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Forums - Sales Discussion - November 2013 NPD Thread! Everything is in the OP!

theprof00 said:
Wanderlei said:
DamnTastic said:
mibuokami said:

More like smother it to death. :(

I love my Vita like I love my Sega Saturn. Despite being the failure that it was, it was one of my favourite console.

I love mine too.

Sonys next gen HH should be a android based mobile phone hybrid or something.
It plays dem HH games and mobile and you can call people. Something like that :P

It is extremely unlikely there will be another Sony handheld.

Or perhaps more frightening - push Playstation Mobile to the forefront and have the company focus on smartphones, tablets, f2p, paid subscriptions, and micro-transactions. It's not pretty.

But even thats looking unlikely now since Kaz lost the contract with Japan's largest carrier who is now bringing the iPhone 5 to it's network to replace Sony as it's main brand of phones.

 

you must be new here throwing around wild predictions like that as fact.


Does anyone except rampant sony fanboys seriously think there is even the slightest chance? Vita needed to sell better than the PSP for any hopes of a successor. If Sony had someone competent to run the company they would have knocked it on the head already.



-Sony has 17 billion dollars worth of debt
-Sony's market cap value is only 18.5 billion dollars
-Sony share price is only worth 10% what it was 10 years ago.
-At its peak it was $200 per share, today only $17
-Getting destroyed by Samsung and LG in consumer electronics,
-Apple destroyed them with the iPod and iPhone
-Junk Status rating
-Lost well over $8 billion on the ps3, more than their ps1/2 profits combined
-Losing $2 billion plus on the Vita
-Sacked 50,000 people in last 5 years
-Sold both Japan and US headquarters to avoid an embarrassing 5 years lose streak

But now Sony are gonna pump money in to something that is guaranteed to lose them even more money?

 

 

 

 



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Lots of very good numbers, some very depressing ones as well though.

At least I'm pleased that next gen CoD is overtracked as I predicted.



I just got the latest Cream + Sugar info now...

3+4>1+360, the gap is < 10k

PS3 + PS4 = 909k + 647k + 10k
PS3 + PS4 = ~1566k

The closest numbers are:

PS4 ~1150k
PS3 ~410k

I think we can close with these numbers... can be 1140k + 420k but it is to close to complain.

BTW

PS4 camera < 130K 



Can we assume that Black Friday had zero effect on the PS Vita's sales? A 33% price drop couldn't raise sales.



kowenicki said:
So PS4 looks slightly more overtracked than the ONE. approx 120k v 27k. But both are pretty well tracked.

Everyone is happy, everyone can relax.

Well... except for WiiU and Vita owners.

PS4: 100k
Xbone: 60k

There are the differences for VGC numbers.



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Do we have Vita numbers yet?



Wow, Vita really is dead in the US.

Let's hope the niche JRPGs keep coming.



POE said:
Do we have Vita numbers yet?

70-75k



ethomaz said:
POE said:
Do we have Vita numbers yet?

70-75k


Thanks.



Well, this was... expected. Post-holiday adjustments will be quite big, it seems.

I think the next PS handheld, if there will ever be such a thing (unlikely now that Xperia is actually relevant again) should be called the Playstation Morte.