PS Vita Selling "Very Well" According to Sony CEO

[UncleScrooge]

Chark said:

Aj_habfan said:
He kind of ruins it all by saying it is selling pretty good in Japan.

He also never said Vita was selling "very well", he said he was "very, very positive" about the sales.

But I hope it's true!

I know everyone has been knocking the Japan sales, but think about it a little bit and it might not seem all the bad, not great, but not bad, maybe even considered "very well".  320,000 at launch, woot, but only an average of what? 15,000 a week?  Well let's place it in reference to everything else shall we?  It's new hardware, more pricey hardware, no wonder really its on the lower end.  That and the PSP is still selling very well, always has been in Japan, and a bunch of great titles there have been debuting increasing demand for that over the Vita due to not so entirely compatible psp games, side note thankfully all vita games will be digital, hurray for Sony putting their foot down on that one atleast.  The vita launched in December then saw decreasing sales week after week, but hey!, did anyone notice the other systems.  Oh yeah, they have also been decreasing each week, in fact if you plug in the percentages the Vita is right on par with everything else out there, especially interesting when comparing to how the 3ds is doing.  Percentages aside, the Vita just launched and hasn't had a chance to adhere to the market or present a larger breadth of games, unlike the 3ds who has finally done so and is selling well because of it.  Can we really discredit the vita because of 3ds' succuess after being available in the market for so long?  As for the US launch, well there's that 74,600 number of First edition bundles sold.  I won't know until next week's data comes in but I'd assume not everyone looking to get one at launch opted for that bundle, especially since that was an oline order only.  Some people still like to buy things in person right?  Someone has to have the preorder data, maybe.  Wish I did, can't find any facts anywhere except for after sales data on VgChartz. Well, software pre orders yes, but not hardware.  Jack won't say how they are selling until everything is out there and selling, but "very, very positive"  is pretty good I think.  Let's just hope everyone else starts to feel the same after the data comes out.  I would like to play some Vita games with a market environment that's not trying to kill me because I bought something Sony.

This is slightly crude logic, don't you think? Of course all consoles drop roughly the same amount after christmas if all you look at are percentages. But the Vita is currently selling about 1/4 of what the PSP did at this point in its life (at the same price) and not even 1/2 of what the 3DS sold last year (again, at the same price and neither the PSP nor the 3DS had much software in the beginning). Of course sales will go up once good software arrives but unlike Nintendo Sony currently isn't in the position to do a drastic price drop because they are losing money on the hardware already. 

I've said this in another thread already: Nintendo's decision to abandon the mass market and focus on the core gamers with the 3DS hurt both Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo lost around 50% of their market (if not more, which is terrible) and Sony is losing a good chunk of their customers to Nintendo with Nintendo getting Monster Hunter and Resident Evil. I sincerely hope with 2D Mario and Brain Training on their way Nintendo will focus more on the mass market again. 3DS sales would skyrocket and Sony should be able to get a bigger chunk of the core gaming market that way. Both companies need to focus on growth instead of cannibalizing each other's sales.

OT: If I remember correctly "Very very well" is marketing speech for "I won't give you any numbers because they are not as good as we expected." They certainly are not pleased with Japan sales.