Other PS Vita Is the Best-Selling Used Video Game Hardware on eBay Japan

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Read from Siliconera:

1. PS Vita
2. PSP
3. Nintendo DS Lite
4. GameCube Controller
5. Nintendo 64

Here are some quotes from an interview with eBay Japan multi-category manager, Ayako Hayashi:

• “It is our role to support cross-border e-commerce for Japanese sellers.”
• “Used goods in Japan are often in good condition, so they can be purchased with peace of mind.”
• “In terms of pricing, hardware comes before software. We handle more peripherals and the PS Vita is the most popular.”
• “The PS Vita is region-free, so a lot of gamers from America purchase them, and it is easy to get games for it.”
• “On eBay [the PS Vita] goes for about $155, but in Japan and on free market apps here they more or less go for 8,000 yen [roughly $75.33 USD] so it’s easy to make profit.”
• “Incidentally, when it comes to used video game software and hardware, they tend to sell for a lot more whenever there’s something written in Japanese, for some reason. Overseas users have shown plenty of interest whenever there’s something that looks cool with hiragana and kanji.”

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Huh, never figured that but most likely for home brew.

 

[cm2]

Huh, never figured that but most likely for home brew.

yeah I suppose.

 

[froggyboy604]

I wonder how many of the Vita buyers are video game antique collectors.

I feel the PSP Vita is a nice console to add to a video game collector because it is one of the first game handheld with higher quality graphics. It also looks cool.