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Forums - Sales Discussion - Tretton hoping for half-million PS Vita sales in first three weeks of US launch

Pineapple on 24 February 2012

For a comparison, here's the VGC data for some other systems in USA.

  3DS PsP X360 Wii Ps3 DS
Week 1 419,000 408,000 305,000 463,000 139,000 486,000
Week 2 94,000 170,000 82,000 153,000 57,000 171,000
Week 3 70,000 111,000 43,000 111,000 89,000 167,000
Total:  583,000 689,000 430,000 727,000 285,000 825,000

 

500,000 seems about reasonable. It won't have the same impact as the PsP did, and it's obviously no Wii or DS. In between 3DS and X360 definitely does seem the likely spot.



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VicViper on 24 February 2012
Pineapple said:

For a comparison, here's the VGC data for some other systems in USA.

  3DS PsP X360 Wii Ps3 DS
Week 1 419,000 408,000 305,000 463,000 139,000 486,000
Week 2 94,000 170,000 82,000 153,000 57,000 171,000
Week 3 70,000 111,000 43,000 111,000 89,000 167,000
Total:  583,000 689,000 430,000 727,000 285,000 825,000

 

500,000 seems about reasonable. It won't have the same impact as the PsP did, and it's obviously no Wii or DS. In between 3DS and X360 definitely does seem the likely spot.


The problem is not reaching 500 thousand right after the 3rd week, the problem is reaching this number and stall, like the japanese sales of the PS Vita

It's much more healthy to have stable good sales than 3 weeks of great sales and then pretty embarassing numbers onwards.



VicViper on 24 February 2012
VicViper said:
Pineapple said:

For a comparison, here's the VGC data for some other systems in USA.

  3DS PsP X360 Wii Ps3 DS
Week 1 419,000 408,000 305,000 463,000 139,000 486,000
Week 2 94,000 170,000 82,000 153,000 57,000 171,000
Week 3 70,000 111,000 43,000 111,000 89,000 167,000
Total:  583,000 689,000 430,000 727,000 285,000 825,000

 

500,000 seems about reasonable. It won't have the same impact as the PsP did, and it's obviously no Wii or DS. In between 3DS and X360 definitely does seem the likely spot.


The problem is not reaching 500 thousand right after the 3rd week, the problem is reaching this number and stall, like the japanese sales of the PS Vita

It's much more healthy to have stable good sales than 3 weeks of great sales and then pretty embarassing numbers onwards.


EDIT: Double post, sorry.

Clicked reply instead of edit :P



SOLIDSNAKE08 on 24 February 2012
MontanaHatchet said:
Actually I just checked and the 3DS, in its first 3 weeks in ALL of the Americas, sold about 600k. So no, I actually think that wouldn't be too bad of a figure.


guess tretton actually knows what hes talking about unlike the people here claiming sony are just aiming low so they can boast later.



SOLIDSNAKE08 on 24 February 2012
VicViper said:
Pineapple said:

For a comparison, here's the VGC data for some other systems in USA.

  3DS PsP X360 Wii Ps3 DS
Week 1 419,000 408,000 305,000 463,000 139,000 486,000
Week 2 94,000 170,000 82,000 153,000 57,000 171,000
Week 3 70,000 111,000 43,000 111,000 89,000 167,000
Total:  583,000 689,000 430,000 727,000 285,000 825,000

 

500,000 seems about reasonable. It won't have the same impact as the PsP did, and it's obviously no Wii or DS. In between 3DS and X360 definitely does seem the likely spot.


The problem is not reaching 500 thousand right after the 3rd week, the problem is reaching this number and stall, like the japanese sales of the PS Vita

It's much more healthy to have stable good sales than 3 weeks of great sales and then pretty embarassing numbers onwards.

america is very different to japan



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SnakeDrake on 24 February 2012

I think this is a Smart move Sony imagine the articles later on "Vita sales exceeds Sony's expectations"



 

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VicViper on 24 February 2012
SOLIDSNAKE08 said:
VicViper said:
Pineapple said:

For a comparison, here's the VGC data for some other systems in USA.

  3DS PsP X360 Wii Ps3 DS
Week 1 419,000 408,000 305,000 463,000 139,000 486,000
Week 2 94,000 170,000 82,000 153,000 57,000 171,000
Week 3 70,000 111,000 43,000 111,000 89,000 167,000
Total:  583,000 689,000 430,000 727,000 285,000 825,000

 

500,000 seems about reasonable. It won't have the same impact as the PsP did, and it's obviously no Wii or DS. In between 3DS and X360 definitely does seem the likely spot.


The problem is not reaching 500 thousand right after the 3rd week, the problem is reaching this number and stall, like the japanese sales of the PS Vita

It's much more healthy to have stable good sales than 3 weeks of great sales and then pretty embarassing numbers onwards.

america is very different to japan

People say this all the time, why?

To me, good games is the sales driving force everywhere.



Argh_College on 24 February 2012
MANUELF said:
I hope it does better in the united states than here in Mexico, my local video game store(gameplanet) had 0 preorders and have sold the huge amount of 0 units since launch :/

Americas is Xbox land, so im not surprised to here that.

Psp launched when Xbox wasnt popular in Americas, now its a different time, things have changed, yet i expect Vita to do better than Psp and steal some of that DS userbase.



radishhead on 24 February 2012

It could well reach that target - I think they're going to sell their entire shipment week 1



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Virus_Of_Life on 24 February 2012

Sony is using my favorite philosophy of: Aim really low, then your never disappointed =)