It remains to be seen how many of those sales are from the non-asian regions.

 

mind the psp has only been on sale for 6 days in Europe, don't know if that makes a difference or not.

 

I haven't seen one on the streets yet and, on release, the PSP popped up quick in my area. Gloomy forcast.

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It remains to be seen how many of those sales are from the non-asian regions.

They low.

 

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I haven't seen one on the streets yet and, on release, the PSP popped up quick in my area. Gloomy forcast.

They low.

I seen someone with it the other day when i was NYC Subway

He had a PS VITA, couldn't tell if it 3G or Wifi only, he had a flip case on, with no screen protector on i believe, and was playing some kind of ball puzzle game lol

Mine had Screen protector, silicon soft case and an Official Pouch case, all i need now is a protector for the back, and is isn't much on ebay ; ; XD

 

Heck, I haven't even seen a 3DS out in the wild yet (other than my own). I think it'll at least be a bit longer before you see anyone with a Vita.

Though, I have noticed a TON of people with smartphones and other touchscreen devices. Maybe that's the difference - where I am doesn't involve long waiting periods, so maybe just a smart phone is enough to hold someone over until they're done waiting for whatever.

 

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I haven't seen one on the streets yet and, on release, the PSP popped up quick in my area. Gloomy forcast.

They low.

My friend managed to snag the last Uncharted and Vita (3G) at my local Best Buy Saturday, but he is the only person I know or have seen with one.

 

the ps vita is too expensive to buy, otherwise i would buy it

 

i remember reading somewhere that a preliminary guess to the cost of each vita was about $160 usd, looking at the cost of most the chips inside the unit. Where the screen was the most expensive part at around $50-60 i think it was, everything else was less then $10-20

 

Hm. Not too high, but not bad anyway. Expected more to be honest, the ad campaigns were all over the country

 

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It remains to be seen how many of those sales are from the non-asian regions.

578K from Japan since December

620K in non Asia since last week

http://www.slashgear.com/sony-ps-vita-sales-surpass-1-2-million-units-worldwide-28216038/

 

personally i cant wait to get mine. FIFA and Uncharted on the go? cheers

plus the future games line-up looks pretty promising. i even saw Mortal Kombat in there. if it resembles MK9 on PS3...my god.

 

i want this for modnation racers....probably one of the best games i have ever played for PS3, now portable.....im pretty sure im gonna pick one up in a couple months.

 

never tried modnation. worth getting? whats it like, seems like mario kart with massive ciustomisation tools.

 

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never tried modnation. worth getting? whats it like, seems like mario kart with massive ciustomisation tools.

I can't speak for the vita one, but the one on ps3 was surprisingly fun (I say surprisingly as I don't particularly care for racing games). My main gripe with it was it had horrid load times, I eventually sold it, not long after purchase for that reason alone...though apparently it had a patch to shorten the times, not sure how that worked out.

 

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578K from Japan since December
620K in non Asia since last week
http://www.slashgear.com/sony-ps-vita-sales-surpass-1-2-million-units-worldwide-28216038/

620K isn''t that bad tbh. Isn''t that way better than the Japanese sales in the first period?

I''d like one, just waiting for the big games to arrive.

 

I'd buy Vita ASAP if there were proper games for it. By proper i mean Metal Gear Solid, God of War, Uncharted, Skyrim, Dead Space, Mass Effect 3. All we have crappy cart racing games or puzzle shiz.

If Bethesda decides to port Skyrim Game of the year edition to Vita, then that alone would be the reason of my Vita purchase.

 

lol dont think the vita can handle skyrim.
i only saw 3 people currently with a ps vita Me, my friend and some guy who works in ebgames who showed it to us.

 

got mine today

its an awesome little rig. got uncharted, modnation and fifa. have tried fifa and uncharted, impressed with both. havnt tried modnation yet. the games coming out for it look awesome though. MGS HD collection, resistance, mortal kombat... so many. cant wait to see what the future holds for this little guy

 

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i remember reading somewhere that a preliminary guess to the cost of each vita was about $160 usd, looking at the cost of most the chips inside the unit. Where the screen was the most expensive part at around $50-60 i think it was, everything else was less then $10-20

Even if this is true it will still be awhile before they cover the R&D of the Unit. Personally though I love mine and just hope there are a lot more high quality games like it coming out soon. I hear there is a Call of Duty Vita, that could put Vita on the map in the USA and EU

 

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I'd buy Vita ASAP if there were proper games for it. By proper i mean Metal Gear Solid, God of War, Uncharted, Skyrim, Dead Space, Mass Effect 3. All we have crappy cart racing games or puzzle shiz.
If Bethesda decides to port Skyrim Game of the year edition to Vita, then that alone would be the reason of my Vita purchase.

