PlayStation Vita sells 1.2 million units Worldwide

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Toxicspikes said:

theprof00 said:

Toxicspikes said:

Zlejedi said:

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VGKing said:

Toxicspikes said:
4 Million games sold is quite good!

LOL.....its 2 million dude.

I see. That's not good at all. I thought they meant 2 million retail + 2 million digital.

2 milion is very good for 1,2 milions consoles sold - previous gen handhelds had attach rates of around 5 lifetime.

That's way lower than I expected, but I still don't think 2 million is very good for 1,2 million consoles. More like average or something, and average is not good. To me, at least.

That's 1.67 games per person. That's 10 games for every 6 people. Considering that those ten people then need to also buy a memory card, with an average of 35$, then you're looking at a 250$ console with 100$ of accessories.

A successful attach rate at a store for accessories is 20%. That attach rate for accessories is 40%, and it's likely much higher considering people also bought cases, screen protectors, etc etc. People spent a LOT of money on this.

tl;dr attach rate for games is very high, and attach rate on the console is very high as well.

 

And let's be serious, you expected it to flop, right?

I didn't expect it to flop, quite the opposite actually. With all the hype about Uncharted I expected most people to buy Uncharted along with at least one other game, so 1.67 per person is lower than what I expected.

I didn't think about the costs of the memory card and some additional accesoires though. Buying two games along with a fairly expensive console and some handhelds may be a bit too much to buy at once.

Given the costs of the vita games compared to the psp games, The vita is probably over a 2 attach rate.
Also, I know it may not seem too crazy that everyone would buy two games, but man, I TRIED to push myself to buy 2 games, and it was just too much money for everything.

I spent, let's see:
300$ bundle
2 protective screens (since I never seem to do the first one properly) 20$
Carrying case (I didn't get the starter bundle because I don't like the case it comes with) 20$
Hot Shots Golf 39.99

380$ plus 6.25% tax = 403.75

Man that shit was expensive.

Oh, I was also planning to buy corpse party later as well, so I guess I could add that too.

 

I probably would've bought more, but you see, my PC's mobo died like the day before, so I had to order another 300 in parts for that.