PS Vita Now Selling Less than PSP in Japan

[shakirmoledina]

so we can expect a price drop in around 3 months after release. it seems ppl feel they can get sony to lower the price by not buying it all bcz of nintendo. if this was politics, i would say nintendo had foreseen this and made the price high then low on purpose.

 

[Prof. 9]

Hey, at least this article is factual. There's some progress here!

On-topic, hasn't the PSP been outselling the Vita for a while now?

 

[gloweyjoey]

On-topic, hasn't the PSP been outselling the Vita for a while now?

aside from launch week, yes, yes it has. so, this is not new.

 

[Fyrus]

"Worldwide" ?

 

[gloweyjoey]

From Vitas second week http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/28/vita-sales-drop-below-3ds-psp-in-japan/, old news is old news,troll thread is troll thread

 

[Skelletonike]

On-topic, hasn't the PSP been outselling the Vita for a while now?

aside from launch week, yes, yes it has. so, this is not new.

In two/three months there was that much of a dif in the 3DS sales? o.O

 

[Deleted-236924]

Thread posted by Valwin?
I'm not surprised.

 

[Deleted User]

On-topic, hasn't the PSP been outselling the Vita for a while now?

aside from launch week, yes, yes it has. so, this is not new.

In two/three months there was that much of a dif in the 3DS sales? o.O

Holidays/PriceDrop/bundle deals.

 

[gloweyjoey]

Holidays/PriceDrop/bundle deals.

Yes 3DS sales skyrocketed during the holidays, but they are coming down just as much as Vita sales, percentage wise which are both down like 57 percent from last week.

 

[Foxi4]

Good to know, Valw'. I didn't expect anyone else to inform me about this.

 

[PolloDiablo]

oh my god! now I won't be able to sleep!.....

 

[Foxi4]

If there is one person that should recieve a permaban from the User Submitted News section then it's surely Valwin. Whenever you enter his threads, you're sure to get the "Sony sucks, Microsoft smells, they all copy Nintendo which we should all praise and sacrifice our first-borns to" message, and that's slightly annoying.

If this is not a possibility then at least enforce him somehow to put his "findings" into one comperhensive "I hate everything other then Nintendo" thread where he'll be able to saftely post whatever he wants without us risking the accidental click and read of his usually pointless analyses.

 

[heartgold]

If there is one person that should recieve a permaban from the User Submitted News section then it's surely Valwin. Whenever you enter his threads, you're sure to get the "Sony sucks, Microsoft smells, they all copy Nintendo which we should all praise and sacrifice our first-borns to" message, and that's slightly annoying.

If this is not a possibility then at least enforce him somehow to put his "findings" into one comperhensive "I hate everything other then Nintendo" thread where he'll be able to saftely post whatever he wants without us risking the accidental click and read of his usually pointless analyses.

This is legit news bro, not some made up shit. He shouldn't be banned for this. I'd have agreed with you if he's posting bullshit articles, but he isn't.

Whether it's bad or good news, news is news.

 

[gloweyjoey]

Personally, I don't think we should be that harsh to Valwin for this article because it is indeed a fact that the Vita is selling less than its predecessor.

Which reminds me, did people actually scold those who post about how badly the 3DS back then? /fanboy

While it is indeed a fact, the issue with the article is its saying that with these new weekly numbers put out by media crates is saying that the PSP is now outselling vita, but media crates has actually been reporting this since week 51 of 2011. Quite simply, It's a bad article. If it were a month ago or the title of the article said "PS Vita STILL selling less than PSP" it would be a good article. Yes, the article is fact but it is also delusive.

So, PSP out selling Vita is not a new fact being reported.

The new weekly numbers released by media crates shows an all around post holliday sales drop of all hardware.
(I am not a sony fanboy, but this article/thread is definenitely slanted)

 

[Foxi4]

If there is one person that should recieve a permaban from the User Submitted News section then it's surely Valwin. Whenever you enter his threads, you're sure to get the "Sony sucks, Microsoft smells, they all copy Nintendo which we should all praise and sacrifice our first-borns to" message, and that's slightly annoying.

