Yes, 22 of Feb. is the second launch week.

Edit: nvm

People, let it go. Call it week 0, prelaunch, soft launch, whatever. Fact of the matter is, you could not walk into a retailer/online and put down $250 and come out with a Vita before Feb 22nd thus, anything before that is not "launch". That is the launch price and launch date.

If you're going to be semanticy about it, then shouldn't the global launch have been when Japan launched since it is region free and everyone could import it? I would think the same logic implies if you want to call the FEB a "soft launch."

As for launch numbers, logically, anyone who bought the Vita First Edition Bundle would have bought the Vita on the first week of launch if there was no such bundle. Hell, most of them are paying a $100 premium for a case and the ability to get it a week early, thus, it is implied that 99.99999999999999% of them would buy it first week if there was no such bundle. So I say week ending Feb 25's numbers + FEB numbers = total launch numbers.

haters gonna hate, IMHO these are pretty good numbers considering the damn system didnt even have an OFFICIAL launch. It put it above DS, PSP and WIi, now that not much of an accomplishment against PSP and DS but im surprised its above the Wii considering its much more expensive and wasnt even available everywhere

This is the exact reason I don't like people calling it pre-launch. Firstly it was for sale to the general public, thus it had launched. But this idea that because it is week 0 that the actual launch week should be week 0+week 1, because hey people who bought it week 0 would have bought it week 1 .... if it hadn't been for sale.... but it was for sale. You may as well say ''Oh well everyone who bought a wii in the first month would have bought the Wii first week if they could, so first week Wii numbers are actually the first months. ''

This weeks numbers are the Vita's soft launch numbers, next weeks will be the hard launch. Using the word pre-launch is nonsensical. It implies that the system wasn't available for sale. 

oh and vgking there is a limited number of EVERY console at launch. The system was available to the masses. Anyone could have bought the first bundles, it wasn't some exclusive thing from having been a PSN member for X number of years or something. 

The only launch on the 25th was the Wi-fi only version. However the Vita itself was already launched. 

People we can argue about this for ages. The Vita launched on 2/15, offically. Games, accessories, and the system were available to buy. Some people were even able to buy the first edition afterwards.

Vita america did good enough for me. came in 4th ww with 88k, but Vita Japan isn't so hot, but still at my expectations.

all others doing great.

loving the TW numbers.

Your Wii analogy is not a good one. Point being that "All the people who bought the Wii in the first month would have bought one the first week if they could" isn't the same because the pricing of the Vita "First Edition Bundle" was not the same. True it was available to the public (only through certain retailers) but it was at a pretty high mark up for what you got. The people who bought the Wii first week paid the same amount of money as the people who bought it first month. The people who bought the Vita on Feb 15th paid at least $50 more and at most $100 more than they were going to spend if they bought it a week later.

It wasn't really a different SKU (so not quite so similar to people buying 360 elites or PS3 60GBs) it was paying $50 or so for the benefit of getting it a week earlier. I can't really think of a similar situation.

I guess it'd be like if a week before the PS3 launched, Sony said "you can buy the 20GB version a week early for 599 US dollars." I'm not really sure how that would have gone over.

I honestly don't care if the FEB is the "launch" or not, the actual launch numbers mean nothing except in fanboy arguments. Are people really going to care if a piece of HW sells a certain about week one vs. week 2 instead of the other way around. I mean, the demand over the 2 weeks isn't going to change right? So does it really matter?

LOL no the VITA was NOT able to everybody and the one that was being sold was the more expensive. Had it been sold at every retailer then we could say it was the official launch, but thats not the case is it??

Does it matter whether it had a "launch" or not (semantic discussion really) or whether the numbers should be added (you can add them yourself if you really want to)?

The bottom line is we can't draw many conclusions from these numbers and we have to wait until the Vita has its proper WW launch, or whatever you want to call it. We can't say it's done amazing nor horrible, we just can't compare this week to other console's launches.

So wait for next week, dammit!