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Scisca on 13 April 2013

Haha. This is a surprising turn of events :) I doubt anyone saw that one coming. Though if selling a quarter million Vitas in Japan a month already leads to shortages, it shows that they must have really limited their Vita production capabilities. I hope that Vita settles at 30k in Japan once the shortages stop and we get one or two good games. We can only hope that when they cut the price in the West, the market responds in a similar way :)


Also - Kowenicki, do yourself and all of us a favour and find yourself an X720 thread and stay there, ok?



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Playstationfan12 on 13 April 2013

so this means that sales will most likely increase when thier is a better stock of vitas. lets hope it goes somewhere between 20-40k next week.



NiKKoM on 13 April 2013
Mnementh said:
NiKKoM said:
I'm sure sony could have found 10 chinese kids to produce those 5 to 10 thousand extra units a week..This is really bad management.. Its not like they need 100.000 extra units a week..

It's not that easy to ramp up production in the quality you want. But that said - Sony should have expected increasing sales and produced some units in preparation.

Yes I know, but 5000 really shouldn't be a problem at the production levels for a device like the Vita.. there are no components specially build for it..  Foxconn can handle that if Sony would pay the money..



 

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Lafiel on 13 April 2013
NiKKoM said:

Yes I know, but 5000 really shouldn't be a problem at the production levels for a device like the Vita.. there are no components specially build for it..  Foxconn can handle that if Sony would pay the money..

actually the SoC the Vita uses is a special chip - no other device has a tegra3 + SGX543mp4 GPU cores chip



Th3PANO on 13 April 2013

selling 30 k units with price drop isn't helpful for sony to be honest :/



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NiKKoM on 13 April 2013
Lafiel said:
NiKKoM said:

Yes I know, but 5000 really shouldn't be a problem at the production levels for a device like the Vita.. there are no components specially build for it..  Foxconn can handle that if Sony would pay the money..

actually the SoC the Vita uses is a special chip - no other device has a tegra3 + SGX543mp4 GPU cores chip

isn't it a quad-core Cortex A9? I thought they didn't went with nvidia ?



 

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Kresnik on 13 April 2013

Incorrect.  SMBU2000 says there are no shortages.  Get your facts straight, Sony.



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Lafiel on 13 April 2013
NiKKoM said:
Lafiel said:
NiKKoM said:

Yes I know, but 5000 really shouldn't be a problem at the production levels for a device like the Vita.. there are no components specially build for it..  Foxconn can handle that if Sony would pay the money..

actually the SoC the Vita uses is a special chip - no other device has a tegra3 + SGX543mp4 GPU cores chip

isn't it a quad-core Cortex A9? I thought they didn't went with nvidia ?

well, the tegra 3 is a quad-core (+ companion core)  ARM Cortex A9

the PS Vita CPU listed as the tegra 3 on a tech site I frequent, but yea, Sony might have changed that to a vanilla ARM A9 design, as the tegra 3 SoCs GPU is just too slow and they went with PowerVR there



BuckStud on 13 April 2013
kupomogli said:
Stop copying, Sony. Nintendo created artificial shortages first!

No company creates artificial shortages on a system that sells well, that would be stupid.  If you're referring to the shortages on the Wii, it sold far better than anyone had expected so the supply chains were not ready for the demand.



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Moren on 13 April 2013
BuckStud said:
kupomogli said:
Stop copying, Sony. Nintendo created artificial shortages first!

No company creates artificial shortages on a system that sells well, that would be stupid.  If you're referring to the shortages on the Wii, it sold far better than anyone had expected so the supply chains were not ready for the demand.

Actually, I think he meant the WiiU "shortages".