I don't see why they're acting like the 3DS is a good role model to follow, it's sales have been awful. Just because the 3DS crashed and burned resulting in a last ditch effort of a whopping 1/3 price cut in order to increase sales, doesn't mean Sony has to follow suit...:| I mean consoles always vary greatly in price, I don't see hy handhelds couldn't also...
People in Japan are extremely excited for the PSVita and it just needs good advertising in other regions. It already has a great lineup of games.
StealthMonkey4
I really wish people would stop with the awful sales nonsense. It sold 3.6 million units by the end of March (which was a month and a bit in Japan and less than a week everywhere else), the Wii sold 3.19million by the end of 2006 (which was a month and a bit in America and around a month everywhere else.) The Wii launched right around Christmas, it was a brand new console with crazy controls, it got tons of advertising and spread a lot by word of mouth. The 3DS came out in March, it had very few new games that people hadn't seen elsewhere, most people though it was another DS, and yet it STILL sold more than the Wii did. The sales have slowed down yes, because it's the middle of the year, and yes there's been a price cut, but that's as much to do with the announcement of Nintendo's main freaking rivals console which shockingly is the same price, as it is the sales.
And just for fun, Nintendo DS sales: NA release-November 21st, Japanese, December 2nd, (only two territories sure but hold on), sales by end of December: 2.84 million. By the end of March (after European and Austrlian launches), 5.27 million.
And for even more fun, the sales increase between the last known sales and the sales after that second Christmas (which in 2007 is when the Wii really took off):
Wii: 30th September- 13.17 million, 31st December-20.13 million
DS: 30th September - 8.83 million, 31st December - 13.43 million.
Looks like a lot of people are looking at the final sales numbers and going "OMG 3DS hasn't sold 140 million like the DS, what a flop!!!" when those system themselves didn't take off into crazy numbers until after a few Christmases, in fact it was the 2006 Christmas where the DS went mental selling 9 million in 3 months, when it had only sold 12 million in the other 9. It was only after that that the sales really started getting bonkers and you have it almost doubling its sales in 2007, 35 to 64 million.
And yes I know what you're going to say "But Nintendo themselves have said they're dissapointed in the 3DS sales!!! The problem seems to be that Nintendo themselves have forgotten that even their crazy popular systems took a little while to get going, so releasing the 3DS in March without a killer launch line up and expecting instant uber-sales was a bit stupid.
I do agree that the Vita doesn't need a price cut though, they simply need to market it properly and make people aware of what it can do and help explain to the general public the vast amount of features it has, without doing what they did with the PSP which was "Hey look a Playstation in your pocket, remember the Playstation and how you loved it, yeah? Good well give us money. Oh and it plays movies as well or some ****"
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