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naruball on 25 February 2012
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greenmedic88 said:
Zim said:
I'm sorry but why do people keep saying the vita's sales are pre-launch? Don't be deluded. They aren't at all. The Vita was available to the public.

It was simply a soft launch. The vita was still available to anyone who wanted one. You can't use ridiculous logic such as 'This week and next week should be combined'' or talk about how it is pre-launch. Trying to figure out how something being sold is pre-launch is maddening.

Soft launch does not equal pre-launch. Pre-launch would be before it was on sale. It was on sale so can't be pre-launch. It can only be pre-hard launch.

Then sales for the official launch week starting 2/22 stands to be the largest increase between 1st and 2nd week sales for any gaming platform to date.

Early launch bundles were limited availability (select retailers only) both in numbers and location and anyone not trying to express fake surprise over the limited sales acknowledges this. 

I will say that I don't see why anyone would even suggest that early launch bundle sales should be grouped together with 1st week general release sales seeing as how they cover a period of more than one week. 

First month sales and any drop off trends in sales more than anything else will demonstrate the short term success of the platform more than opening week sales anyway.

Can someone please make a thread next week bragging about this? At least it's as ridiculous as saying that this was the Vita's first official week.