The PS Vita sales thread - 5m sold in Japan

I'm awesome at Killzone, one of the worlds elite players :shifty:

Some more sales info from around Europe, despite the UK hardware figure we had by far the best software sales.

Germany

4 Vita titles in top 100 with strangly no Uncharted Vita.

Sweden

01 (01) [PC] World Of Warcraft Game Card (60-day Pre Paid Gamecard) (Activision Blizzard)
02 (11) [PS3] Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
03 (05) [PC] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
04 (06) [PS3] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
05 (08) [360] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
06 (RE) [PS2] Singstar (incl Mics) (Sony Computer Ent.)
07 (NE) [PSV] Uncharted Golden Abyss (Scee)
08 (RE) [360] Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
09 (RE) [PC] Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 ((Activision Blizzard)
10 (12) [PS3] Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
11 (NE) [PSV] Rayman Origins (Ubisoft)
12 (RE) [WII] Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Starter Pack (Activision Blizzard)
13 (09) [PSN] Playstation Network Voucher 200 Sek (Sony Computer Ent.)
14 (RE) [360] Dance Central (kinect) (Microsoft)
15 (15) [PS3] Uncharted 3 Drake´s Deception (Scee)
16 (02) [PS3] Ufc Undisputed 3 Limited Edition (Namco Bandai Games)
17 (14) [PS3] Nhl 12 (Electronic Arts)
18 (10) [XBL] Live 3 Month Card (Microsoft)
19 (07) [3DS] Super Mario 3d Land (Nintendo)
20 (RE) [360] Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)

Finland

01 (01) [PC] Angry Birds Seasons (Others)
02 (07) [PSN] Playstation Network Card 20 Eur (Sony Computer Ent.)
03 (06) [PS3] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
04 (05) [PC] World Of Warcraft Pre-paid Game Card 60 Days (Activision Blizzard)
05 (10) [PS3] Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
06 (08) [PS3] Nhl 12 (Electronic Arts)
07 (RE) [PS3] Rage Anarchy Edition (Bethesda Softworks)
08 (16) [PS3] Uncharted 3 Drake´s Deception (Scee)
09 (NE) [PSV] Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Scee)
10 (03) [PS3] Ufc Undisputed 3 : Limited Edition (amco Bandai Games)
11 (11) [PC] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts)
12 (18) [PS3] Fifa 12 (Electronic Arts)
13 (RE) [360] Rage Anarchy Edition (Bethesda Softworks)
14 (NE) [360] Syndicate (Electronic Arts)
15 (RE) [PC] Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Activision Blizzard)
16 (RE) [XBL] Xbox 360 Live 3 Months Gold (Microsoft)
17 (14) [PC] Angry Birds Classic (Others)
18 (NE) [PS3] Syndicate (Electronic Arts)
19 (RE) [WII] Mario & Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games (Sega)
20 (RE) [PS3] Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Platinum (Activision Blizzard)

Romania

Playstation Vita registered a total sales of 150 units on launch day, including pre-orders.

Flanco estimates sales of more than 4,000 PlayStation Vita until the end of this year, registering after the launch day a total sales of 150 units, including pre-orders. The retailer had a pre-orders campaign a few days before the big releases of February 22, 2012, receiving over 100 requests from customers. According to Flanco representatives PlayStation Vita model with 3G and WiFi connectivity generated over 60 percent of sales of the new game console. PlayStation Vita 3G/WiFi is available at a price of RON 1,449, while the PlayStation Vita WiFi can be purchased at the price of RON 1129 in the Flanco network. PlayStation (PS3, PS2, PS and PSP VITA) is over 60 percent of console sales in stores Flanco, according to retailer. Meanwhile, PlayStation games and accessories account for 65 percent of sales in these product categories in Flanco network.

Something Fishy

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... ch-analyst

So the two day report the other day was too low at 45k. 61k in first four days.

Instead of all these "reliable sources" how about Sony just give us the official number. Because so far we've had 125,000, 45,000 & now 61,000.

