The Vita's pre-orders are lacking! Is this going to be a problem for Sony?

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Zlejedi said:

spurgeonryan said:

According to the latest Japan preview article by Jacob Mazel currently on the front page of VGchartz there are no Playstation Vita games at this time with pre-orders over 20,000. He also mentioned, as did a recent thread, that it's launch is a mere two weeks away. What does the number 20,000 mean? Nothing, it is just a number. But the reason I bring it up is because when the 3DS was two weeks away from launching it already had 5 games with over 20,000 pre-orders, again that is coming from Mr. Mazel.

Could this have happened because the PSP is still so popular in Japan right now? This week alone Kamen Rider Climax Heroes Fourza sold around 55,000 copies and we have all seen that it has been strong over there for a while.

I would also like to mention the new Monster hunter game on the 3DS is on that system alone as far as I know. Does that mean Japan will be loyal to the 3DS for now? or is it all just too early to tell?

 

There are a lot of good things coming to the Vita, so I hope the launch goes well! Any one know the Vita's pre-orders? Seece?

what do you all think about this?

Ahh I though for a moment that you have some actual preorder numbers for Japan ;)

But with biggest launch game being Uncharted which sells 100k on few milions big PS3 userbase in Japan and most of Japan oriented stuff being ports from other platform It wouldn't be suprising to see no games selling above 50k on launch week.

I agree. The biggest launch game for Japan though is the Golf game, not Uncharted.

The only difference I see with the 3DS launch is that 3DS had a bigger launch title with Layton, otherwise the software pre-orders for both are (imo) not dramatically different, especially if you take into account that there are more launch titles. I don't think this in itself says anything about how Vita will do in its launch week.