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EncodedNybble on 25 February 2012
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Zim said:


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. 

Your Wii analogy is not a good one. Point being that "All the people who bought the Wii in the first month would have bought one the first week if they could" isn't the same because the pricing of the Vita "First Edition Bundle" was not the same. True it was available to the public (only through certain retailers) but it was at a pretty high mark up for what you got. The people who bought the Wii first week paid the same amount of money as the people who bought it first month. The people who bought the Vita on Feb 15th paid at least $50 more and at most $100 more than they were going to spend if they bought it a week later.

It wasn't really a different SKU (so not quite so similar to people buying 360 elites or PS3 60GBs) it was paying $50 or so for the benefit of getting it a week earlier. I can't really think of a similar situation.

I guess it'd be like if a week before the PS3 launched, Sony said "you can buy the 20GB version a week early for 599 US dollars." I'm not really sure how that would have gone over.

I honestly don't care if the FEB is the "launch" or not, the actual launch numbers mean nothing except in fanboy arguments. Are people really going to care if a piece of HW sells a certain about week one vs. week 2 instead of the other way around. I mean, the demand over the 2 weeks isn't going to change right? So does it really matter?