Something Fishy

125k? where did that come from? the last couple seem closer to each other so that seems an outlier?

Well Jim Ryan wa sa bit over-confident saying this

"We're planning for a condition of success," PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan said. "Launch quantities will sell out - I think that's looking pretty certain."

that is for sure. Seems strange to expect that when it launches during a slump. psp came out during the debt fuelled happy days.

It surely will pick up once cheaper with sensibly priced mem cards and games and as the economy improves.

VGchartz put the estimate at 125,000.

Something Fishy

oh

expect them to revise it down then. They always pull a figure out of their ass and then change it when the facts come out.

Strange how console launches don't seem to tie in with anything. You'd think manufacturers would launch in the UK close to Christmas, say November. But for some reason end of Feb seemed better.....

Something Fishy

indeed, or why not Easter? might pick up extra sales then.

Something Fishy wrote:indeed, or why not Easter? might pick up extra sales then.

Have you thought this through?

"Dad, instead of an easter egg this year....."

I'm assuming they had to get it out this financial year and ahead of the iPad 3 launch.

Plus it is bonus time between December-April, so some people have a chunk of cash to burn on something silly.

Death's Head wrote:Strange how console launches don't seem to tie in with anything. You'd think manufacturers would launch in the UK close to Christmas, say November. But for some reason end of Feb seemed better.....

The point is to get it on the shelf where it can be sold over Christmas. It's not a software release, hardware has a loooong shelf life. Getting the hardware out (oo-er) gives the early adopters time to get theirs which should drive sales during holiday periods.

PostRe: PlayStation Vita sales thread: 1.8m shipped by 31/3/12

1.8 million. That's how many PlayStation Vitas were sold as of March 31, as per Sony.

The information was revealed in a Sony earnings call following the company's annual earnings report today.

CEO Kaz Hirai on the system's sales:
"About Vita," Mr. Hirai said, "the last year, [we sold] 1.8 million units for US, Japan, Asia and Europe. And as a starting phase, I think that was a good start."

Mr. Hirai offered the following assessment on the importance of software for the Vita, moving forward.

"A game platform, like Vita – the software is the key to success, how good the software is," he said. "We have to reinforce the software area in order to improve the business, that is the basic line.

"And vis a vis Vita, at this moment, there is no decline or lack of motivation as a portable platform. And also, in order to connect with the Network, this is a very important product indeed for us, and therefore we still have a very high motivation to develop this further. There is no change. And services and software must be strengthened.

"In other words, the collaborative approach is very important, so is third-party. And from first party studios, the titles will be presented one after the other, so please look at them and give your evaluation based on them."

Sony expects to sell a total of 16 million PSP's and Vita's in its next fiscal year.

http://www.gametrailers.com/side-missio ... ings-call/

Pretty woeful but to be expected considering its opening 4 months in Japan and 2 in US/Europe. That 16m figure is optimistic to say the least.

PostRe: PlayStation Vita sales thread: 1.8m shipped by 31/3/12

The price needs to come down, we all know that the price isn't that high when you consider what the machine is. But to hit that mass market it needs to be £180 max.

PostRe: PlayStation Vita sales thread: 1.8m shipped by 31/3/12

It's widely available for £180 right now, though.

PostRe: PlayStation Vita sales thread: 1.8m shipped by 31/3/12

jiggles wrote:It's widely available for £180 right now, though.

Is it? I did not know that :lol:

PostRe: PlayStation Vita sales thread: 1.8m shipped by 31/3/12

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlayStatio ... 489&sr=8-1

Even comes with a 4GB card.

PostRe: PlayStation Vita sales thread: 1.8m shipped by 31/3/12

It needs to match the 3DS for price on console and software. I know it's a much higher spec'd machine but the price is comparatively high and the software prices prohibitive. Over £40 for handheld software is madness.

PostRe: PlayStation Vita sales thread: 1.8m shipped by 31/3/12

Yeah but nobody ever pays that :lol:

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