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Media Create Sales: Week 43, 2012 (Oct 22 - Oct 28)
- Thread starter Chris1964
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test_account
XP-39C²
How so?
Sorry didn't mean that, bad wording from me.
Shalashaska161
Member
Man I feel bad for the Vita, it doesn't deserve this.
Japan loves their Dark Souls and Bravely Default though. Glad both of them were hits.
Japan loves their Dark Souls and Bravely Default though. Glad both of them were hits.
The perfect Dark
Banned
The vita doesn't deserve this, but sony....
Shrug. If anyone can give me a reasonable way, grounded in some sort of reality, where Vita recovers I'm all ears.
The Vita is dead. I know each week is like groundhog day but its just amazing how much of failure this has been for sony. Even the biggest pessimist would not of thought the vita would bomb this bad.
I rememeber a few months back when the sales were tanking and some people were saying "Vita will be ok". Do these people still believe that and if so why?
I rememeber a few months back when the sales were tanking and some people were saying "Vita will be ok". Do these people still believe that and if so why?
Wait for Jump Festa!
Father_Brain
Banned
And speaking as one of them, you're right.
test_account
XP-39C²
Not bad wording, i understood what you ment
The 3DS was already very popular when the 3DS LL came, and the Vita was already selling bad at that time. So i was just wondering in what way you ment it was funny because it is no big surprise that the 3DS LL will pass the Vita when the trends has been going on for some months =)I dont know why Capcom didnt get it out for the 3DS a well.
It's a marathon not a sprint.
Ohyou.jpg xD
Vita dead and BD havind strong legs is non-news. Two X360-games in the Top Twenty is the actual news. These games deserved it btw
Count Dookkake
Member
Vita under 6k, is this a new low?
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
[PS2] Zone of the Enders – 75,624 / 120,656 <62.6%>
[PS2] Zone of the Enders (Konami the Best) – ---,--- / 1,010
[PS2] Anubis Zone of the Enders – 66,128 / 97,296 <67.9%>
[PS2] Anubis Zone of the Enders Special Edition – 16,136 / 35,533
[PS3] Zone of the Enders HD Edition – 44.751
[PS3] Street Fighter X Tekken – 54,599 / 72,079 <75.7%>
[360] Street Fighter X Tekken – 8,115 / 8,115
[PSV] Street Fighter X Tekken – 4.813
Solid holds for Taiko, Bravely Default, NSMB2, and Tousouchuu. All of these are about to take off again soon with hardware boosts and holidays.
FIFA dropped like a rock.
[PS2] Zone of the Enders (Konami the Best) – ---,--- / 1,010
[PS2] Anubis Zone of the Enders – 66,128 / 97,296 <67.9%>
[PS2] Anubis Zone of the Enders Special Edition – 16,136 / 35,533
[PS3] Zone of the Enders HD Edition – 44.751
[PS3] Street Fighter X Tekken – 54,599 / 72,079 <75.7%>
[360] Street Fighter X Tekken – 8,115 / 8,115
[PSV] Street Fighter X Tekken – 4.813
Solid holds for Taiko, Bravely Default, NSMB2, and Tousouchuu. All of these are about to take off again soon with hardware boosts and holidays.
FIFA dropped like a rock.
They didn't. Console DLC came out months ago when they realized the Vita version was gonna sell like 4 copies.
How can you say it doesn't deserve it when Sony stubbornly released a dedicated handheld fully knowing the state of the market?
Napalm_Frank
Member
Vita needs pricedrop yesterday.
I believe Vita can be resurrected but software is not enought. Pricedrop needs to be priority.
I believe Vita can be resurrected but software is not enought. Pricedrop needs to be priority.
At this point, the Vita is slowed down to a shuffle, is panting heavily, and now is eyeing the donut shop across the road.
test_account
XP-39C²
The state of the japanese handheld market is (and was at the time) strong.
It deserves better than how Sony is handling it. It's not debatable that the hardware is godlike and destroys the 3DS hardware. Just.... Sony. It has no chance, its dead now.
Napalm_Frank
Member
How would a price drop on the 30th have helped the sales from 22nd-28th?
>.<
StickSoldier
Member
So, I wonder if the demos that SE released for BD helped the sales because I seriously wasn't expecting it to do this good.
