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MANUELF said:
logic56 said:
yeah and so was selling 13 million ps3s in 09 but they did that

Only after a redesign and a 100 dollars price cut, If they do the same for the vita then the forecast is possible

the point is that they did something big, it's baffeling how people would not look at this as any other than a confrimation of big things happing in the imediate future, but then again eveyone knows more about what Sony has planned than Sony does so there's that :/



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RolStoppable said:
VicViper said:

How many 3DS Nintendo forecast to ship this fiscal year, can anyone tell me?

18.5 million.

16 million was for the previous fiscal year. A target they didn't meet.

Do you think they can reach their target this time with the help of NSMB2 and maybe Animal Crossing?



sensebringer said:
RolStoppable said:
VicViper said:

How many 3DS Nintendo forecast to ship this fiscal year, can anyone tell me?

18.5 million.

16 million was for the previous fiscal year. A target they didn't meet.

Do you think they can reach their target this time with the help of NSMB2 and maybe Animal Crossing?

MH4 is probably for the end of the year too, so japan's part in this number is locked.



VicViper said:
sensebringer said:
RolStoppable said:
VicViper said:

How many 3DS Nintendo forecast to ship this fiscal year, can anyone tell me?

18.5 million.

16 million was for the previous fiscal year. A target they didn't meet.

Do you think they can reach their target this time with the help of NSMB2 and maybe Animal Crossing?

MH4 is probably for the end of the year too, so japan's part in this number is locked.

I hope so.



Yeah, it's a stretch alright even with the price cut. Without it they literally have to rely on big names games, but Call of Duty isn't enough. At most Call of Duty will move 1 million units, depending what game it is and how it looks.

Other Vita games that will (some mostly likely) appear at E3:

Assassian's Creed Vita: Hopefully it won't turn into a full game like the 3DS game... just kidding, but it did happen. Will this fit well against 3?

Bioshock Vita: It's not coming out this year because the dev said their focusing on Infinite, which is coming out in 2013. We'll probably see some shots or footage, at least a title.

Zone of the Enders Vita: Don't know what to say about this since we only heard a confirmation, the series doesn't seem to a big seller, based off of VGC's numbers.

LittleBigPlanet Vita: I heard this game got delayed or something to the end of the year. Guess we'll have to wait till E3 for a full confirmation on that.

Killzone Vita: Don't know anything about this, like ZoE I guess.

Sound Shapes: Looking forward to seeing the final product.

Street Fighter X Tekken Vita: It's not going to sell all that well, because of the console sales and it's a fighter on a handheld. It'll probably end up like Mortal Kombat Vita, but I see much bigger sales.

Silent Hill Book of Memories: Not even looking forward to this after that beta video.

If anything, these will appear at E3, I'm possibly missing some more but I only listed titles we don't much(or any) real information about. How do you guys think these titles will move sales?

On other note, these are 8 titles I've counted. Other Vita games include Gravity Rush, Ragnorak Odyessy, Orgarhythm, Madden NFL 13, and Persona 4: The Golden. Brings the total to 13. Will all of these be featured at E3?



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RolStoppable said:
sensebringer said:
RolStoppable said:

18.5 million.

16 million was for the previous fiscal year. A target they didn't meet.

Do you think they can reach their target this time with the help of NSMB2 and maybe Animal Crossing?

It's not going to be easy, considering that April to July will see pitiful sales in the West. Worldwide, they might not even ship 2m units in Q1 (April - June). There won't be another price cut, so they must have planned a redesign for this fiscal year.

A proper redesign and NSMB2 should make them hit their target. If they have a good lineup of games for the holiday season, they could even exceed 20m for this fiscal year, although I am not too hopeful after all the mismanagement in recent years. If they meet their forecast of 18.5m, then that's already good enough, because they had to repeatedly make downward adjustments in the last couple of years.

If thats the case I will sell my 3DS now so I can get some money for it. I hope that the redesign is the true successor of the great DS.



RolStoppable said:
sensebringer said:

Do you think they can reach their target this time with the help of NSMB2 and maybe Animal Crossing?

It's not going to be easy, considering that April to July will see pitiful sales in the West. Worldwide, they might not even ship 2m units in Q1 (April - June).

I don't see how they could fall short of 2m April-June. They're set to hit 1m for the quarter the week ending May 12, roughly the halfway point of the quarter. Most notably, the West hasn't seen a big release since mid-late March with Kid Icarus, and yet they're still on pace to hit 2m by the end of June. Throw a new game with "Mario" in the title into the mix and the 3DS is likely to have a sales boon in every region late May. New Pokémon games coming to Japan should boost 3DS hardware, too. Even though they're DS games, they have fuctionality with one of the new 3DS apps.