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Sales - WW Up! 14th April - View Post

theprof00 said:
VicViper said:

Hmm, no - even though One Piece is bigger than Mario there. But I expect Pokemon to do a million first week and push 3DS past 150k. And I expect Monster Hunter to sell 2 million first week and push 3DS by 200k units.

That's the thing about expected things, they tend to happen quite more often than unexpected ones.

No, you didn't. You think soul sacrifice is the only one able to sell Vita games?

Pokemon, Monster Hunter, Mario. Do you know any other games?

Those are called Major franchises... add DQ and there you go, all the portable big boys are on 3DS - with some minor monsters following behind - like Animal Crossing or tomodachi collection or maybe (but I doubt) Brain Age 3. Final fantasy is the only exception, but it was never huge on portables, so I don't think FFXV or something like that will be on both 3DS or Vita. And if you're square what would you choose, 8 million or 1 million systems to sell to.

It's simple... any game can sell Vitas - Unit 13 pushed 18 vitas, remember? - but with what would you prefer to count on, those games "I know", or misterious major seller game? Just look at history, all winner systems had the majority of "big boys". This time 3DS seems to have them all!

Just to finish, I also think many many things can happen to Vita (including amazing things) but the wider the gap grows the more difficult it gets for them to happen. And it's growing wildely right now. Are you really happy with those numbers or think they're normal? They're dreamcast levels, jeez! Gamecube hitted a million ages before Vita and Vita is not even dreaming of reaching it anytime soon!