..... Uncharted is out.

 

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lol dont think the vita can handle skyrim.
i only saw 3 people currently with a ps vita Me, my friend and some guy who works in ebgames who showed it to us.

The Vita has more RAM than a PS3, but Bethesda would likely have to cut polys from meshes and lower texture quality a bit. Neither of those things would be noticeable on a 5" screen, but they would take a good amount of time. I doubt Bethesda would consider putting a game like Skyrim on the Vita unless they saw some really good sales numbers for the system. It's a chicken and egg problem, a lot of people are afraid to develop for the system because it may not sell well, and it may not sell well because few companies are developing great games for it.

I look forward to games like Warrior's Lair, which is basically a Diablo clone for the Vita and PS3, but it is at least 6 months away. Also I might consider getting Assassin's Creed for the Vita if it gets good reviews, although I hate supporting Ubisoft in any way. They're also releasing a Bioshock for Vita sometime this year as well.

 

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The Vita has more RAM than a PS3, but Bethesda would likely have to cut polys from meshes and lower texture quality a bit. Neither of those things would be noticeable on a 5" screen, but they would take a good amount of time. I doubt Bethesda would consider putting a game like Skyrim on the Vita unless they saw some really good sales numbers for the system. It's a chicken and egg problem, a lot of people are afraid to develop for the system because it may not sell well, and it may not sell well because few companies are developing great games for it.
I look forward to games like Warrior's Lair, which is basically a Diablo clone for the Vita and PS3, but it is at least 6 months away. Also I might consider getting Assassin's Creed for the Vita if it gets good reviews, although I hate supporting Ubisoft in any way. They're also releasing a Bioshock for Vita sometime this year as well.

Although is true developer want to see good sale number before making them for that console but sometime good game drive in the sale up for the console if they willing to take risk. If they really somehow ported into PS vita I'm sure the console sales will go up. Just my 2 cents

Btw for people still waiting... you can play Netflix on your vita

 

Excellent numbers! count me among those 1.2 million, The Vita is by far the best portable gaming device on the market to date, nothing comes close.

I've heard the Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford says trying to get Borderlands 2 on PlayStation Vita, and wants to make it happen. another rumors that rockstar consider getting GTA iV on vita like PSP GTA: LCS, VCS did..
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got mine today

its an awesome little rig. got uncharted, modnation and fifa. have tried fifa and uncharted, impressed with both. havnt tried modnation yet. the games coming out for it look awesome though. MGS HD collection, resistance, mortal kombat... so many. cant wait to see what the future holds for this little guy

Congrats.. Yeah I played six vita games and the graphics are amazing on it! modnation's character role play like NES Mario Kart. but ModNation racers is amazing than Mario Kart.

 

I want one of these too, but I have bigger purchases to be made right now.

 

I love my Vita, and pretty much everyone who owns one or reviewed it is also loving it. Sales not blowing people away early isn't any indication of how a system will do, but positive reactions to the system is far more important. Look at the PS2, sales were meh, but it ended up being the most successful console of all time.

The last bit of this IGN article sums up my feelings nicely:

http://vita.ign.com/articles/121/1219656p1.html
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There's also the very significant fact that almost everyone who's played with a PlayStation Vita is enamoured with it. It is undeniably a lovely, lovely console, touched by that hardware design magic that only Sony delivers. Its launch line-up is both strong and impressively broad, and its other software is attractively presented and fully implemented. The 3DS, meanwhile, launched with a rather divisive design, no eShop and a poor launch line-up that took months to mature. People were, perhaps, more eager to write it off.

The games media generally has a very short memory, especially when it comes to console launches. The PlayStation 2's initial troubles were forgotten in the wake of its later astronomical success, and by this time next year it's feasible that nobody will remember that the 3DS didn't start off in the most promising way either. When you look behind the numbers, what you see is that a successful launch isn't always about how much you actually sell - it's about perception. The reaction to sales figures often says as much about the mentality and health of the games industry as the numbers themselves.