As everyone probably knows, Vita had some undertracking for Black Friday week and while Sony announced 160,000 sold in the US, VGChartz has adjusted their number to 135,653. This could be a shipped vs sold difference or still be slightly off, but the benefit of the doubt goes to VGChartz. They might have made up the difference in their maths by readjusting weeks earlier in the month, I'm not sure how they do maths here, but over 20k more Vitas sold throughout the month of November due to adjustments. This pins Vita's install base at 3.55 million and the prediction now has it at 4.41 million since release and 3.93 million in 2012 alone.
While a world wide 200k Vita's this past week is not a bad number, it is below what should have been 230k after accounting for the adjustments of the week prior.The remaining weeks will be important for the system as an increase in word of mouth from new sales, holiday shopping lists, new deals, and higher discretionary spending should elevate sales above levels seen earlier this year. Will the Vita maintain its moment for December? Will that momentum enter into next year? Or will the system be roughing it again until that rumored price drop sometime in Spring, Summer, or Fall.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
