Japan Sales - Media Create,Famitsu, & dengeki: week 41 ( Oct. 7 - Oct 13 )

[Train wreck]

kowenicki said:

Train wreck said:

Impressive for the Vita, i pegged its sales at ~56k for the week and it even topped those somewhat lofty estimates (from a base of 3.5k). With a major title being released every month for the system for the next couple months, this period should finally give the vita the breathing room it needs to become a viable option for developers in Japan for the future (even though it already was). should be trending downward until god eater 2 enters

3.5k?

selective memory, recent history hasnt been anhything like that.  see my post above.

3.5k were sales for the prior week, so going from that to 60k is indeed impressive.  Maybe you need to fact check your own post.  The new vita model was announced on September 9th, not in August.  Vita sales took a drastic dip right after obon, despite new software, so it was inevitable that weekly would suffer and looking at last years numbers (for this week vita only sold ~5k), it was a good move all around for Sony, especially in the face of fierce competetion on the 3DS side with two multimillion sellers in the same time period.