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Will the vita outshine the 3DS's first three months?

Most assuredly 53 9.96%
 
Maybe 81 15.23%
 
NO 148 27.82%
 
certainly not 103 19.36%
 
Hard to tell 41 7.71%
 
Not too hard 11 2.07%
 
see resultz 23 4.32%
 
other 2 0.38%
 
What is a Pachter? 69 12.97%
 
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sales2099 on 28 December 2011
VGKing said:
scottie said:
DarkDesent666 said:
scottie said:
If the launch lineup was better, then Vita would have sold more in its first japanese week (ie a holiday week) than the 3DS did in a non holiday week. it didn't, therefore the 3DS had better launch games.

The rest of the argument falls apart pretty easily from there. Sony is heading for the same dearth of software that will drive hardware sales in the first 3 months. 3DS will most likely outsell Vita, barring a price drop within the next month.

Vita's launch games are far better then 3DS


Then why did more people buy the 3DS is a non holiday launch week than bought Vita in a holiday launch week?

The Vita launched pretty late in the holidays. Not only that but it had a lot of competiton, the 3DS had tons of momentum with a lot of its big games released in time for the holidays. The fact that Vita came so close to 3DS launch numbers is really impressive.

Thats spin if I ever saw it. 

Launch week > competition. 

But you cant argue how Vita released at the same price point but with a ton of games...all 3DS had was Street Fighter 4 at launch. 



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Monteblanco on 28 December 2011

Patcher probably thinks that the Christmas release plus the stronger launch library would give Vita an advantage. However, he fails to acknowledge that, unlike 3DS, Vita faces strong competition against the 3DS that, right now, has a much stronger game library than Vita's. Also, many people will choose a single platform per generation and many of those already chose the 3DS just because it was already available. It also doesn't help the fact one of PSP's main titles was released to the 3DS a week earlier and its sequel is being promoted as a 3DS exclusive.

I still think it is possible to the Vita to beat the 3DS in the first three months. However, it would be much more difficult than what Pachter is thinking.



dividePower on 28 December 2011

Well, if we see the numbers for Week #2 for PSV we might get the picture of how the competition between the 2 consoles will go in the near future (where nothing major changes the status quo for both parties), but looking at the 3DS's 500k+ units during Christmas week in Japan alone (which is Wk 2 for PSV) does seem to paint a worrying picture for Vita.

The reasons (about the PSV having lower launch sales) aside, I think there's another major reason why it's lower. People are afraid of the re-enactment of 3DS history.

That aside, if the whole war this gen revolves primarily around the price of each console (and that the quantity and quality of games of both consoles are on par), PSV might lose the game again (I'm pretty sure the current profit levels at this selling price might be marginal, assuming that it does exist in the first place, so price cuts after something screwed up happens won't be an option)

(Camps for Wk 2 sales numbers) Edit: Oh crap 3DS outselling Vita 7:1, plus PSP numbers are higher than its successor.



Galaki on 28 December 2011
DarkDesent666 said:

2. Memory cards sold out for vita

That excuse doesn't even make sense even though you repeated that all over the places to damage control.

You might not want to look at week2 sales now, if you hadn't already.



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radishhead on 28 December 2011

I still think Vita is going to beat 3DS's first 3 months - 3DS's really were pretty shocking



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Play4Fun on 28 December 2011

He has basically doomed the Vita.



Galaki on 28 December 2011
Play4Fun said:
He has basically doomed the Vita.

He totally did since he's always predicted the opposite of the outcome of Nintendo.



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DarkDesent666 on 28 December 2011
Galaki said:
DarkDesent666 said:

2. Memory cards sold out for vita

That excuse doesn't even make sense even though you repeated that all over the places to damage control.

You might not want to look at week2 sales now, if you hadn't already.

I wouldn't buy a vita if I couldn't buy a memory card. How does it not make sense?



Alby_da_Wolf on 28 December 2011

Poor Vita, he just transd0m3d it into Morte. :''''(



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forest-spirit on 28 December 2011
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Poor Vita, he just transd0m3d it into Morte. :''''(


PS Morte sounds kinda badass though.