If this is not a possibility then at least enforce him somehow to put his "findings" into one comperhensive "I hate everything other then Nintendo" thread where he'll be able to saftely post whatever he wants without us risking the accidental click and read of his usually pointless analyses.

This is legit news bro, not some made up shit. He shouldn't be banned for this. I'd have agreed with you if he's posting bullshit articles, but he isn't.

Whether it's bad or good news, news is news.

It's not news when everyone's aware of it - the definition of news is a sudden change in the state of matters or something explicitly important that people should know of. The PSP has an established library of titles that are loved by all and it's no suprise that it still sells and will be selling.

Believing that the VITA will sell great all of a sudden is like believing that cars fueled by tears of dragons will sell like hot cakes when there are no dragon-tear-pump stations around.

Let us all wait until proper titles for the VITA are released and see what happens - THAT will be news. This is NOT news. This is stating the obvious. On and on again.

 

[heartgold]

If there is one person that should recieve a permaban from the User Submitted News section then it's surely Valwin. Whenever you enter his threads, you're sure to get the "Sony sucks, Microsoft smells, they all copy Nintendo which we should all praise and sacrifice our first-borns to" message, and that's slightly annoying.

If this is not a possibility then at least enforce him somehow to put his "findings" into one comperhensive "I hate everything other then Nintendo" thread where he'll be able to saftely post whatever he wants without us risking the accidental click and read of his usually pointless analyses.

This is legit news bro, not some made up shit. He shouldn't be banned for this. I'd have agreed with you if he's posting bullshit articles, but he isn't.

Whether it's bad or good news, news is news.

It's not news when everynone's aware of it - the definition of news is a sudden change in the state of matters or something explicitly important that people should know of. The PSP has an established library of titles that are loved by all and it's no suprise that it still sells and will be selling.

Believing that the VITA will sell great all of a sudden is like believing that cars fueled by tears of dragons will sell like hot cakes when there are no dragon-tear-pump stations around.

Let us all wait until proper titles for the VITA are released and see what happens - THAT will be news. This is NOT news. This is stating the obvious. On and on again.

It is still news bro, whether the results are the same or changed, it's an update on Vita's forth week. It's very first month on the market now.

Now directly related to you the following

Why should Vita get treated any different to the 3DS?

Remember how many negative threads we have for the 3DS, week in and week out. Claiming the system is doomed over and over again. Why didn't people say lets wait for the major Nintendo games to be release and see how it plays out for the first year?

 

[Foxi4]

If there is one person that should recieve a permaban from the User Submitted News section then it's surely Valwin. Whenever you enter his threads, you're sure to get the "Sony sucks, Microsoft smells, they all copy Nintendo which we should all praise and sacrifice our first-borns to" message, and that's slightly annoying.

If this is not a possibility then at least enforce him somehow to put his "findings" into one comperhensive "I hate everything other then Nintendo" thread where he'll be able to saftely post whatever he wants without us risking the accidental click and read of his usually pointless analyses.

This is legit news bro, not some made up shit. He shouldn't be banned for this. I'd have agreed with you if he's posting bullshit articles, but he isn't.

Whether it's bad or good news, news is news.

It's not news when everynone's aware of it - the definition of news is a sudden change in the state of matters or something explicitly important that people should know of. The PSP has an established library of titles that are loved by all and it's no suprise that it still sells and will be selling.

Believing that the VITA will sell great all of a sudden is like believing that cars fueled by tears of dragons will sell like hot cakes when there are no dragon-tear-pump stations around.

Let us all wait until proper titles for the VITA are released and see what happens - THAT will be news. This is NOT news. This is stating the obvious. On and on again.

It is still news bro, whether the results are the same or changed, it's an update on Vita's forth week. It's very first month on the market now.

Now directly related to you the following

Why should Vita get treated any different to the 3DS?

