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Forums - Sales - Global UP! 7th July- 3DS 143k, PS3 123k, 360 88k, Vita 48k, Wii 43k

Chark on 12 July 2012

This is not the all time low for the Vita, that goes to May 12th with 44,717.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

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Andrespetmonkey on 12 July 2012
happydolphin said:
Andrespetmonkey said:

The big difference with the vita is the dual analogs. This may not seem like a big deal, but for an FPS it is absolutely essential (unless you connect a mouse and keyboard to the vita) and gives FPS's on the vita some... potential. Still extremely skeptical over whether CoD will do anything spectacular for Vita though, but the 2nd analog and PS3-ish quality visuals give it a decent chance! I think!

Yap, that's a fair difference. You might be right, so we'll see.

Without wanting to be negative, and to bring points to the table, I'll try to be positive in bringing up a consideration for this.

I think it could happen, but consider other genres that are less dependent on dual analog. Take GTA. It did very well on PSP, but not near the home console counterparts.

True that now the dual-analog will remove a prior barrier, but the console to portable genre ratio is still a big gap. I'd be still shocked to see anything enourmous, but I wouldn't mind being surprised!

Here are the numbers:

PosGamePlatformYearGenrePublisherNorth AmericaEuropeJapanRest of WorldGlobal
1 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PS2 2004 Action Take-Two Interactive 9.43 8.48 0.41 2.49 20.81
2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City PS2 2002 Action Take-Two Interactive 8.41 5.49 0.47 1.78 16.15
3 Grand Theft Auto III PS2 2001 Action Take-Two Interactive 6.99 4.51 0.30 1.30 13.10
4 Grand Theft Auto IV X360 2008 Action Capcom 5.87 2.74 0.13 0.95 9.69
5 Grand Theft Auto IV PS3 2008 Action Take-Two Interactive 4.13 3.24 0.39 1.43 9.18
6 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories PSP 2005 Action Take-Two Interactive 2.81 2.68 0.22 1.68 7.38
7 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories PSP 2006 Action Take-Two Interactive 1.65 1.80 0.15 1.11 4.71

Still, the best PSP version was pretty close to the PS3 version, so there is hope. However, the PS2 version was the phenomenon, and COD is currently a phenomenon. If going by past trends, we could be hopeful that COD vita could sell half of COD PS3. So, that would be around 

4 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 PS3 2011 Shooter Activision 5.22 4.50 0.40 1.93 12.04

6 million units.

That would be almost a 4million increase from usual shooters on portable platforms like the PSP. Well, keep that number in mind :)

Oh don't get me wrong, when I say potential I mean like 3m instead of 1m, 6m would be fantastic. I'm not expecting it to perform anywhere near as well as it does on PS3 and sell a crapton of vitas and make Sony arab money, but it'll help.

On GTA, now that's a game for Vita that you could put some faith into. Especially if it's a san andreas stories! GTA + Price drop for summer (not fall, so it doesn't get buried in next-gen home consoles) in 2013 should be on Sony's mind, and hopefully RS has been working on it so this is a possibility.



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Jay520 on 12 July 2012

For the Vita, any big name title will help a lot. It doesn't even have to sell big to help. But at the moment, really any titles with a relatively large fanbase will help the Vita. CoD may not go pushing consoles initially (I dont think it will) but it'll likely be a game that makes the overall library look good. It'll probably push a fair amount of consoles in the long term.



happydolphin on 12 July 2012
Andrespetmonkey said:

Oh don't get me wrong, when I say potential I mean like 3m instead of 1m, 6m would be fantastic. I'm not expecting it to perform anywhere near as well as it does on PS3 and sell a crapton of vitas and make Sony arab money, but it'll help.

On GTA, now that's a game for Vita that you could put some faith into. Especially if it's a san andreas stories! GTA + Price drop for summer (not fall, so it doesn't get buried in next-gen home consoles) in 2013 should be on Sony's mind, and hopefully RS has been working on it so this is a possibility.

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Jay520 on 12 July 2012
pezus said:
Conegamer said:
spurgeonryan said:
3DS fighting with PS3 this week for first. So global Hardware only...no software yet? I want to see if the 360 versions of games really out sell the PS3 versions, even though on a weekly basis the PS3 outsells the 360./

The only SW up are in the 3rd post; the UK and the USA.

And the 3DS is 20k clear of the PS3, so they're hardly fighting for 1st. More likely, the PS3 is fighting to stay above 100k...

How's that for logic?

PS3 is 22k clear of 100k



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ethomaz on 12 July 2012

Tha's show how PS3 and 3DS are fighting for the first (240k for the year).

http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2012/Global/



Jay520 on 12 July 2012

Conegamer, you're supposed to leave a link to the VGChartz page. Because of you, I have to waste my time clicking through a series a of links on a website I'm not even familiar with and I have to waste more time writing this post for you!



Jay520 on 12 July 2012
spurgeonryan said:
small44 said:
spurgeonryan said:


As we have seen by the Vita thread on this site, everyone is very excited for the Vita. But the problem is how long are people going to wait for all these games to come out? I think that All-star battle game is the one that will make the Vita big. It needs to come out this Christmas.



call of dutty will make vita big for this year.


This conversation was in last weeks Global thread. I am one who says that this will not help much. But others say it will. So I guess we will just have to wait and see. According to history though, FPS sales have not been great on Handhelds. There have been some good sellers though.



I don't see how you think Battle Royale will make the Vita big, yet you think Call or Duty will not. Call of Duty is definitely going to be bigger than Battle Royale.

Mad55 on 12 July 2012

Sales are pretty low summer is always like this so im not suprised though. I think theaterhythm will do better when the xl comes out or during the holidays.



small44 on 13 July 2012

Fifa can also help much more the psvita then psp.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m