How's the Vita launch compared to 3DS / usual german hardware launches?
I don't think we got numbers, usually this happens only when they are pretty good and there is a press release. According to gamesindustry.biz Nintendo shipped less than 100k for the launch and AFAIR they didn't sell out. So probably the same or even less, I guess.
But germany isn't known for early adopters, usually all hardware launches have pretty low numbers. 80k seems pretty good for the vita.
noobie said:
Any promotional stuff or price reduction by Microsoft on XBOX 360 for such a large increase
I don't really know. There were some promotional sales in Jjnuary (360 250GB for 149.- ) but that was just a short promotional sale. Although this might indicate that the 360 was overshipped here. Others may have had similar good deals in the following months.
Especially the fact that the Xbox guy explicitly states that the recent growth is not because of price reductions indicates that this was the case, otherwise he wouldn't have had to mention it.
But I don't really know.