Sony: nearly half of PS Vita’s game sales are digital (48%)

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KylieDog said:

RenCutypoison said:

KylieDog said:

Includes PSN only titles for sure (and lots more of these than retail), so don't anyone go trying to double retail sales and act like you're anywhere close to being right.


...also, they still don't drop memory card prices to a reasonable price, despite this.

Let's say it like that :

Despite memory card high price, half the game's sales are still digital.

Why would Sony make cards cheaper ?

....and the sales overall are still crap.

Look at vita physical sales, they suck, doubling that number still makes sales crap.  Physical sales are not going to get much better because the physical released games are mostly B-grade at best, digital sales are priced at 15-20% of a retail game on average so those aren't bringing in as much money as retail despite almost matching it.  Yet digital is the only place they can really push sales so they should drop card prices and do that.

Vita is doing dire, this PR spin of info doesn't change that.

I'm a happy vita owner, and games are good enough for me. I don't think Sony is loosing that much money on vita either, so that's fine on an economic level too.

And I don't think dropping memory card price would have any effect on hardware sales, the software/hardware ratio is ok already so I don't see the point in making memory card cheaper right now.