Vita gets 1800% increase in one month

[MikeRox]

famousringo said:

Fusioncode said:

From 3k to 56k. Numbers are still very bad, but this sort of increase is unprecedented. Dat Borderlands effect?

Really? Borderlands moved the needle that much? Seems unlikely.

I've long suspected that NPD bundles their adjustments into the monthly numbers, which can make them look really distorted. They've probably been undertracking Vita for months and lumped all those sales into May.

It's been explained in plenty of previous posts.

Sony had not been shipping any Vita stock to the US clearing out the channels of OLED stock. This was why sales dropped into 4 digits last month. There were literally no Vitas left in stock anywhere TO sell.

Borderlands 2 probably had very little to do with it. You wouldn't expect 66% of a game's sales to come from new hardware sales. Then barely having anyone who already owns the system bothering with it. Just doesn't correlate to me.