deKay

Or good news, if you want a cheaper one I suppose.

(From
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/0...ts_price_cuts/)

Sony's PlayStation Vita experienced a rapid decline in sales during its
second week on Japanese shelves, prompting suggestions the company may
have to reduce the console's price.

Several retailers are unofficially doing so already.

According to sales rankings provided by local market watcher Media Create,
during the week leading up to Christmas Day, Sony sold just 72,479 Vitas,
a historical low for any console's second week on shelves.

The company shifted more than 320,000 units following launch the previous
week.

Compare that to sales for Nintendo's 3DS and the results could be seen as
worrying for Sony. The 3DS shifted 370,000 units in its first week on sale
and a further 210,000 in the second week. Even that was sufficiently
worrying for Ninty to cut retail prices in a bid to boost sales. At the
time, the 3DS was priced roughly the same as the Wi-Fi model of PS Vita -
the equivalent of £219.

Since the price-reduction, the 3DS has outsold all other consoles. In the
US, Nintendo shifted almost half a million devices in the week leading up
to Christmas, bringing the total number of units sold past the 4m mark.

This was boosted by a strong lineup of recent game releases such as Super
Mario Land 3D, Mario Kart 7 and Monster Hunter 3D, but while the Vita
promises a healthier-looking lineup of titles for launch, will the price
of the hardware be too much for the regular punter?

Retailers certainly think so, and several have already brought down the
the Vita's price by as much as 20 per cent, GamesRadar reports.

With more people turning to mobile phone games, and hardware such as
Amazon's Kindle Fire hitting shelves at inexpensive prices, Sony could
well find itself on the backfoot when the Vita is launched over here on 22
February.


deKay
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James Luff

On 04/01/2012 11:13, deKay wrote:
> Or good news, if you want a cheaper one I suppose.
>

I doubt we'll be seeing Skidz on this thread, well I won't see him at
all unless one of you replies to it... but you get the point. Vita is
bombing, we all knew it was just Skidz time of the month, I'm sure he's
calmed down now and won't be back for a couple of weeks.

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In article <9mitr0Fp75U1@mid.individual.net>,
James Luff <lufferov+usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 04/01/2012 11:13, deKay wrote:
>> Or good news, if you want a cheaper one I suppose.
>
>I doubt we'll be seeing Skidz on this thread, well I won't see him at
>all unless one of you replies to it... but you get the point. Vita is
>bombing, we all knew it was just Skidz time of the month, I'm sure he's
>calmed down now and won't be back for a couple of weeks.

Three weeks, if my study of biology serves me correctly. Unless it's post-
rather than pre-, in which case a full four.

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for ease of reference." |
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deKay

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, James Luff wrote:

> On 04/01/2012 11:13, deKay wrote:
>> Or good news, if you want a cheaper one I suppose.
>>
>
> I doubt we'll be seeing Skidz on this thread, well I won't see him at all
> unless one of you replies to it... but you get the point. Vita is bombing, we
> all knew it was just Skidz time of the month, I'm sure he's calmed down now
> and won't be back for a couple of weeks.

It's your fault. Your lies about the Vita have somehow spread to the media
and now they're making up fake stories about its sales figures and current
lack of success.

I hope you're happy.

deKay
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HarpingOn

On 04/01/2012 12:28, deKay wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, James Luff wrote:
>
>> On 04/01/2012 11:13, deKay wrote:
>>> Or good news, if you want a cheaper one I suppose.
>>>
>>
>> I doubt we'll be seeing Skidz on this thread, well I won't see him at
>> all unless one of you replies to it... but you get the point. Vita is
>> bombing, we all knew it was just Skidz time of the month, I'm sure
>> he's calmed down now and won't be back for a couple of weeks.
>
> It's your fault. Your lies about the Vita have somehow spread to the
> media and now they're making up fake stories about its sales figures and
> current lack of success.
>
> I hope you're happy.
>

EG had a very positive (sponsored by Sony) piece on the Vita today.

jochta

On 04/01/2012 13:10, HarpingOn wrote:
> On 04/01/2012 12:28, deKay wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, James Luff wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/01/2012 11:13, deKay wrote:
>>>> Or good news, if you want a cheaper one I suppose.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I doubt we'll be seeing Skidz on this thread, well I won't see him at
>>> all unless one of you replies to it... but you get the point. Vita is
>>> bombing, we all knew it was just Skidz time of the month, I'm sure
>>> he's calmed down now and won't be back for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> It's your fault. Your lies about the Vita have somehow spread to the
>> media and now they're making up fake stories about its sales figures and
>> current lack of success.
>>
>> I hope you're happy.
>>
>
> EG had a very positive (sponsored by Sony) piece on the Vita today.
>

But that would mean visiting the abomination that is the new EG site.

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deKay

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, HarpingOn wrote:

> On 04/01/2012 12:28, deKay wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, James Luff wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/01/2012 11:13, deKay wrote:
>>>> Or good news, if you want a cheaper one I suppose.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I doubt we'll be seeing Skidz on this thread, well I won't see him at
>>> all unless one of you replies to it... but you get the point. Vita is
>>> bombing, we all knew it was just Skidz time of the month, I'm sure
>>> he's calmed down now and won't be back for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> It's your fault. Your lies about the Vita have somehow spread to the
>> media and now they're making up fake stories about its sales figures and
>> current lack of success.
>>
>> I hope you're happy.
>>
>
> EG had a very positive (sponsored by Sony) piece on the Vita today.

Unsurprising.

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gospvg

deKay <dekay01@gmail.com> wrote:
> So Japan's 4th week Vita sales are in, and they've dropped again - just
> 43,000 that week, behind the Wii, PS3, PSP and 3DS (with 241,000 last week).
>
> No Vita games to be seen in the charts either.
>
> Possibly related to this, Sony have halved their planned number of launch
> units in the West.

Did I read an article about vita game pricing to be adjusted?

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deKay

gospvg <address_is@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> deKay <dekay01@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So Japan's 4th week Vita sales are in, and they've dropped again - just
>> 43,000 that week, behind the Wii, PS3, PSP and 3DS (with 241,000 last week).
>>
>> No Vita games to be seen in the charts either.
>>
>> Possibly related to this, Sony have halved their planned number of launch
>> units in the West.
>
> Did I read an article about vita game pricing to be adjusted?

retailers in Japan dropped the price by the equivalent of about £20 after
the first two weeks. It didn't help sales, which just got worse.

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deKay

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, gospvg wrote:

> deKay <dekay01@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So Japan's 4th week Vita sales are in, and they've dropped again - just
>> 43,000 that week, behind the Wii, PS3, PSP and 3DS (with 241,000 last week).
>>
>> No Vita games to be seen in the charts either.
>>
>> Possibly related to this, Sony have halved their planned number of launch
>> units in the West.
>
> Did I read an article about vita game pricing to be adjusted?

Of course I now realise you're talking about the games, not the consoles.

I don't know about that, but they have reduced the price of the memory
cards.

deKay
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