Sony Japan president: PS Vita sales have increased four-fold

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tbone51 said:

the_dengle said:

tbone51 said:
Just check 3DS #'s for japan only.

2 weeks prior to price cut= 16,165
1 week prior to price cut= 3,928
Price Cut Week (no games)= 206,065

it was about 12 or 13 times more than two weeks prior with no major releases.

Go back to the week before the price cut was announced. 32k. An increase of 6.5 times.

Thats two weeks prior isn't it? Or thats wat you meant?

3DS was selling ~32k per week in Japan then Nintendo annouced the price cut which would take place in 3 weeks so the sales went ~32k -> 16k ->4k -> 206k -> 103k -> 50k -> etc. As such you could argue that ~45k of the price cuts FW came from people simply waiting for the price cut to take place after it was annouced. 

Anyway the end result is that 4x the sales is a reasonable result but in the end the question is -- where will weekly vita sales end up sitting at? 10k again? 15k? 20k? 25k? that is the number that really matters in the long term.