failed on a massive scale to deliver the sales Sony predicted.

Now lets look at what Sony directly says in this according to your OP! If Sony isn't stretching the truth and around 63% of PS3 owners have pre-ordered the Vita or plan to purchase it within 18-months. Then we will have the largest launch of any games console in history , pre-orders are generally picked up launch day or within the launch week or two. Using my rough Math skills I find that launch year sales if these pre-order numbers are true would exceed 31-million units making it the single largest console launch in history. Then if you consider the extra PSP owners they include you have a massive unprecedented launch something that has never been seen before.

Will Vita be the fastest selling game platform in history? No it won't these numbers are inconclusive and won't lead to anywhere near the results Sony is predicting. I wouldn't be surprised if PS Vita could break a couple million launch month then slow dramatically for the months prior rounding up the year with at the very best which would take a miracle around 10-million hardware units! The fastest selling game console in history was the Nintendo Wii with only 10.6 million units! For Vita to beat that would take a miracle to come close to it would be a miracle.

So no Sony is full of shit, this is yet another baseless publicity stunt meant to drum up hype and support for Vita. These findings will not result in sales. Also even Sony knows this is completely shit, if they really expected to sell 31-million units in 18-months they would be manufacturing shit loads more then they are. Sony's supply lines aren't even capable of producing 31-million units at their current capacity within 18-month at least I highly doubt they could!