| scottie said: 1) Will the PSP become more successful than the DS in the next 3 months? So that point does not support your claim that, despite doing worse in launch week, Vita will do better during the next 3 months.
2) What, Sony shipped 500k copies of the hardware, but only around 300k of a required peripheral? In all honesty, I'm not going to believe this unless you provide me with a reliable source.
3) I'm sorry, but that makes no sense. Look at the current hardware sales of all the consoles and handhelds. Christmas is a period of higher than usual sales, not lower. Look at the front page, the 3DS just sold 1.5 million units in a week.
4) No, the number of people in this world who wait for firmwave upgrades are statistically insignificant. As a general idea of how many people there would be doing as you say. 99% of the population have no idea what the word firmware means. Back in the day, people kept saying that when the PS3 had this or that firmware update sales would skyrocket. There was never any change in hardware sales associated with firmware updates.
5) As with 1, this point will be as true, or maybe even more true, for the next 3 months. This is not a reason why Vita will outsell the 3DS in the next three months even though it didn't in the first week.
So you have 3 points that prove my point, 1 that proves no point, and 1 that (assuming it is true) does give some reason to think that Vita might make back a bit of ground. |
1. It's an advantage not an auto win.
2. Alot of People bought 1 psv and 2+ memory cards... here's an article http://www.destructoid.com/ps-vita-did-not-sell-out-in-japan-but-memory-cards-did-218167.phtml
3. Yeah but not when the thing just launched a week before. It's usually higher then average because everyone is buying something for someone but vita has only been out a week. When something launches everyone who wants it goes out and buys it but they can't do that a week from christmas since they might be getting it as a present. I'll simplify it gets the holiday bonus but loses the launch bonus.
4. They don't need to know what it means, they just need to know vita has bugs that aren't fix yet.
5. I never said it was, the more time passes the less people who think this is true.
PSV will sell more over the 3 months, because 2 and 3 will be a non issue soon enough, Sony will fix 4 which will help the word of mouth and it still has better games then the 3DS does and is getting better games then it did.
