| 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. |
What pezus said. You're arguing over the wording "prelaunch" versus "official launch." I'm just talking about how last week and this week should be counted as one since it would give us the best picture of what Vita's first week sales are. In the case of the Vita, it would be fair to count last week's sales with this week's sales because the people who bought them for $350 instead of $250 or $300 like the rest of us have more than enough reason to get one on launch week instead. If there was no first edition bundle, can't you see this would be the case? I felt like I just repeated myself. How do I know that these 75k people wouldn't wait 2 weeks or several months before putting down money for a Vita? Simple, they paid $350 for their limited bundle that they had to get from certain retailers. They want the Vita now.
Maybe it's because there hasn't been the issue of prelaunch numbers before. It only seems ridiculous to you since it has never been done before. If lets say, all games that came out also had prelaunch versions where you had to pay an extra $10 to get it a week early, then it would not be wrong to count those sales along with people who bought them for $60 to calculate the game's launch sales. But do the publishers do this? No, it doesn't make any sense and I don't think people would see any value in that and would instead get angry that they were trying to extract more money out of us. However, it makes way more sense for a brand new console. I know that the first edition bundle sales and launch sales are physically two separate things. But if we want to know the overall picture on how the Vita did, then we should look at both weeks as though they were one. I think Sony was smart by implementing this first edition bundle as it ensures that launch week goes by more smoothly and they can sell more 3G Vitas.
