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happydolphin on 02 August 2012
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pezus said:
Kenology said:
pezus said:

It is kind of ironic to see everyone here going on and on about digital sales but when they are mentioned for Vita's games they are brushed aside as irrelevant and too small to matter. Digital sales for a handheld (especially the first digital game...) are not going to be huge. Quote me

I don't think it's ironic at all.  It's pretty much a given that Vita digital sales will be negligible.  A 2D Mario game released in tandem with an extremely popular hardware revision is another matter entirely.  Seriously, that's not a good equivalency argument at all...

I'd expect you to be pessimistic though... 

It is? I'd be inclined to think that Vita's userbase is much more digitalized than the 3DS's. Nintendo are not known for digital distribution after all and Mario is a title that appeals to casuals (as well as hardcore gamers) which lessens the likelihood of good digital sales even more. Tell me again why this is not good? We are of course talking about relative numbers here, if you didn't get that already.

There has to be someone to counter all the over-expectations.

@bold. True, and it's appreciated. but when the facts come back, hopefully you'll be able to fine-tune your "devil's advocate" persona ;)

So, I bookmarked this. When the Digital numbers come in, would you consider 200k for FW (2days) to be considerable as compared to Vita FW digital download figures? If so, how could we tell the Vita DD numbers, are they publicly released?