Official Playstation Vita Thread! The Last Stand - Ys VIII, Mary Skelter, Yomawari Midnight Shadows, Persona 3&5 Dancing, Atelier Lidy & Soeur, DanganRonpa V3, Demon Gaze II & MORE!

[M.U.G.E.N]

greenmedic88 said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

TheKoreanGuy said:
I went to best buy just now to see if I could pick up a copy of Blazblue but turns out they don't carry it and basically everything was sold out. They still had some leftover Uncharted and Hot Shots Golf, and one copy of Wipeout and Little Deviants, but everything was gone =0 Also they didn't have any 32gb memory cards.

The amount of games sales via digital means on the psv are gonna surprise many I think :D

Only problem is I don't think SCE releases sales figures on digital licenses. If they do, that's news to me anyway.

What will be really interesting is to see how well digital licenses sell compared to retail box copies. There should be a strong corellation between the number of memory cards SCE sells and the rate at which people are buying digital licenses if there is a reliable way to track memory card sales. Seeing as how the only source is currently Sony, it seems doable. 

The only thing holding digital back is the inflated memory prices for those proprietary memory cards. That alone is the reason why I'm still buying most PSV games on chip. 

If they sell favorably, it would be pretty ironic considering that the digital sales format is what effectively killed the PSP Go after being much maligned. The lack of a UMD transfer program no doubt helped as well. That's speaking as someone who would have bought a PSP Go had they allowed license transfers to digital format from UMD. 

I sure hope they do. Will help get a better idea of the sales situation. A lot of anectodal evidence have shown sell outs in many places tho for larger mem cards..same was the situation in JP when psv launched and the JP psn had psv games ranking real high in sales in the weeks after

I think people who pick up the bundles will be enticed to give the DD games a go..I know I will try out Escape Plan and Mutant Blobs when I get my psv next week for sure. As someone on another site pointed out, when all the games are available digitally, impulse buys tend to happen more often, especially if you have credit on your account.

I think what works on psv is that unlike the psgo, the consumer has the option to use both DL and physical. Consumers don't like being restricted imo. I think with the psv and things like making kz3 f2p Sony are learning how good digital distribution can be for games. I hope they keep improving