Is The Trophy (Running WP7) Outselling The Xperia Play?

There was a lot of hype and speculation over the Xperia Play. It apparently took the better that a PSP and Android phone had to go and put it in one package that you could ever get on you. A PlayStation Phone was one of those things that was alleged to shake the market. But has it?

The initial reviews of it were shaky but youd figure it would meet a decent following over time.

But as we learned the Xperia Play game titles had exceedingly poor initial sales. But just how poor is it doing? Well lets use some quasi (at best) reasoning here. If you go to Verizons website theres a general correlation between the amount of reviews and the popularity of phones. So as expected the iPhone 4 has thousands of reviews and the HTC ThunderBolt has over 4300 reviews and the Blackberry Storm 2 has just over 3700 reviews.

Now lets see at the HTC Trophy, the only Windows Phone for Verizon. It as 334 reviews. The Xperia Play has 84 reviews. Yes, just 84. Now this isnt hard science because theres no definitive correlation between the amount of reviews and the sales (since we dont get those kind of stats available) but you can assume there would be a general correlation here. And if you think that the Prize is acquiring a lot of reviews because people who buy it are passionate about Windows Phones so you get to be suggesting the opponent about the Xperia Play - that its users are not enthusiastic about it. Oh and yes, theyve been available in the US for the like point of time so thats not at consequence here.

For my two cents Ive never seen an Xperia Play in the violent and yes I do see Windows Phones in the wilderness but admittedly nowhere near the levels of other devices. And it doesnt alter the fact that I think MS should provide a specific chassis that is in argument with the Work and make a subcategory of games that use physical buttons because it makes gaming a lot better. But for all of the years of hype and speculation surrounding this twist its somewhat surprising to see it underperforming and in fact being outsold by a device that Verizon is just marketing.