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ZaneWane on 25 February 2012
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TheKoreanGuy said:
enrageorange said:
TheKoreanGuy said:
enrageorange said:

only one week apart? Should both weeks count as everything's first week sales. I mean I personally think 75k is great for the expencive bundle, but you cant be combining weeks. It makes no sense.

What I meant was since it's a prelaunch week AND only one week from its actual release, it's fair to count them both. If there was no prelaunch week, wouldn't those same 75k people gotten their Vitas on launch day? If they wanted it so badly that they paid extra to get it one week early, I think they have more than enough reason to get one on the day it came out for everyone if there was no pre launch bundle. If it was let's say, a bundle where you get it one month in advance, then maybe the sales shouldn't be added together.

Prelaunch is a marketing thing. The system launched this past week. And the cheaper skus are coming out a week later. Those people who bought the vita "a week early" are still running around with it and playing it and hyping it to their friends, many of whom will be getting the vita now at "official" launch instead of a week after.

There was hardly any marketing for the first edition bundle. Only people who follow games media or visit the playstation blog knew about this. I only started seeing actual marketing of the Vita about a few days prior to Feb 22. So your criteria for not counting the prelaunch week's with the official launch week's sales is that people were influencing others to buy it themselves? Isn't this the case with every launch? The fact is these people who bought their vitas early would have bought them on Feb 22 or during the week of launch instead if there was no pre-launch bundle.

forgetting about 50 million marketing already  http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.350283-Sony-Will-Drop-50-Million-on-U-S-Vita-Marketing