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ryuzaki57 on 19 November 2012
Salnax said:

Only 1 of the top 4 selling Vita games is made by a company other than Sony, Fifa Soccer. Furthermore, only three other 3rd party games fill the next six spots. So in total, only four 3rd party Vita games have sold over 200,000 copies.

Contrast that to the 3DS. Even if you double the 200,00 copies to 400,000 copies to compensate for the 3DS's being out for twice as long, you still have a dozen 3rd party games with that many sales: Monster Hunter 3G, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Dragon Quest Monsters 3D, Super Street Fighter 4 3D, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Lego Star Wars 3, RE: Revelations, Professor Layton 5, Sonic Generations, Rayman 3D, Inazuma Eleven Go, Ridge Racer 3D, and Super Monkey Ball 3D.

So my question is, why do 3rd parties even bother with Sony systems? It's obvious that if they want to sell games, they have to do it on Nintendo platforms.

Your argumentation is funny at best. Why top 4? Who's ever looked at a top 4? Let's take top 10.

PSV : 4 3rd party games

3DS : only 3

Top 20 now!

PSV : 11 games

3DS : 8 games

Now for the 200K+ sales, I see no logic in taking the life of the system. I think we should mesure comparatively to the actual install base. So 200K on Vita becomes 1.2m since 3DS LTD hardware sales are 6 times higher than Vita's. How many 1.2m+ 3rd party sellers on 3DS? ONE. (btw 1m+ is still one).

Therefore, 3rd party games are far more successful on Vita in comparison to 1st party games than on 3DS, where mario games CRUSH every attempt of competition. That's probably why Namco chose PSVita for the Tales of Hearts remake.

EDIT : What? I've spent 30 min responding to a joke??? NOOOOOOO!



 

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ninetailschris on 19 November 2012

But can the vita sell me a pop tart?



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Paul on 19 November 2012

It might be a joke thread but you would have to be completely blind to not see that all software sales on the vita have been an absolute slaughterfest.

Look at little big planet compared to the console versions or uncharted, Sony can't be happy with those numbers.



Pavolink on 20 November 2012
Paul said:
It might be a joke thread but you would have to be completely blind to not see that all software sales on the vita have been an absolute slaughterfest.

Look at little big planet compared to the console versions or uncharted, Sony can't be happy with those numbers.


Both are selling according to expectations.

 

 

 

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JazzB1987 on 20 November 2012
CCFanboy said:
People say "nintendo fans don't buy third party games" but it is a totally different ball game in the handheld market. That is why developers were migrating to ds and not localizing games on psp. It is both cheaper and safer on nintendo handhelds. Tales of abyss has had to be reprinted several times in europe.

Also if you actually compare games by the same developers/publishers you'll see games still sell better on nintendo. At least last I checked the charts. Dead or alive had sold more then sigma plus. Blazblue had sold more on 3ds. Even metal gear. As you pointed out ssfiv outsold umvc3 and sf x t COMBINED! But like I said that was the last time I checked.

I wonder what the problem is.

Even tho it just came in "lazy" english   without french german italien or spanish translations.

Means quite alot I think



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Fusioncode on 20 November 2012
Salnax said:
Turkish said:
Salnax said:

Only 1 of the top 4 selling Vita games is made by a company other than Sony, Fifa Soccer. Furthermore, only three other 3rd party games fill the next six spots. So in total, only four 3rd party Vita games have sold over 200,000 copies.

Contrast that to the 3DS. Even if you double the 200,00 copies to 400,000 copies to compensate for the 3DS's being out for twice as long, you still have a dozen 3rd party games with that many sales: Monster Hunter 3G, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Dragon Quest Monsters 3D, Super Street Fighter 4 3D, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Lego Star Wars 3, RE: Revelations, Professor Layton 5, Sonic Generations, Rayman 3D, Inazuma Eleven Go, Ridge Racer 3D, and Super Monkey Ball 3D.

So my question is, why do 3rd parties even bother with Sony systems? It's obvious that if they want to sell games, they have to do it on Nintendo platforms.


P4G is Atlus' most preordered exclusive game in history.

One game from a publisher best known for niche games is fairly popular?!?!? Scratch what I said, the 3DS is domed!

This is either a joke thread or you're a very poor troll.



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Salnax on 20 November 2012
Fusioncode said:
Salnax said:
Turkish said:
Salnax said:

Only 1 of the top 4 selling Vita games is made by a company other than Sony, Fifa Soccer. Furthermore, only three other 3rd party games fill the next six spots. So in total, only four 3rd party Vita games have sold over 200,000 copies.

Contrast that to the 3DS. Even if you double the 200,00 copies to 400,000 copies to compensate for the 3DS's being out for twice as long, you still have a dozen 3rd party games with that many sales: Monster Hunter 3G, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Dragon Quest Monsters 3D, Super Street Fighter 4 3D, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Lego Star Wars 3, RE: Revelations, Professor Layton 5, Sonic Generations, Rayman 3D, Inazuma Eleven Go, Ridge Racer 3D, and Super Monkey Ball 3D.

So my question is, why do 3rd parties even bother with Sony systems? It's obvious that if they want to sell games, they have to do it on Nintendo platforms.


P4G is Atlus' most preordered exclusive game in history.

One game from a publisher best known for niche games is fairly popular?!?!? Scratch what I said, the 3DS is domed!

This is either a joke thread or you're a very poor troll.


Both actually.



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