Price Drop Watch 2012: Japanese Vita Sales Hover Above 15,000 in 6th Week

Another week, another Vita sales slide. Sales for Sony’s new handheld system have dipped some more, according to a post on Gamasutra today. At the end of its sixth week of life, the PlayStation Vita sold only 15,219.

Last week the console had sold 18,361, helping it to break the half-million sales mark. But don’t expect it to hit a million sales in Japan without significant help from its worldwide release next month.

The post notes that the system is suffering from a lack of solid launch software—which was certainly one of the contributing factors in the 3DS’s own sales drop shortly after its release last year. You don’t need reminding, but those slow sales pushed Nintendo to significantly slash the 3DS’s price only a few months after it was first released. Since the system’s price dropped, it’s regained ground significantly—and people are citing sticker shock and cost of entry as the primary reason keeping them from seriously considering a Vita.

It should also be noted that sales of the 3DS—and in fact all systems across the board—dropped too. The 3DS, number one in console sales, went from 100,668 last week to 80,960. The PSP, the Vita’s much older (and cheaper) brother went from 22,538, to 17,181…still beating the Vita by a couple thousand sales.

Via Gamasutra

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