Tretton hoping for half-million PS Vita sales in first three weeks of US launch

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A really strange article at reuters there. Perhaps the oddest quote is "The target consumer is a PS3 owner, and there's 60 million of those out there," Tretton said. "He's also male and in his early 20s." Why exactly wouldn't you make the target consumer errr gee I don't know PSP owners? You know there's more of them and they already have an interest in handheld gaming.

Also can't figure out if he is purposefully throwing out a comically low figure. 500k in 3 weeks would be VERY slow sales. The only reason I can think of him stating that is so if it does better he can come out and say ''It's doing better than our prediction!''

I also thought maybe it meant 500k including the soft launch. Nope the article is dated the 22nd and says the next 3 weeks. So he is talking about the first full 3 weeks of proper launch.

Even stranger is what Director Michael Gartenberg of Gartner Research said. Seriously his quote is like something from a The Onion article. To quote it in full from the article ''Gartner's Gartenberg said Sony might want to consider a price cut. Vitas would be flying off the shelves at $79 or $99 each, he added.''....... This man is the director of a market research company..... REALLY?! He may as well have come out with ''Yea if everything cost 1/3 the price it would sell more!'' Nevermind that it would probably bankrupt the companies as they sold huge amounts of a product for hundreds of dollars in losses each.