During the week of February 25th to March 3rd, the PlayStation Vita sold 62,543 units in Japan, (where they only sold 11,456 units the week before). Since the Vita’s price drop has caused the sales to increase nearly six times in Japan, one has to wonder if PlayStation will drop the price of the Vita outside of Japan – in order to see similar progress in other parts of the world. IGN has asked Sony about this, yet the PlayStation team has not yet replied.
After this recent boom in PS Vita sales, however, it seems more than likely that we will see similar price cuts across the globe. It is also notable that this increase of sales happened during the release of the hit Phantasy Star Online 2. The PlayStation Vita is still losing against the sales for the 3DS, as both versions of the 3DS combined a total of 77,439 sales during said week.
Source: IGN
I was five years old when I played my very first videogame: 'Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World' (on the Super Nintendo.) Although, that was back in 1996, during the beginning of the Nintendo 64 timeline. Thus began my trend of always being one console behind. I owned a Nintendo 64 during the days of Xbox and PlayStation 2; and I owned a Game Boy Color during the prime of the Game Boy Advance. It was only until recently that I have started keeping up to date with the current console timeline. I bought an Xbox 360 during it's launch, and it is my gaming platform to this very day. Now hoping to someday own a PlayStation Vita, and a non-craptastic PC, I am also hoping to keep up with the gaming industry from this point forward. That is, until I become too old to care to keep up with technology. Or until I'm too old to remember my name, or something like that. You know, looking on the bright side of things.
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