Japan sales: Famitsu, Media Create & Dengeki - Week 16 ( Apr 15 - Apr 21 )

[outlawauron]

Soriku said:

ethomaz said:

Soriku said:

Umm...I don't know if you can say something like "Vita's stock was sold out in a few hours" conclusively. It's not like Vita SW is that prominent on the charts right now. The highest Vita SW now is Muramasa at only 4.5k sold. Where is this large demand for the Vita coming from?

Are you suggesting people that can't buy the Vita (hardware) just buy Vita's games (software)?

Shortages causes slow software sales too... the guys that already have Vitas already bought all the games they wanted... new consumer increase the software sales.

When there is large demand for HW, SW demand follows. Sure new owners buy games alongside HW each week, but there are over 1 million Vita owners out there and they're buying games each week too. If the highest a game is selling this week for Vita is only 4.5k it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of interest in the games in general.

Not to mention that any Vita owner can just download the game off PSN for a discount.

Edit: The point is that there a bunch of factors that are largely unknown. You can criticize and make up an excuse for just about everything in this case.