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miz1q2w3e on 06 September 2012



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jonnybmk on 06 September 2012

People have said, "Vita has not even been out for a year - it's to early to call it dead."

Yet we're now talking about it being "saved" after one good week in Japan???

WHOA! Crazy crazy.



VicViper on 06 September 2012
Moonhero said:
When it gets a Harvest Moon title, it will be saved... For me, that is.


The way Harvest Moon sold on 3DS a new game announcement could be called a MEGATON :D



Moonhero on 06 September 2012
VicViper said:
Moonhero said:
When it gets a Harvest Moon title, it will be saved... For me, that is.


The way Harvest Moon sold on 3DS a new game announcement could be called a MEGATON :D


True, unless it is a remake... Something all new would do wonders.



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VicViper on 06 September 2012
Moonhero said:


True, unless it is a remake... Something all new would do wonders.


They must bring her back

I'm almost certain the game sold well because of this cutie-pie

She could sell a remake of Harvest Moon Island of Happiness... for the 360

 

EDIT: Huh, she's holding a LL in her hand? But this game released in February!



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oni-link on 06 September 2012
Soriku said:
Teflon02 said:
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

Ratio is never, never a good metric for success when talking about video game sales. Publishers couldn't care less, all they want is hard numbers. If, hypothetically, this game (or really, any game) was released on the 3DS as well as the Vita and sold better on the 3DS than the Vita (say, a 50k-100k difference), the publishers would be much happier with the sales on the 3DS than the Vita. Same deal even if the situation was flipped. Ratio means nothing to them. There's no way a publisher would be happier with 100k over 200k sales even if the attach rate for the game that sold 100k was higher (not a very hard accomplishment either considering the Vita's low sales compared to the 3DS's).

What matters most is hard numbers and whether they were able to recoup costs, make a profit, and (possibly) expand the userbase. On the last point, it's not the highest selling Miku game so that's not the case. For the rest, only the publisher knows. The one guy on Twitter was saying a sequel would be hard to make but it just seems like a troll to garner more sales.

Turkish said:
FFX HD will be the turning point, mark my words. Millions of Japanese will flock to the system.


FF X HD will be big, but I don't see how a remaster of a 10+ year old game is going to be a turning point. It's not exactly FF VII remake. And besides, it's also on the PS3 (and FF games are more popular on consoles) so that really cuts the Vita's legs if it were going to have that turning point you speak of.


What's sad is that those numbers aren't even that great and to use them as tie-ratios shows how desperate PSV situation is in Japan at the moment.  Also, despite such a big game for the PSV;  it still was not able to surpass the 3DS in sales that week.  I have a feeling it'll be out of the top 10 next chart and Vita will be down to it's deplorable numbers(<10K) once again.



Turkish on 06 September 2012

Release FFX 1 week before the PS3 release and see how many Japanese flock to the Vita version!



Moonhero on 06 September 2012
VicViper said:
Moonhero said:


True, unless it is a remake... Something all new would do wonders.


They must bring her back

I'm almost certain the game sold well because of this cutie-pie

She could sell a remake of Harvest Moon Island of Happiness... for the 360

 

EDIT: Huh, she's holding a LL in her hand? But this game released in February!


Maybe she should sell Vitas? Her Bikini pic could be the BG on the Vita menu.



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Nem on 06 September 2012
Turkish said:
Release FFX 1 week before the PS3 release and see how many Japanese flock to the Vita version!


Thats what happens on la-la land. Do you see square doing that? Every game so far either has a simultaneous release or a later Vita release.



VicViper on 06 September 2012
Nem said:
Turkish said:
Release FFX 1 week before the PS3 release and see how many Japanese flock to the Vita version!


Thats what happens on la-la land. Do you see square doing that? Every game so far either has a simultaneous release or a later Vita release.


Time Travelers didn't! And Vita sold better!

 

Of course, in the end both flopped holding hands.