Sony expects to sell 10 million PlayStation Vitas by March 2013, president Andrew House has revealed. Chatting with Reuters Japan, the executive explained that the firm anticipates the majority of handhelds to be sold during the holiday season, once more content has been released.
He said:
The end-of-year holiday season is extremely important for handheld game consoles. To that end, we’ve got showcase titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified and Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation coming out as well as our own first-party software.
We also want to strengthen the Vita’s online services, so we’ll be adding YouTube and Hulu apps. We want to build up those two pillars: games and online.
As of March 2012, the Vita had sold 1.8 million units, making Sony’s aim lofty but not unattainable. The handheld will have to hit its target without a price cut though, as that’s something Shuhei Yoshida ruled out in an interview earlier today.
[source jp.reuters.com]
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Dear Sceptics-and-Naysayers,
WAIT FOR THE VITA! In due time, thousands of gamers will be amazed at the Vita's superior library of games, of new IP games that have whole new art styles and experiences, and tried-and-true games of old IPs like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty! The PS Vita will transform into a powerful, amazing handheld experience which the likes of no gamer has ever seen before, all in the palm of your hands, blowing away everyone with it's bursting-at-the-seams potential!
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You should have showcased Gravity Rush monday night.
yay by that time 3ds will have 35m units sold, 3rd parties will be flying to 3ds and we would promise another 2 AAA games for vita for the second year cos we used 35m to bought them over...
It'll be a stretch. 3DS sales are about to explode again!
Can't see them reaching this without a price cut and even with one I think it would be tough. I hope it happens though, the Vita is a great piece of hardware and has a lot of good games already. It should be selling much better than it is.
Neeeeds a price cut. Its not a question of value for money. Just a question of how many people are willing/able to spend that much money on a handheld.
It seems to me that Sony cant multitask... why do i say this?? good question. We all know that Sony is in talk with different developers to get the best AAA games out on the PS vita.. but what is it that keeping them away from releasing the PS vita full potential? It seems that they are slowly unlocking functions that the PS vita have the ability to do on day one. Cross play should have been implemented on the majority of the current PS vita games, Remote play should have been implemented on most if not all of the PS3 games, PSP, ps1, and PS2 games should have already been available and ready to download and play, A competent browser should have been on that vita, youtube, hulu, and other apps should have been available. Whats the point of have a very powerful machine when it is being limited to what it can do? I dont mind spending $300 if Sony were able to deliver all of these on day one. But like everyone else who bought a PS vita, i was fooled into believing that all of these were available to me when i bought mind. It B.S. that Sony is slowly releasing stuff like this to us.
I dont think Sony learn the mistakes that Nintendo had with their 3DS...You would think for a console that releases after another console, you would try to avoid those mistakes but nope.
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