Remember how many negative threads we have for the 3DS, week in and week out. Claiming the system is doomed over and over again. Why didn't people say lets wait for the major Nintendo games to be release and see how it plays out for the first year?

Yeah. And those threads weren't any better then this one.

If someone does something utterly dumb and people let it slide, it doesn't necessarily mean that others may walk the same path and post "updates" that aren't "updates" at all.

Again, an "update" implies a worsening or betterment of a given situation - here we have a beautiful standstill. A standstill everyone's aware of, and a thread that takes valuable space on GBATemp servers for no apparent reason.

This is a thread that adds nothing at all to the overall scheme of things, doesn't inform us of any new happenings in the VITA case and doesn't have any meaningful message other than Nihil Novi (look it up).

This isn't news. Sorry mate. It just isn't. *jettisons from the thread, is bored*

 

[heartgold]

If there is one person that should recieve a permaban from the User Submitted News section then it's surely Valwin. Whenever you enter his threads, you're sure to get the "Sony sucks, Microsoft smells, they all copy Nintendo which we should all praise and sacrifice our first-borns to" message, and that's slightly annoying.

If this is not a possibility then at least enforce him somehow to put his "findings" into one comperhensive "I hate everything other then Nintendo" thread where he'll be able to saftely post whatever he wants without us risking the accidental click and read of his usually pointless analyses.

This is legit news bro, not some made up shit. He shouldn't be banned for this. I'd have agreed with you if he's posting bullshit articles, but he isn't.

Whether it's bad or good news, news is news.

It's not news when everynone's aware of it - the definition of news is a sudden change in the state of matters or something explicitly important that people should know of. The PSP has an established library of titles that are loved by all and it's no suprise that it still sells and will be selling.

Believing that the VITA will sell great all of a sudden is like believing that cars fueled by tears of dragons will sell like hot cakes when there are no dragon-tear-pump stations around.

Let us all wait until proper titles for the VITA are released and see what happens - THAT will be news. This is NOT news. This is stating the obvious. On and on again.

It is still news bro, whether the results are the same or changed, it's an update on Vita's forth week. It's very first month on the market now.

Now directly related to you the following

Why should Vita get treated any different to the 3DS?

Remember how many negative threads we have for the 3DS, week in and week out. Claiming the system is doomed over and over again. Why didn't people say lets wait for the major Nintendo games to be release and see how it plays out for the first year?

Yeah. And those threads weren't any better then this one.

If someone does something utterly dumb and people let it slide, it doesn't necessarily mean that others may walk the same path and post "updates" that aren't "updates" at all.

Again, an "update" implies a worsening or betterment of a given situation - here we have a beautiful standstill. A standstill everyone's aware of, and a thread that takes valuable space on GBATemp servers for no apparent reason.

This is a thread that adds nothing at all to the overall scheme of things, doesn't inform us of any new happenings in the VITA case and doesn't have any meaningful message other than Nihil Novi (look it up).

This isn't news. Sorry mate. It just isn't. *jettisons from the thread, is bored*

True enough regarding the thread issues.

heh, this update does imply Vita's worsening.

- Continues to get outsold by PSP
-overall sales lower than in comparison to PSP's first launch month (new news)
- drops from a solid 42k to 18k (new news)

That drop is the major news to report, if anything.

 

[Foxi4]

If the fact that sales dropped since launch is news to you then clearly you're not following the news. If getting outsold by the PSP is news to you then again, you're not following the news. *yawn* This is thoroughly pointless, we're just adding more and more to the calduron of nothingness here.

 

[heartgold]

If the fact that sales dropped since launch is news to you then clearly you're not following the news. If getting outsold by the PSP is news to you then again, you're not following the news. *yawn* This is thoroughly pointless, we're just adding more and more to the calduron of nothingness here.

It's not something I'd have posted coz it's just so minor.

I'm just stating it's technically an update of news, but it's nothing worth mentioning or us knowing about, that I agree to.

Pointless posts indeed.