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It beat both Nintendo handhelds. Of course, it's saved.



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So that makes it the 2nd highest debut for the series combined...very good!!!



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

I'd say it's a positive sign, though one to watch.

Have to keep in mind the huge confluence of events that made it popular. Namely it's suddenly a "Big" name star... and coincidentally, said stars 5th anniversary of birth.

So, there is some worry that it was mostly people who just wanted an interactive Miku product... and won't really follow up on the vita, or be indicative of other big software.



No, it is not. There is still a long way to get there. Soon we'll see what's the support at TGS, then we'll have a clearer picture.

Btw, PSV will get below 10k again.



No... it's not. ;P
Hatsune Miku is still not enough. And about those (pretty good) first week numbers; my reasoning is people haven't had a real gravity (meaning, a game that makes people want to buy it) for a very long time.



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Poor Kid Icarus... didn't get as much recognition when it sold more than MIku :(
They only told me it flopped :(



VicViper said:
Poor Kid Icarus... didn't get as much recognition when it sold more than MIku :(
They only told me it flopped :(


That's actually true, but look at it this way. Look at the units of vita sold vs 3ds. The game has around 20% of the vita players in japan in 1 week and the second fastest selling vita game in japan after persona 4 the golden. I believe its also the second highest selling game already or 3rd in japan seeing the highest is persona with like 25% of the vitas with 210k+ sold. I don't remember kid icarus' sales but its ratio percentage was somewhere around 5-10% i think? To lazy to check :p but yeah it hasn't even sold a mill to date on 19m sold system. That's the reason they say that though i personally hated that game. I don't consider it a fail or anything of the sort I'd say decent. This on he other hand is a success because of the difference in ps vitas sold in japan and it actually made the system sell 5x the normal amount



I really like how attach ratio becomes the metric of success whenever it's oh so convenient...



Kenology said:
I really like how attach ratio becomes the metric of success whenever it's oh so convenient...


lol...I totally agree, it's kinda' sad actually. ;P



Well.. apparently it sold 400% increase in japan. But expect it to be down to 10k again in 2 weeks time.



Yay!!!