Vita in Japan - 1st year review. 50% sold in first 5 weeks.

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Scisca said:

betacon said:

The interesting thing I looked at early last month was the software/hardware ratio between the 3ds and the vita, the vita is actually only .2 game less per system(note that might of changed with the holiday season).Now it's not quite this black and white but for me at least suggest its more to do with the vita pricing than anything else. We will see quite the jump when the vita's price is dropped.

 

Edit~ worldwide ratio, 2.48(3ds)  2.44(vita)

Remember that Vita has a much more developed online store and Vita gamers are much more willing to buy games online. For example I've decided to go 100% digital with Vita and I haven't even seen what a Vita cart looks like. The cart slots in my Vita have never been opened. So in your chart I harm the ratio with 1 Vita and 0 games, while from Sony's point of view that's not exactly the same story. I'm sure there are more people like me out there and Vita has a better ratio. Better ratio and better sales of 3rd party games are the only things this console has going for it right now.

I wonder how many people are going in that route, probably not as many. And in Japan, I'd think that the game most sold digitally is Animal Crossing. If Nintendo actually hooks people through that game to the other titles in the E-Shop, and japanese consumers start developing a better awareness of digital sales, will be the 3DS not the Vita that has the better position in digital sales. In Japan of course.