Pimp3k said:
It's funny that you say that Vita sales are dismal. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 was released in Japan in 2008 for PS2. PS2 sold ~ 20 million units that far in Japan, and the game sold 360000 copies. PSV didn't even break 1 million units in Japan, and Persona 4 Golden sold 210000 copies. Tales of Innocence was released in Japan in 2007 for NDS and on again ~20 million units sold 290000 copies. And again on under million Vita's sold the remake Tales of Innocence R sold 90000 copies. So what's exactly dismal here?
About the DL copies. Since there are "download cards" that are carried by retailers, aren't the digital numbers (or most of them) already included into total sales of NSMB2? |
The thing is, it shouldn't be just a million units. The attach rate for a couple of remakes is great... but so what? Overall hardware and software sales should be higher by now. And Even Persona 4 isn't that big a hit; it's been outsold be nine new and three old 3DS games so far this year. By this point in its life, the 3DS was still in trouble, but even it was doing better, with about twice as many hardware sales. It had a million seller (Ocarina 3D) and another game with sales near a million (Nintendogs+cats), in addition to a bunch of smaller games like PilotWings and Layton that were either localized or otherwise limited sucesses. The Vita, even counting digital sales, doesn't come close to that.
As for download cards, we have no idea if those count as retail sales or note.
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