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Vita below 50k in April ?

Can someone tell me if there are some bigger titles coming to Vita during April or May ?



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Vita means a short biographical sketch. As in a professor's curriculum vitae, which is supposed to show his/her basic credentials and publications (equivalent to a resume). I guess it's ironic because the Vita may have a short life? In other words, why would Sony name their product a Latin word that implies brevity?



Barozi said:
Vita below 50k in April ?

Can someone tell me if there are some bigger titles coming to Vita during April or May ?


Not in Japan, but I guess that won't affect negatively its worldwide numbers by much.

In the west, I believe resistance and mortal kombat should boost the sales something.



Barozi said:
Vita below 50k in April ?

Can someone tell me if there are some bigger titles coming to Vita during April or May ?


Resistance: Burning Skies releases in April, I believe. Mortal Kombat may be releasing in the next couple of months aswell. Will be interesting to see if Resistance can boost hardware sales, seeing as it's the first dual-analog fps on a handheld.

Console MediaCreate VGChartz % Difference
3DS 94,011 66,198 -29.58%
PS3 25,750 24,679 -4.16%
PSP 19,875 18,252 -8.89%
PSV 10,302 10,092 -2.08%
Wii 9,270 7,744 -19.71%
DS 1,836 1,892 +2.96%
X360 1,333 1,225 -8.82%

Yeah... I'm not sure how ioi got these numbers... especially with the 3DS being off by almost 30k.

Another funny thing, if he used the MediaCreate numbers instead of his own Wii would be ahead of the Vita.

Wii with MC: 77,005
Vita with MC: 76,956



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Smeags said:
Console MediaCreate VGChartz % Difference
3DS 94,011 66,198 -29.58%
PS3 25,750 24,679 -4.16%
PSP 19,875 18,252 -8.89%
PSV 10,302 10,092 -2.08%
Wii 9,270 7,744 -19.71%
DS 1,836 1,892 +2.96%
X360 1,333 1,225 -8.82%

Yeah... I'm not sure how ioi got these numbers... especially with the 3DS being off by almost 30k.

Another funny thing, if he used the MediaCreate numbers instead of his own Wii would be ahead of the Vita.

Wii with MC: 77,005
Vita with MC: 76,956

Hmm, too much difference for Wii too, even if it's less than 2k. 20% is a lot, I don't buy that.



evrything except 3ds is very disappointing.



Starting to get real slow, all home consoles will likely hover around and under the 100k mark within 6-7 weeks unless something amazing happens.



amaral_slb said:
Sorry, but there is no way I believe those Hardware WW numbers for the PS3 and 360.
Are they down on last year? Considering Jan and Feb NPD plus the UK video game retail reports there is no doubt, but in my mind there is no way the 360 is down to 109k and PS3 146k this early in the year.

Another strange thing, why is the Wii maintaining sales in March while the HD twins are free falling, when there are solid multiplats coming every week for the systems plus good deals to purchase both while the Wii is stagnant waiting for Xenoblade help?

Another thing that makes little sense to me considering NPD numbers, the PS3 has been outselling the 3ds this year, in Feb the margin was surprisingly large between both (100k). Why did VGC make huge adjustments on PS3 (PS3 was actually 40k behind the 3ds before), just to report first week of march where it beat the 3ds by just 100 units .

Once again, not trying to be a douche or anything, VGC has 100x more data to back those numbers, but in my eyes they will have to make some adjustments on a slow part of the year (not good considering future console releases plus holiday season) when "official" numbers come in.

If those numbers are true, then price drops will not be enough, console revisions have to be announced at E3.



Its true, hardware across the board is massively down.

 

Face it people the generation is dying, I love my current gen consoles but both MS and Sony are crazy if they don't launch a new console in 2013



Smeags said:
Console MediaCreate VGChartz % Difference
3DS 94,011 66,198 -29.58%
PS3 25,750 24,679 -4.16%
PSP 19,875 18,252 -8.89%
PSV 10,302 10,092 -2.08%
Wii 9,270 7,744 -19.71%
DS 1,836 1,892 +2.96%
X360 1,333 1,225 -8.82%

Yeah... I'm not sure how ioi got these numbers... especially with the 3DS being off by almost 30k.

Another funny thing, if he used the MediaCreate numbers instead of his own Wii would be ahead of the Vita.

Wii with MC: 77,005
Vita with MC: 76,956


Weird. Did Famitsu show some completely different numbers or what's going on here? And I find it hard to believe that MC would be that far off on a console that sells less than 100k/week...