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zorg1000 on 28 January 2016
hiska-kun said:
zorg1000 said:
BlowoverKing said:

Kind of a random question but does anyone have some historical total LTD numbers for Vita and PSP , specifically launch aligned if possible? 

The only reason I ask is that I got bored earlier and went digging through some of the older weekly sales pages here on VGC and noticed something. The PSP sucked ass as far as software went in Japan, especially at the same point in it's life as the Vita is right now and I just want to see if VGC is accurate.

According to VGC (and if I aligned them correctly) here's what the situation looked like:

 

  • PSP Hardware - 11,246,086, Software - 23,190,670 (2.06:1)
  • PSV Hardware -  4,521,596,  Software - 17,228,250 (3.81:1)
From a hardware perspective Vita has only sold 40% as many consoles as the PSP but as far as software it's sold 75% as many games. Now the PSP did make a decent comeback thanks to Monster Hunter exploding and a late surge in 2010/2011 but I was suprised by how terrible it did from 2004-2008. 
Did the PSP just not have many games releasing or were people just not buying games for it?

 

Wasn't piracy a major issue on PSP? I haven't heard about that being much of an issue for Vita.

Piracy and Japan don't match together, if we talk about piracy in a japanese sales thread you don't really know much about japanese culture.

Once, I told to a friend of mine to watch a movie that I enjoyed. When he realized that I download it, he was surprised and even scared. He told me that this is a crime, and you can go to prison for that. 

Piracy is almost no existent in Japan.

I was unaware of that, thanks for the info.





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Pavolink on 28 January 2016

3DS in top. Nice.



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outlawauron on 28 January 2016
zorg1000 said:
BlowoverKing said:

Kind of a random question but does anyone have some historical total LTD numbers for Vita and PSP , specifically launch aligned if possible? 

The only reason I ask is that I got bored earlier and went digging through some of the older weekly sales pages here on VGC and noticed something. The PSP sucked ass as far as software went in Japan, especially at the same point in it's life as the Vita is right now and I just want to see if VGC is accurate.

According to VGC (and if I aligned them correctly) here's what the situation looked like:

 

  • PSP Hardware - 11,246,086, Software - 23,190,670 (2.06:1)
  • PSV Hardware -  4,521,596,  Software - 17,228,250 (3.81:1)
From a hardware perspective Vita has only sold 40% as many consoles as the PSP but as far as software it's sold 75% as many games. Now the PSP did make a decent comeback thanks to Monster Hunter exploding and a late surge in 2010/2011 but I was suprised by how terrible it did from 2004-2008. 
Did the PSP just not have many games releasing or were people just not buying games for it?

 

Wasn't piracy a major issue on PSP? I haven't heard about that being much of an issue for Vita.

Yes, that + multimedia functions all in one contributed to a low attach rate. Piracy isn't as big in Japan (even though R4 cards were sold openly).



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OneKartVita on 28 January 2016

Yeah stock problems reported for builders. This is good if they can send another shipment so soon. The dragon quest fans are doing their part but square will have to do a budget price in a few weeks to try and grab that million + minecraft market over the next 12 months.



AZWification on 28 January 2016

WiiU will probably drop below 10k soon enough...



                
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Kresnik on 28 January 2016

Dengeki up in 2nd post



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Teeqoz on 28 January 2016
Kresnik said:
Dengeki up in 2nd post

I was just about to quote you and ask if you had software totals from Dengeki, then I decided to check first, and saw this

 

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Kresnik said:

And just for Teeqoz, software:

Models January 18 week estimated number of sales January 18 week composition ratio (%) 2015 estimated number of sales 2015 composition ratio (%)
PS4 198,101 35.1% 3,846,470 13.2%
PS3 99,014 17.6% 2,200,691 7.6%
Vita 55,976 9.9% 3,973,870 13.7%
PSP 1,166 0.2% 128 and 134 0.4%
Wii U 43,417 7.7% 3,306,634 11.4%
3DS 165,012 29.3% 15,567,429 53.5%
X One 1,434 0.3% 67,214 0.2%
Total 564,120 100.0% 29,090,442 100.0%





binary solo on 28 January 2016
RolStoppable said:
3DS: Great.
Wii U: Good.
PS4: Mediocre.
PSV: Decent.
X1: Still tracked.

Nah man. PS4 is at least decent. Mediocre would mean you expected>40K for PS4 for the week, and considering the new releases for PS4 that's probably an unrealistic expectation. 30K for PS4 for the week would have been good.





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Sprash on 28 January 2016
binary solo said:
RolStoppable said:
3DS: Great.
Wii U: Good.
PS4: Mediocre.
PSV: Decent.
X1: Still tracked.

Nah man. PS4 is at least decent. Mediocre would mean you expected>40K for PS4 for the week, and considering the new releases for PS4 that's probably an unrealistic expectation. 30K for PS4 for the week would have been good.

Well he loves sony and the ps4 so he wants them to do even better hence the wiiu being "good"





 

 

Ruler on 28 January 2016

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