kowenicki said:
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Well, hopefully that translates into lasting sales. Vita really is an amazing system, it just has some really heavy competition and a lack of software support. PSP did well with the casual audience before phones really took off. Now, with the mobile competition, vita is really feeling the pressure. I bet psp to vita lost over 50% of their female audience, which was about 50% of psp sales iirc.
So it's kinda hard to say whether people who are buying ps4 are buying because they're sony fans, or are just gamers in general.
I mean, I would agree that it looks like sony fans buy early, but remember that vita sales dropped off pretty quickly, but we're now in the end of 3 months on sale and it's still doing nearly 15% of peak. Its sales right now per week is within 1% difference of every home system combined.
So, maybe it's actually that all the sales over the past for vita has been playstation fans slowly adopting over time because they were unsure about the system until price drops etc, but they bought ps4 immediately since it's clearly an awesome system. Remember that vita has been out for a couple years now...it's not like 60% of those sales were within the first 3 months.
