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VGKing on 19 April 2012
TruckOSaurus said:

Wii looks positively horrible right now.

Why is Japan buying more PSPs than Vitas? Also, they seem to love the 3DS, it's outselling NA which shouldn't happen considering it's a much bigger market.


Because PSP is the one getting all the games right now.



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Conegamer on 19 April 2012

Also, Xenoblade sales at 44k in the US for this week. We're looking at 55-60k WW this week, highly respectable!



 

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VicViper on 19 April 2012
theprof00 said:
VicViper said:

As we just learned, it's better to wait for NPD or official numbers to say anything. I believe, for instance, Vita is undertracked in Americas again. Shipped numbers can't come soon enough

But let me talk about Japan, since it's close to official numbers as we can get.
Vita is going thru hell! Only logic56 can view those numbers as good, because to me they are disastrous. It's really looking to be a PS2-GC type of domination for the 3DS there - with two major differences, it's getting there way faster and this time the top seller has ALL major franchises at their disposal (including obviously Nintendo first party).

I believe the vita lineup for Japan is looking a lot stronger than it ever did for gaemcube. There's a release this week, right?

This week it has Lumines

Next week it has Ciel no Surge

May there's no major games coming.

But like always, I'm not arguing quality - I believe Vita has a great library of quality games already - but sales... and with the only exception of Soul Sacrifice (exception for it being a wild card not a certainty yet), no announced games can change this outcome - just like a major title like SSBM (1,4 mi sold in japan) coudn't save the Gamecube, imagine if Hatsune Miku could?

In the near future, It will be just not feasible for third parties not to release their games on the 8 million user base system over the 1 million other system, imo.



TruckOSaurus on 19 April 2012
VGKing said:
TruckOSaurus said:

Wii looks positively horrible right now.

Why is Japan buying more PSPs than Vitas? Also, they seem to love the 3DS, it's outselling NA which shouldn't happen considering it's a much bigger market.


Because PSP is the one getting all the games right now.


I thought PSV had backwards compatibility?



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radishhead on 19 April 2012
TruckOSaurus said:
VGKing said:
TruckOSaurus said:

Wii looks positively horrible right now.

Why is Japan buying more PSPs than Vitas? Also, they seem to love the 3DS, it's outselling NA which shouldn't happen considering it's a much bigger market.


Because PSP is the one getting all the games right now.


I thought PSV had backwards compatibility?

It's some weird backwards compatability that requires you to download PSP stuff to your PS3 and then download it back to your Vita - I'm not sure exactly how it works, or if all games support it



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benao87 on 19 April 2012
TruckOSaurus said:
VGKing said:


Because PSP is the one getting all the games right now.


I thought PSV had backwards compatibility?


No, it isn't. And to make things worse, it seems that for PSP are being developed a lot more titles than for PSV.

radishhead said:
What's the % up/down from last week?


Last Week This Week Diff.
3DS  193,015  174,341 -9.67%
PS3  170,125  163,783 -3.73%
X360  169,648  132,959 -21.63%
Wii  77,502  71,227 -8.10%
PSV  72,994  65,566 -10.18%
PSP  34,888  31,364 -10.10%
DS  29,574  28,076 -5.07%


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VicViper on 19 April 2012
spurgeonryan said:
@ vicviper

What is the next guarantee to sell vita title coming out in Japan? 25,000 copies or more.


I  really don't know, but 2 weeks from now Ciel no surge might do those number or more - some say it's a big game, some say it's not - but 25k to me is pretty doable - I'm betting on the 40k zone. After that, Gundam, in the beggining of June.



Panama on 19 April 2012

Vita sells more in NA than Europe yet again...I don't get it. Aren't Sony dumping all their marketing budget into Europe?



theprof00 on 19 April 2012
radishhead said:
TruckOSaurus said:
VGKing said:
TruckOSaurus said:

Wii looks positively horrible right now.

Why is Japan buying more PSPs than Vitas? Also, they seem to love the 3DS, it's outselling NA which shouldn't happen considering it's a much bigger market.


Because PSP is the one getting all the games right now.


I thought PSV had backwards compatibility?

It's some weird backwards compatability that requires you to download PSP stuff to your PS3 and then download it back to your Vita - I'm not sure exactly how it works, or if all games support it

You don't have to download to ps3, you can download psp games directly to your vita. Vita is fully backward compatible with psp.