{"id":42763,"date":"2012-08-12T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42763"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T09:38:01","slug":"sony-america-ceo-vita-sales-are-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42763-sony-america-ceo-vita-sales-are-acceptable","title":{"rendered":"Sony America CEO: &#8220;Vita sales are acceptable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton has described Vita\u2019s struggling sales as \u201cacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not particularly enthusiastic, but Tretton says despite the number not being as high as Sony would like, sales are at a level they feel comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this industry, you can&#8217;t get too high or too low, because it moves very quickly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s an acceptable number &#8211; and [the number] we&#8217;ve sold: That&#8217;s acceptable. If it was triple that, I&#8217;d be happier. If it was one-third, I&#8217;d be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anything with great rewards is going to come with great challenges,&#8221; Tretton added. &#8220;We felt if the tech was there, and the game support was there, then the audience would be there. &#8230; I feel much better about it now than I did four months ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just last week Sony Computer Entertainment UK head Fergal Gara said, &#8220;I think we haven&#8217;t quite hit the spot with the killer software just yet and I have every reason to think that will happen in the next few months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified on the horizon, the Vita may be seeing an uptick in sales.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/362467\/vita-sales-acceptable-playstation-us-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Activision promises Declassified will deliver a \u201ctrue CoD experience\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42757-activision-promises-declassified-will-deliver-a-true-cod-experience.html\" target=\"_blank\">Activision promises Declassified will deliver a \u201ctrue CoD experience\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Activision Leeds rumoured to take over all Call of Duty mobile development\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40917-activision-leeds-rumoured-to-take-over-all-call-of-duty-mobile-development.html\" target=\"_blank\">Activision Leeds rumoured to take over all Call of Duty mobile development<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Sony regrets not showing off Vita titles at E3 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40121-sony-regrets-not-showing-off-vita-titles-at-e3-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sony regrets not showing off Vita titles at E3 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"PS Vita and 3DS, you\u2019re still screwed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/39608-ps-vita-and-3ds-youre-still-screwed.html\" target=\"_blank\">PS Vita and 3DS, you\u2019re still screwed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"No PS Vita price drop in 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39372-no-ps-vita-price-drop-in-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">No PS Vita price drop in 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"PS Vita struggling to gain sales momentum\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37589-ps-vita-struggling-to-gain-sales-momentum.html\" target=\"_blank\">PS Vita struggling to gain sales momentum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not great, but not horrible either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":26777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[31,23,6174,6182,6181,71,1681],"class_list":["post-42763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-call-of-duty","tag-call-of-duty-black-ops-declassified","tag-fergal-gara","tag-jack-tretton","tag-sony","tag-sony-computer-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42764,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42763\/revisions\/42764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}