Nice. Great number from Brazil then. Didn't expect WiiU do well at Brazil.
a. Thanks.
b. Well, I do read some(this probably the right word) expected the PS4 to help Vita.
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NPD Sales Results for December 2013 [Up2: Xbox One/360 HW, 3DS top system of year]
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Nice. Great number from Brazil then. Didn't expect WiiU do well at Brazil.
a. Thanks.
b. Well, I do read some(this probably the right word) expected the PS4 to help Vita.
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PhoenixDawn
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Guess this should be the year we start to see $99 Vita firesales in the US then? I'll definitely snag one if it dips to that price with a memory card.
The Vita only get like four games worth of shelf space at the stores I go to.
That fact that the Vita has so many people buying full game digitally and the whole PS+ thing which I think was a horrible idea on Sony's part just pisses retail off and helped make the Vita lose its shelf space even faster. Itys kinda hard to sell games to fans when you have like two games on shelves and they aren't new and possibly ports.
Nintendo won't even release greatest hits games for the Wii, or drop prices for their ancient games. Treat a fan base like that, then wonder why they don't rush out to buy your new system.
It was a sarcastic joke.
NPD threads on GAF always are about US sales unless it says otherwise.
Hitokiri03
Member
It was definitely a big mistake release GT6 on PS3.
Those are pretty poor sales.
Those are pretty poor sales.
soundscream
Member
KI is going to be hard to classify. What's a sale someone buying the $20/40 pass? If someone just buys 1 or 2 characters? I think it's success or failure will be based on the amount of money it generates into the ecosystem.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Just tell me.
Did the cheaper 2DS have any appreciable effect on 3DS sales? Nintendo did their song and dance, but I want to know. Down or up YoY creamy?
Did the cheaper 2DS have any appreciable effect on 3DS sales? Nintendo did their song and dance, but I want to know. Down or up YoY creamy?
Man that makes me really sad about the Vita. I love that thing so much. It just flows well with the interface. -sigh- C'mon Sony. You gotta do something with it. Get some damn exclusives. Anything.
SCEA is like the honey badger when it comes to the Vita. They just don't give a shit.
It's not only him. I have other names too, of people very interested on sales of Vita (who don't own or want to own one).
Randolph Freelander
Member
If 3DS is near the 1 million everyone says it is, it's down.
Wii u numbers ?
Err, yes they did?
megabytecr
Member
Now that you bring that up, I think they abandoned the Wii earlier than they should.
theprodigy
Member
digoutyoursoul
Member
It needs help from third parties, for example a Minecraft bundle could possibly benefit along with a price reduction on the hardware.
I don't think remote play is a huge selling point personally , I feel more people would just rather use the traditional way of playing a console - the tv- the vast majority of the time.
They did with Wii Mini, but Nintendo is hand tied with Wii U/3DS development, keep developing games for Wii only would to cause make their Wii U game output worse.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I was positive it was Japan LTD.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
It's such a shame Vita is doing as abysmally as it is, it deserves so much more. Totally sucks that it will probably be Sony's last dedicated handheld based on its sales
Chezzymann
Member
Yeah, all the gaming stores I go to only have like 3-5 vita games in the entire store. My target only had 2, and they were just kinda shoved in the corner of the PS3 section.
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
That kind of logic isn't bullet proof. For instance, I could say PS+ gives out a lot of free games, so what's the point of purchasing software for PS4 when there are a multitude of free games to keep people distracted: Resogun, Blacklight, Warframe, Contrast and Don't Starve.
What, 8 of them? Not every statement is literal.
It's time Sony.....
What they would gain with this move? A mob of angry owners who wouldn't buy anything from them anymore?
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Nintendo Selects?
eddfromtheriver
Banned
Yes, i hate their attitude... why not lower the price of your old games?, they do it for only a very VERY select few titles.
metalslimer
Member
I meant if they had never developed the Wii U and just kept at it with the Wii. Obviously this was not going to happen, but the Wii has more potential than the Wii U will ever have. And they dropped the Wii after 2010 leaving behind a shit ton of money to focus on a failure.
megabytecr
Member
Poor Dave, there is no light in these numbers! I really thought that PS4 being so popular that Vita would receive a boost, but no, it actually got worst.
Can we say that people spent too much and that probably in 2014.... nah never mind
Can we say that people spent too much and that probably in 2014.... nah never mind
They did. It was the Nintendo Selects series. I recall Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, Punch-Out and a standalone Wii Sports as part of it, as well as a few others.
I feel bad that I kinda agree, as long as I get another 1-2 years of the Japanese titles coming over I'm happy. I know a lot of people won't agree and for good reason but I just can't get upset over the numbers. They are horrid numbers though.
Americans have no taste, poor Vita
it's dead everywhere besides Japan, where it's just a bit less dead
Wow, looks like I got at least one prediction right. I said Vita 90k, and it'll be pretty close. I just don't understand why anyone thought the PS4 would make people interested in it. I don't 'get' even the very first part of that argument. I've tried remote play. Mainstream gamers were NEVER going to give a fuck about that.
I remember when I picked mine up on a trip to New York last Christmas. I knew buying it then that it was already dead, and had to accept that before purchasing it. So it's kinda funny to see that there's still some surprise at the figures a whole year and a month on.
I remember when I picked mine up on a trip to New York last Christmas. I knew buying it then that it was already dead, and had to accept that before purchasing it. So it's kinda funny to see that there's still some surprise at the figures a whole year and a month on.
Poetic.Injustice
Member
I don't get all the people complaining about Vita sales, Do you have a product that sells 95k a month?
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Any American support is all but dead now. They won't continue to support the system here.
Japan will still have a degree of support, but you're looking mainly at really niche titles. Sorry for American Vita owners. You might still get token support if you buy a PS4 though.
I'm pretty sure this is a joke because this sounds familiar.
hahah, now everyone is joking