Pachter says Vita's first three months will be better than the 3DS first three months.

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scottie said:

DarkDesent666 said:

scottie said:

DarkDesent666 said:

scottie said:

Vita's launch games are far better then 3DS

Then why did more people buy the 3DS is a non holiday launch week than bought Vita in a holiday launch week?

1. psp was less sucessful then DS (ie more nindendo fans)

2. Memory cards sold out for vita 

3. People tend not to buy stuff for themself around holidays and since vita launched barely a week before christmas alot of people probably held off

4. People waiting for firmware update before buying

5. 3DS dropping the price so quickly makes people think vita might so they hold off

I think these points can easy explain a 50k difference

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. There are no nintendo fans... PSP vs DS does have nothing with the ne gen on portables... No one bougth 3Ds because are fans of Ds and o one are buying Vita because own a PSP Just the game line up is a reason for buying a new console.

2. I think that he's trying to say that the low retails sells are because most people bougth donwloables games... I did read that the hardware-softaware (retail) ratio was 0.90...  that's less than one game per console...

3.You're saying about the total of 3Ds sold worldwide... and vita only sell on japanse market currently... BUT the 3DS and the Vita itself got a very good week for cristmast in japan... i'm with you in this...

4.Lame excuse... i'm with you... but people waiting for price cut is probable...XD

5. I don't trust patcher... but  I think that vita could outsell 3Ds but 3 months after the Western release... the japanases release was aerly and Weak in term of software that match tthe japanese tastes... I think Vita looks more atractive for westerns consumers than eastern now aday... Is just wait and see... There's already a Gundam announced for Vita and  before 2012 2nd semester there will be more games announced for vita... this is JUSt the begining..