Well, people say this but it happened with DS, and 3DS it would seem...why can't it happen with WiiU?

It wasn't a short term strategy, it was a strategy that Nintendo tactically abandoned.

See, Wii sales are still rather good during the holiday. Huge, in fact. They make a lot on every console.

They simply stopped putting games on it, why? Because people will continue to buy the old ones, this propels their sales per game to a very efficient and healthy number, and makes their games look better, creating hype. Business wise, it makes more sense to make one game in 7 years that sells 10 m, than to make 2 that sell 12m combined.

As you said they want next BIG thing not a successor to machine which has been hanging on lifesupport since 2011.

While X360 is going to be PS2 of next generation for America and will sell well for at least a few years into new gen.

Yes, wii will likely get a 30-50$ price cut after this e3.

360 will likely get a 20-50$ price cut on the arcade to 149-179$, 50-70$ cut on the elite to 230-250$, plus a 50-100$ cut on the kinect bundle, moving it down to 299$ on announcement of the 720.

PS4 unlikely to have an announcement at e3, most likely waiting for tgs instead, as that is the start of the holiday season, perhaps 20-50$ price drop to 199-239$, or 20$ plus a game nobody likes :D

Yeah sure, no argument there. But how many and how huge were they in November? You really gonna try to compare the month that has Blck Friday deals with March? And I'm not saying that the gift cards don't have any impact, just that an official price cut does more. Obviously people knew about them, people were on the hunt for that shit Holiday time. Price cut now > gift cards.

Going by VGChartz numbers and the continual posts by majority around here stating that the console is either "Dead" or doing absolutely terrible and that it is very worrisome for SONY, I would say yes, many expected shitty numbers when NPD rolled around.

Now this makes one wonder how much stock we can put into VGChartz EMEAA numbers.

While it may or may not have a big impact, you have to remember that :

#1.) PSP and DS launched in a much different US economy.

#2.) What did you think people expected considering the PSP itself didn't have much of a foothold in the US prior to the Vita launch.

I don't think this is a real case of "Rose tinted glasses" but rather looking at things in context.

Yes, it isn't selling the same as 3DS did, but Vita didn't have a 50M+ selling predecessor to build off of.

I think he's specifically talking about your expectations.

Like above, you say 200k is poor, not awful, but people thought 3ds was bad. So, 3ds is bad, vita is poor in your own words.

Additionally, people said 3ds was bad and failing because we hadn't reevaluated the market properly. Now we can do that. We can't just call something poor simply because we called a misunderstood market poor before. It's not like people called the 3ds poor, so now we have to call the vita poor to be fair. That's like saying that previous to understanding learning disabilities, we called people stupid, so now we haev to continue to call them stupid because it would be unfair to those previously called stupid.

Vita sales, for the moment, are acceptable. They're not good, they're not great. They're within a range where people probably aren't getting fired over it.

You would be right to call them poor had the vita come out first, but since it didn't and since it's comparative to 3ds initial sales, we can accept them.

You already know how I feel about your charts.

It's "the truth" to align the launches and combine them for psv and 3ds, but not for other consoles.

Your argument is that 3ds didn't worldwide launch until later, so having the psv worldwide numbers is "innaccurate" but really, I just think it's an excuse. Why do I think that? Because the numbers are actually a lot closer in real time than they appear in your charts. Sony could have a small price drop, or a sales boost by the saem time-frame as the 3ds WW numbers, and that would keep the numbers more in line.

While your figures are good at showing vita underperforming in a short term, on a long term, it can quickly catch up with some heavy software. Sony even notes that the conversion rate for UNit 13 from demo to game is quite high, highlighting an interest in fps on the system, and foreshadowing a very well performing CoD.

Enjoy them while they last.

EDIT: It's also important for people to note that your chart is of the "doomed" variety. A chart with really a very small difference in height making a difference in lifetime seem bigger than they are. If we extrapolate the slope of the curves, we'd see end of lifetime difference of maybe 4-10m with no price drop. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff there.

I asked to author of Bloomberg article if the 125k is the Pachter prediction or real vita sales but I don't expected any response.