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MontanaHatchet on 04 February 2012
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Conegamer said:
spurgeonryan said:
I think Slimebeast that at this time, if a system were to sell only 50 million units it would be a failure. Back in the 90's and 80's no. It would be very successful. The Wii just sold around 10 million units last year from what we have learned from sales recently. That is what the Vita would need each year just to make 50 million over the next five years. I know you all can count, I was just saying. So if it were to do that it would be considered mediocre. The wii was mediocre last year. Christmas was pleasant as usual, but the rest was kind of disastrous. Vita def. needs 60-80 million. PS3 cannot old out for ever, Sony is in trouble in other areas as well. When Nintendo has had a bad year what have they almost always been able to fall back on? Their Handhelds. Sony needs the vita and PSP to do that for them as they transition to the PS4. I know they have other ventures that are doing good and bad. But I do not know much about them , and this is a VIta thread.

Now that I have gotten that over with, I will say that I think vita will do well in America and Europe. It is getting pretty good reviews. It is a very nice machine! Plus there will be a lot of Western oriented launch games! Consoles do not have to thrive in Japan to stay relevent anymore. AS we have seen with the 360.

Proceed to argue with me.

Some good points here. However, for Sony, their strongest area has always been Japan. If they can't do well here, then it's likely they'll struggle everywhere. The games may be more western orientated, agreed, but with no advertisment, it doesn't matter. If people don't know the difference between the PSP and the Vita, where's the incentive to fork out £300 for it? Especially this soon after Christmas...

Finally, to get to 50 mil sales in 5 years, you need only average 10 mil a year. 7,11,14,12,6 would also reach 50 mil in 5 years. And, as the Gamecube proved, power isn't everything. Doing things differently isn't always beneficial.

My point is, Sony shouldn't (and can't afford to) abandon Japan like Microsoft has. MS was never ever going to be competitive in Japan, but that didn't matter. They had a huge foothold in America to make up the difference. I'm not sure whether or not the Vita can be sustainable without Japanese support.


Sony's strongest area has always been Europe. And the Vita has been out for a month or so with Uncharted as its biggest game. Have a little patience and at least wait for the American and European launches before speculating this much. And no, Sony isn't going to abandon Japan. They're a Japanese company. Seriously, this is making my head hurt.