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Will Vita sell more than 400,000 this year in the US?

Yes. 23 56.10%
 
nope. 18 43.90%
 
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yoscrafty on 25 March 2015

I can't think of a major seller being released on Vita in the US last year besides the Borderlands bundle that came out mid year. But if Vita is selling that much in the first two months of the year with pretty much the same lack of support and publicity. I think it's very possible.

My guess (and hope) is that positive word of mouth of the Vita spread among gamers. I can't think of any big push that was made for this thing in the last few months that would explain this increase in sales.



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Mr.GameCrazy on 26 March 2015

Sounds likely. In fact, I just ordered a PS Vita online with a 32 GB memory card. I think that's a good size for a memory card, but I wish it wasn't so expensive.



BlowoverKing on 26 March 2015
RolStoppable said:

Stop dropping f-bombs.

As far as I know, US retailers got rid of their PSV TV stock last month, so that's the main reason for the sales increase this year. Let's say the initial shipment was somewhere in the range of 100-125k for the USA, so retailers got rid of 40k-something dust collectors in February. These guesstimates aside though, the point here is that the Vita had a one-time boost that is not going to repeat. Something similar happened last year in May when the Vita sold between 50-60k because of the new model that came with Borderlands 2. So come June, the Vita won't be up by much year over year anymore. 2014's December was also decent for Vita standards and won't be easy to match with a virtually empty release schedule. So I wouldn't say that you are making an easy prediction.

Even if we forget about Vita TV it's still ~63k vs 35k in 2015s favor.

Besides, you're forgetting what an absolute disaster Vita really and truely was in 2014. So far in the first two months of 2015 it's sold ~100k  units whereas in 2014 Vita sold a bit above 130k through June. Hell there was three months last year where the Vita didn't even sell above 10k units (March, April, and August). The only real hurdle left this year is the 140k it pulled in December.



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