Lord_Byron28
Member
The difference is the PS3 and PSP had major support announced at launch from SE, konami, rockstar, capcom and others. Vita had none of these and they don't have anything major unless you count soul sacrifice and final fantasy X which are iffy at best.
Or that the 4 biggest franchises in Japan will be headed towards the system. Its not a mystery why 3ds is selling well.
there's nothing wrong with releasing a dedicated gaming handheld in Japan at least. Their major problem amongst others is that they went for the exact same strategy they did with PS3 and PSP. That strategy failed and they were only able to have a miraculous turn around due to luck and good will from the PS2.
clay_ghost
Member
But from what we see, BD is a much better game. It totally deserve the sales , now bring it to us
Canis lupus
Member
It is not. Vita will do good, I believe in it. Next year will be a turnaround. I know people like to call doom on a system early but you forget that:
Its stil the 1st year
No games yet
No pricecut yet
and no new revision yet
Once all these don't help then you have a legitimate claim that it is dead.
Damo Yoshi
Member
That avatar combined with how fantastic this game is performing and how much I want it... ;_; (Although, you'll forever be Pit to me young man/ lady~
)These are good times in good places Nintendo... now please invest all those yen for Western development. *bow bow*
AnkiRendan
Member
SFxT Vita bombed? Good riddance!
Out of all those 4 points the most important one is the games and I ask where are those games going to come from? Sony aint doing anything for it and going forward with the PS4 the Vita will become even more reliant on 3rd parties. Now with these sales I think 3rd parties will continue to look at the 3DS as the 'go to system'. What reasons do they have to go with the Vita instead?
Magicpaint
Member
Nice to see BD holding up.
To do a turnaround in 2013 Vita needs games and since no announcements were made I think it's over.
zerokoolpsx
Member
SFxT Vita bombed hard.
Essentially. "Wait for TGS" wasn't just a meme joke. It was a statement of fact.
Look, we've gone through every exclusive that was supposed to save it during its first year, nothing stuck, and not much is really on the horizon. Outside of some niche developers, support is really drying up. Sales keep dropping, and Sony is showing to be really resistant on doing what needs to be done to turn it all around.
The Vita is doing poorly and its future prospects are not good. To say otherwise is delusional and is, quite frankly, depressing to see people actually believing.
Wonder if 3DL LL would outsell PSP + PSV combined for the year.
It is still strong but it doesn't mean Japanese gamers would just go out to buy a handheld that doesn't have the content that interests them.
metalslimer
Member
Well I'm glad you "believe" it, but outside of magic fairy dust it isn't happening. Vita's big games of the future is a PSP port and a violent MH clone coming out the same month as MH. The price or revision won't mean a thing if the games aren't there. You say yet, yet we have no indication at all that they even exist besides some hypothetical "Sony will never let this system die!!!" type of thinking.
With the bundles and Animal Crossing it should.
MeBecomingI
Member
Ugh, those Vita sales are just horrendous. I would hope that they cut the price before the holidays and start making some desirable bundles, but that is a tiny piece of the puzzle when you have no desirable software, but even a price cut seems too far gone for Sony. Nintendo actually cared about their handheld and took some drastic measures to help it grow and succeed while it was struggling while Sony doesn't do a damn thing. Certainly lends to the notion that Sony just doesn't care about the platform. As much as I hate to say it, the platform has flatlined at this point. No one is making games for it because the hardware isn't selling and the market is so small, but Sony isn't doing anything to fix it and are relying on current software that isn't doing a damn thing to sell the hardware... it is like a revolving door of failure. I love the platform, but I just don't see much life for it. I would tend to think these numbers are affecting at least some sales. I can't see someone wanting to drop a hefty price for the Vita when there isn't really a future that Sony has laid out for it. I hate being hard on the Vita, but what the fuck?
Maybe they are waiting for Soul Sacrifice to drop the price or something, but I just can't see that being the big savior...
Maybe they are waiting for Soul Sacrifice to drop the price or something, but I just can't see that being the big savior...
That will be really tough. LL is roughly 400k behind PSP + Vita. It's going to have to average about 70k MORE than both every week until Jan 1st.
It might depend on how many of the special edition Animal Crossing hardware bundles are made, because no matter what that will sell out, I think.