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Sony believes in Vita sales

Posted Feb 5, 2012 at 8:47AM EST by Harrison E

Listed in: Games Tags: ps vita sales estimates, Sony, vita sales, vita sales projections

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When the PS Vita was launched back on the 17th of December in 2011 people were hostile and negative even before the line's started to queue in Japan and China. It seems in the US that the negativity still continues but Sony still stays bright as ever for their launch later this month. According to sale aggregator Media Create, Sony only managed to sell 18,942 units last week, out of the total 535,423, it's sold already. This doesn't phase Sony for a second.

CFO Masaru Kato said that having sold 500, 000 by the 10th of January was "as a start, [he thinks Sony] had a very - a good start...including hardware and software, [Sony is] carrying out the sales promotions and we do it to boost the sales and we do not think we have any problems." Whenever I find one of these stories - I feel like this site gives me an injection of Sony fanboy-ism - and I think you know, Sony might have something up their sleeve and will be pulling out something huge. It could be the fact that international press for the item has been going over well. I know that I'll be playing the console on Wednesday and that it's gonna be a hell of an interesting thing to actually try it out.

Hardware marketing boss for Sony, John Koller has made similar comments in the past saying that he insists the Vita is selling to forecast and that Sony isn't worried about the drop in sales post-Christmas. I think Sony is thinking the Western sales both here on the 23rd and on the February 22nd in the US that Sony might bounce back, and who knows it could be an amazing year for the guys...or it could all blow up in their face and they may drop out of the handheld market...but hey, the PSP Go didn't stop them.

I always feel Sony doesn't have any arrogance about their consoles. It's just their ad campaigns and a few of their main characters that show off that problem. Sony itself seem like just the big entertainment/hardware company they've always been and that the problems they've experienced in this era have made them more humble, knowing the failings of not working with your audience or your customers properly and how that can bite you in the ass hard.

Via [IndustryGamers]

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See there's the difference, Nintendo didn't believe in 3DS sales and were quickly honest enough to say that and drop the price, where Sony's just doing the same thing they always do and insult people's intelligence by giving the same empty statements they give for everything, and with Sony they could be selling 100 of these things a week and still keep saying it's all on track for their predictions, i mean the fact they don't even have enough faith in it to start advertising it in the west with less than 3 weeks left shows they not expecting success and advertising won't help that much.

+1 # RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — asdrubol 2012-02-05 12:12

the 3ds wasant selling until they dropped the price considerably, i thin sony should match the price or make it less expensive... on launch day, perhaps doing like japan taking off 50$ out of it... or have a option to choose a bundle, i am very interested in buying one but the price is not selling it to me, i can afford it but im not sure i want to spend money for something not sure, like the 3ds or ps3 on launch day...

# need to make a gta game — totm 2012-02-05 12:41

for ps vita and sales will fly of the shelfves

# Sony should keep Believing! — rawr_b1 2012-02-05 13:32

Hopefully the PS Vita sales will pickup here in NA region. People should acknowledge more of PS Vita Capabilities and overall performance. This Device beats 3DS anyday of the week when it comes to graphics, screen size and even button placement.

+4 # RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — murundi 2012-02-05 13:35

i hope that after the worldwide release we don't see anymore articles like this one cos they are pointless

+1 # .... — ptspyder 2012-02-05 14:59

I respectfully disagree with the first few posters.

Sony - please listen! Its not the cost of your new console that is prohibitive, its the retarded pricing structure for its memory. Where the hell do you get off trying to charge $100 for 32gb of flash memory? Its the same crap everyone else makes, in a proprietary size format. Nothing about it makes it worth x2.5 the price of competing memory formats. Fix this, now!

# RE: .... — Aldo_P 2012-02-05 17:16

It's not just the price of memory cards that's the problem it's a combination of many things really, there's the price of console, memory and probably all the peripherals, the lack of promotion and the general growing expectation that Vita is either gonna have an incredibly slow start or it's just gonna be a huge failure, and while all this is happening Sony is just sitting back with their standard procedure of doing and saying absolutely nothing.

+2 # RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — RoyCruzader 2012-02-05 16:18

"Sony still believes in their handheld...everyone else, not so much."

Who is everyone else?

because im counting the days to grab my own PS VITA. im checking YOUTUBE almost daily to see the gameplay videos.

nintendo fanboys, PS3/xbox 360 owners who believe their respective consoles are better, go and play with them, instead of marginating PS vita.

Im a handheld fan, and to see these graphics on a portable device is my thing.

I don't care if i keep seeing articles saying "PS VITA SALES IN JAPAN ARE GETTING WORSE" i will but my PS VITA and enjoying it, the rest of the gaming world may
just f** up.

# RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — DJ PON-3 2012-02-05 21:55

32gig - 100$
Wifi/3G - $300. 4G would have been way better.
Games - $49.99-59.99
Lineup - Very small
Other games - Coming by the end of May.

I don't see this going well at all.

# RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — Azariel_z 2012-02-06 08:19

Will take a whole year for PS Vita to catch up..... no matter how the fanboys go scream about it ( Remember them bashing the NDS, "don't buy it don t buy it...etcetc..."). It takes time. specially with the small line of games..and very very high high cost mem cards..wrong move again.
And confuse package management... 8 Gb? No?..16 GB? Downloading games or buy physical copy? 3G with a plan, no plan...maybe wi-fi..oh s*t next bundle is cheaper.. Let s wait for a FF release...

Madness..

# RE: RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — Aldo_P 2012-02-06 10:29

Yeah but people were hammering the NDS because it was just so different from GBA and people are sacred of what they don't understand but obviously Nintendo knew better, where Vita is pretty much just a Psp with more power and considering how much people in the west have given up on it the last 3 years and the fact Sony all but gave up on it doesn't give you much confidence does it?

# RE: RE: RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — Azariel_z 2012-02-07 05:19

Quoting Aldo_P:

Yeah but people were hammering the NDS because it was just so different from GBA and people are sacred of what they don't understand but obviously Nintendo knew better, where Vita is pretty much just a Psp with more power and considering how much people in the west have given up on it the last 3 years and the fact Sony all but gave up on it doesn't give you much confidence does it?

What gets me mad is the BS of "is a new social trend.." whipiieee..lets make friends online!!!..

NDS was cool with multiplayer, people were making parties, etc etc..
while online on a handheld is just a different thing...

# need — cousin of tony 2012-02-08 01:52

a monster hunter game (regardless of the repetitive gameplay, still loads of fun!)

# RE: Sony believes in Vita sales — Tsabrak 2012-02-13 21:23

Unfortunately but soon high-end mobile phones will be faster then PSV. All you have to do is to add some physical buttons and thumb sticks. Rest is almost the same.

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