PS Vita sales plummet to new weekly low in Japan

[Hidden_Darkness]

I can't say i'm surprised that the sales for the vita have dropped, at the moment theres not much of a game selection to warrant paying $250-$300 for it. don't most handhelds start out kinda slow in sales before gaining momentum though? the sales will probably pick up within the next couple years when there is a larger game selection for the vita. so far the selection for vita and 3ds is rather sparse.

[Guntz]

I can't say i'm surprised that the sales for the vita have dropped, at the moment theres not much of a game selection to warrant paying $250-$300 for it. don't most handhelds start out kinda slow in sales before gaining momentum though? the sales will probably pick up within the next couple years when there is a larger game selection for the vita. so far the selection for vita and 3ds is rather sparse.

Chilly may not be here to repeat this, so I will instead...

Well, here's a positively STUPID article. March/April is ALWAYS bad for sales of ANYTHING electronic. Always has been, always will be. Think about it a moment - what is going on in March and April? March is Spring Break - where everyone goes on vacation to someplace warm and gets drunk. NO ONE is buying anything as all their money is going to travel, hotel, and buying liquor. What about April? That's Easter... which is NOT a holiday for giving presents, just chocolate eggs.

I've been in the computer business for 30 years and March has ALWAYS been dead for everything. Notice that the only console that didn't drop was the one that released a HUGELY anticipated game, and that BARELY kept it from dropping.

[Hidden_Darkness]

yeah I read what chilly posted, what I meant was that every handheld goes through a period of time when sales drop.

[Knuckle Duster]

Sony is Vita's worst enemy right now. It needs affordable memory cards and it needs to match the PSP in what it can do. Right now, I can't get a Vita and play all of the digital PSP games or access any of the PSOne classics as I would expect to. It should come down to $199.


It's still better than the 3DS on it's hardware, digital content, and not far behind on native software... Nintendo is lazy and Sony is stupid.

[JCU]

Sony should have used the 3DS debacle as a learning tool but apparently it went over the heads of the decision makers at Sony.

You can not expect to release a high priced system, without a supporting library, and expect it to sell well. The Vita has the deck stacked against it since the 3DS is continuing to gain steam.

What's available that's worth the price? Uncharted: Golden Abyss? What else? Even the usually fun Lego Harry Potter was watered down beyond simplicity.