I have seen Amazon, Gamestop, and Target doing "buy two, get one" sales on (at least some) Vita software.

EDIT -- It's buy 2, get 1 FREE -- or three for the price of two.

Can anyone remember such a sale AT LAUNCH for any system?

I remember seeing Toys R Us doing those type of promotions the second holiday season of the Wii (when it was still hot and rare) and Target doing them perodically over the last couple of yeasr for all systems. But I never remember a system launching into a 33% sales.

Am I wrong about this?

And what might this mean for the system?

Mike from Morgantown

This means what we all expected: The Vita is not predicted to sell well.


"Buy two, get one"

I really hope you meant "buy two for the price of one"

IIIIITHE1IIIII said: This means what we all expected: The Vita is not predicted to sell well. "Buy two, get one" I really hope you meant "buy two for the price of one"

Buy two get one free, I think.

Target did it first, and then everybody followed. I don't think its indicative of anything besides target trying to get vita buyers in their store and the domino effect of price matching policies.

Seece said: IIIIITHE1IIIII said: This means what we all expected: The Vita is not predicted to sell well. "Buy two, get one" I really hope you meant "buy two for the price of one" Buy two get one free, I think.

Or maybe a third one for free? (unless that's what you said)

Its buy 2 get a 3rd free

also known as 3 for 2

IIIIITHE1IIIII said: This means what we all expected: The Vita is not predicted to sell well. "Buy two, get one" I really hope you meant "buy two for the price of one"

So by that definition. Retailers must have expected the 3DS to fail at launch too then. I remember seeing many stores doing a buy two, get one at the start.

One store always does this first, and then everyone matches it.
Target started it.
They're a bigbox store, hence, they're willing to trade profit on the games by getting people int the store and buying other things. Then everyone else copies them.
The gamestop version is buy 2 sony first party titles, get a third sony game free.
It's possible that Sony offered this deal, Target ballooned it to every title, and gamestop as usual is being a dick.

Wagram said: IIIIITHE1IIIII said: This means what we all expected: The Vita is not predicted to sell well. "Buy two, get one" I really hope you meant "buy two for the price of one" So by that definition. Retailers must have expected the 3DS to fail at launch too then. I remember seeing many stores doing a buy two, get one at the start.

Dear God...

I knew someone would throw that one at me but no, this is not even comparable. Amazon, Gamestop and Target are three concrete examples of great retailers trying to get this thing off their shelves. Now, please tell me which stores you remember doing this for the 3DS at launch.

And no, that's not a definition. It's an analysis.

IIIIITHE1IIIII said: Wagram said: IIIIITHE1IIIII said: This means what we all expected: The Vita is not predicted to sell well. "Buy two, get one" I really hope you meant "buy two for the price of one" So by that definition. Retailers must have expected the 3DS to fail at launch too then. I remember seeing many stores doing a buy two, get one at the start. Dear God... I knew someone would throw that one at me but no, this is not even comparable. Amazon, Gamestop and Target are three concrete examples of great retailers trying to get this thing off their shelves. Now, please tell me which stores you remember doing this for the 3DS at launch. And no, that's not a definition. It's an analysis.

Walmart, Gamestop, Amazon, Bestbuy. Also it wasn't throwing it in your face. It's a good tactic to do. Word needs to spread about the hardware and software at launch. What better way to do it than offer an incentive to customers to buy more software?