PS Vita USA 1st week sales - 160,499

[Zim]

RolStoppable said:

Zim said:

You can use that logic for anything though. Why not include the entire first month  sales of the Vita as first week? After all anyone who buys it in the first month would have bought it first week if they could. 

Sales are measured in weeks. You can't include things from outside the times stated. 

man-bear-pig made a post later the same day clarifying that it was the week ending the 25th and I believe also edited the post to make that clear at the same point (he can correct me if I'm wrong). Everyone who read the first post new it was for the week ending the 25th. Since the FEB don't change the flow of time they don't fall in that. 

Because those sales would have happened after the official launch week, not before. Your following sentence could only hold some truth, if the system in question was heavily supply constrained which would force planned purchases to be postponed.

Speaking of changing the flow of time, if you call the official launch week the first week, what does this make the FEBs? Week zero sales, a date that does not exist? Should we also exclude all sales of games that take place before their official launch date when measuring first week sales?

Seriously, people who take advantage of being able to get a product before the official launch date would have definitely bought the product on launch day, if they weren't offered the option to get it earlier.

There was a soft launch and a hard launch. The Vita was launched at the soft launch with the FEB. The FEB are week 1 of sales. The fact is the system was for sale, anyone could buy it etc etc. It wasn't like how Nintendo did with the DS in Europe where there were only 1000 systems that you could only purchase them through Nintendo's website and you had to also use a certain amount of stars. The system was available from a wide variety of retailers to anyone. 

Most systems are supply constrained at launch so yup it would easily apply to them. 360/wii etcs first month or even more would be it's first week according to you. The TC's post was very clear, everyone should have known what they predicting.