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Analyst predicts good future for Vita in Japan |
Listed in: News Tags: Japan, news, Sony
SMBC Nikko Securities analyst Kazuharu Miura appears confident that the upcoming PS Vita gaming platform will prove successful in Japan.
According to a report from Bloomberg Japan, the analyst reckons that the handheld will have moved around 2.5 million units in the country by the end of March 2012.
Miura believes, however, that the PS Vita's sales numbers may depend largely on whether or not Sony manages to release enough interesting titles for the handheld. He estimates total software sales to reach 7 million units during the same period.
Ace Securities analyst Hideki Yasuda, on the other hand, expressed concern over the longer development cycles he thinks will stem from the PS Vita's more powerful specs.
The PS Vita is set for launch in Japan later this year. Final details on the launch are expected to be revealed by Sony during the Tokyo Game Show in September. The handheld's North American and European launches have been penciled in for early next year.
Via [Andriasang]
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They still buy the creaky old Psp by the shit load where Europe & US have given up on it, and Vita is just Psp with extras so no reason they won't just stop buying Psp and start buying Vita instead if the price is right, so if an analyst will stake their reputation on whether everyone else is gonna buy it then I'll listen, but my prediction is it'll have exactly the same fate as Psp outside Japan, and that's a few years worth of curiosity value with developers making an effort, then a slow death with Sony not really trying that hard to improve it with the increasing competition from Smartphones.
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