When Do you think will beat WiiU the Vita?

[MikeRox]

Samus Aran said:

I don't buy all that. Sony is keeping quiet on the Vita front for a reason. This will most likely be their last handheld, so I'm not even sure why people keep talking about the Vita.

And unless you have good sources for digital sales for both Wii U and Vita I'm not going to comment on it. And besides, adding the half of almost nothing is still not very much.

Sony went on record with the 48% of all software sales on Vita are digital last year. Nintendo haven't unveiled digital sales for Wii U so you can't possibly get a good source given they control 100% of the digital market.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/48-of-vita-software-sales-are-digital/0127955

Last tie we were given was over 10 games per console (this was for the US Market so we don't know overall), 10m consoles would be 100m software sales.

The reason for the lack of knowledge of European sales in particular is sales figures aren't released here, unless there are official announcements. And no disrespect to VG Chartz, but Europe is a much more complex territory to track than the US and so algorhythms and formulae are nowhere near as reliable.

However, here's a freaking awesome developer discussing Vita when they announced their next title was going to be Vita exclusive. (their last game was released on PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U and PSV).

"Honestly, Vita owners are the ****ing best," McQuinn said. "People rag on the Vita so much, and I think people who rag on the Vita don't understand, at least from a business perspective, the purchasing power of Vita owners. Vita owners are serious purchasers of games. It's an amazing system."

"The split in sales for Guacamelee between the Vita and the PS3 wasn't quite even, but it wasn't far off," McQuinn said. "I think that speaks to the strength of the Vita as a console to sell your game on because there are so many more PS3s than Vitas. For us, the sales on the Vita were really, really strong. It was a great SKU for us."That sentiment falls in line withSony's own pitch to developers from last year. And Guacamelee gave McQuinn all the evidence of that he needed.

As for why the system is perceived as an unattractive platform, McQuinn suggested it was more an issue of hardware numbers than software sales.

"If people don't see the Vita doing the same number of sales as the 3DS, then it's automatically a failure," McQuinn said. "But I think what people fail to understand is the purchasers of Vitas are very, very engaged game consumers. For them, the attach rate with games is very high. There might not be a lot of Vitas out there, but the people who do own Vitas are very serious consumers; they buy a lot of games."

Guess they thought Vita was more viable than Wii U?

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-04-14-ps-vita-doesnt-deserve-bad-reputation-drinxbox