Sony: PS Vita sales nearly in line with expectations

The PlayStation Vita has sold 2.2 million units worldwide since its launch in February, which--according to Sony CEO Kaz Hirai--is roughly in line with expectations. Speaking to Reuters in an interview published today, the executive said the new portable is performing up to par in most territories."Worldwide, the Vita is pretty much along where we would expect it to be; maybe trending behind in certain territories," Hirai said, declining to specify where sales of the PS Vita were coming up short.
The PS Vita, which went on sale in February at $250, will have to perform better if it wants to draw even with Nintendo's 3DS. That system, which went on sale about a year before the PS Vita, has sold 19 million units worldwide.
One of the criticisms of the PS Vita is that there are simply not enough compelling games available for it. Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto said in May that, "It's obviously a very hi-spec machine, and you can do lots of things with it, but I don't really see the combination of software and hardware that really makes a very strong product." Big-name games that have yet to release for the PS Vita include Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, Little Big Planet, Killzone: Mercenary, Lego Lord of the Rings, and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida said earlier this month that it is "too early" to implement a price cut for the PS Vita this year. Instead, he said he hopes software bundles like those for Little Big Planet and Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified will steer prospective buyers toward purchases.
In my opinion, Nintendo sold so many units of the 3DS, because of the its $169.99 price, not the variety of 3DS video games. 3DS could of cost $199.99, when Nintendo wanted to drop the price of the 3DS or would of been better for them to price it $199.99 at the launch. It is a more fair price for both the 3DS buyer and Nintendo. I see the the $169.99 for the 3DS as a cheap sell from Nintendo, while it is a cheap buy for the 3DS buyers.
"Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, Little Big Planet, Killzone: Mercenary, Lego Lord of the Rings, and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale."Typical "Western" Styled games, some of which I will get but in my opinion we are missing a lot of games that, so far, have only been released in Japan ... where are the titles like Lord of Apocalypse, Ragnarok Odyssey, Ys, hell even digital psp go cable titles on the Australian PSN are lagging behind even NA and EUR/UK and there are obviously load more that I have not mentioned. Miyamoto is absolutely correct when he said "It's obviously a very hi-spec machine, and you can do lots of things with it, but I don't really see the combination of software and hardware that really makes a very strong product."
The support, as in game releases etc., for the PSV is quite strong in Japan and it seems that they don't really care about the rest of the world or they have a "we'll get to the rest of the world later" attitude which makes me really sad because it is a truely wonderous machine and yet Gravity Rush is probably the only game that takes close to full advantage of what the machine can do ... there are others too but if we only have that game and something like Little Deviants then the machine doesn't have the chance it deserves in "The West".  Still I'm giving the PSV some more time to see what happens and to see if Sony Australia get off their huge butts and fight for better content in Australia and if not then i'll be buying all my games from the NA or UK PSNs or get games in from overseas, a sad reality ...