Sony scales back expectations for Vita after weak sales performanc

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SaviorX said:

VicViper said:

kowenicki said:

PSV 800k in 2 months (200k in last month)

PSP 880k in 2 months (200k in last month)

...so 1.6m in 2 months, but only 400k or so in the last month,

This leaves 10.4m to do in 10 months. 

That forecast is for shipment numbers, aren't they?

So that means its 1.4 for the first 3 months (Q1) - from their financials, leaving 10.6m for the next 9 months. Or I'm missing something?

EDIT: Beaten

With numbers like these, Vita will have a hard time rebounding;its lifetime sales are suffering as a result of inactivity. As it stands I can see it doing 65 million lifetime, and it is only that low because of this poor launch. Something makes me feel like Nintendo overpriced the 3DS on purpose so that this pricing issue would happen to Sony.

Japan has come through for the PSP with truly unbelievable support for the past 3 years. I'm not confident in a repeat of that, but maybe the 3DS will become saturated and the Vita can repeat what the PSP did again.

I strongly doubt this sabatoge theory. Nintendo didn't really do itself many favors by having slow 3DS sales after launch. I suspect they anticipated better sales and aimed for more profit to offset the dropping Wii sales. There was also a strong anticipation that Sony's next handheld was going to be $300 or more. It is probably true the Vita's low price affected the 3DS price cut but it was reactionary.

With that said the 3DS should have been $200 from launch and remained so without a cut. Maybe if this was the case the handheld market wouldn't be so weak right now unless those smartphones are really taking over. Maybe this generation of young gamers are lost to the fads their parents experienced. I always thought the market would follow the advancement of tech but it seems we are in a strange place today.