| EncodedNybble said: People, let it go. Call it week 0, prelaunch, soft launch, whatever. Fact of the matter is, you could not walk into a retailer/online and put down $250 and come out with a Vita before Feb 22nd thus, anything before that is not "launch". That is the launch price and launch date. If you're going to be semanticy about it, then shouldn't the global launch have been when Japan launched since it is region free and everyone could import it? I would think the same logic implies if you want to call the FEB a "soft launch." As for launch numbers, logically, anyone who bought the Vita First Edition Bundle would have bought the Vita on the first week of launch if there was no such bundle. Hell, most of them are paying a $100 premium for a case and the ability to get it a week early, thus, it is implied that 99.99999999999999% of them would buy it first week if there was no such bundle. So I say week ending Feb 25's numbers + FEB numbers = total launch numbers. |
This is the exact reason I don't like people calling it pre-launch. Firstly it was for sale to the general public, thus it had launched. But this idea that because it is week 0 that the actual launch week should be week 0+week 1, because hey people who bought it week 0 would have bought it week 1 .... if it hadn't been for sale.... but it was for sale. You may as well say ''Oh well everyone who bought a wii in the first month would have bought the Wii first week if they could, so first week Wii numbers are actually the first months. ''
This weeks numbers are the Vita's soft launch numbers, next weeks will be the hard launch. Using the word pre-launch is nonsensical. It implies that the system wasn't available for sale.
oh and vgking there is a limited number of EVERY console at launch. The system was available to the masses. Anyone could have bought the first bundles, it wasn't some exclusive thing from having been a PSN member for X number of years or something.
The only launch on the 25th was the Wi-fi only version. However the Vita itself was already launched.
