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naruball on 26 March 2014
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Kresnik said:
naruball said:
Am I the only vita owner who finds the vita numbers very disappointing? Same with ps4. I simply don't understand how they can sell so many new games (which are not sequels of games already released on the same system) and get such terrible boosts. Sure, sales could have fallen had it not been for the new games, but still. I was hoping for at least 50k for each system.

Mostly happy with j-star vita numbers. 90k seems like a success to me. Also, good to see the "glorified demo" doing so well.


But look at what released and consider whether fans of those types of games are already on the system.

Phantasy Star Online 2 -> Sequel

Hyperdimension Neptunia -> Sequel

Pro Baseball Spirits -> Sequel

 

Samurai Warriors -> Fans already on the system thanks to earlier Dynasty Warriors/Warriors Orochi games.  Also multi-plat with PS3.

J-Stars -> Fans already on the system thanks to earlier One Piece/Dragon Ball games.  Also multi-plat with PS3.

 

For those reasons, I really don't think you could've expected much hardware boost from such a lineup.

Good points, but still , with such a great number of titles released, one would expect sales to go much higher if they were so high (for vita standards) the week before with very few and less important releases. 

I have to disagree with the bolded. I could not care less about One piece (never seen the anime, so no connection with the characters) and the dbz are no longer system sellers. There have been so many released recently that people have lost interest in dbz and the franchise in general. I'm sure there are plenty of Bleach, Naruto etc fans who don't like either show. I would buy a vita (if I didn't already have one) for J-stars being the first naruto game released on psvita. I expect quite a few to feel the same. Then again, maybe I am wrong, since these numbers don't support my theory.