what exactly is granting PS4 a better future than Vita ?

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torok on 25 August 2013

cheesecake said:

torok said:
They actually always perform pretty good with home consoles, so if we take the history as example, it would be a indicator of a good performance. Even PS3, with a terrible launch, no games for years, massive price and so on already made almost 80M units sold and probably will pass 100M with ease. 3 consoles, 3 100M sellers, they are solid performers at this.

Now to more concrete reasons:
- They have a good price point. 100 US$ cheaper than One and delivering more performance than Wii U for just 50 bucks more.
- Good pre-sales figures
- 3rd part support
- Some big exclusives (Gran Turismo, Last Of Us, Uncharted, God of War. Not anounced yet, but they will come in some years)
- Developers are pretty happy with it

100 bucks more

Yes, my bad. Anyway, if Nintendo doesn't adress the 3rd part support (and even if they do, the power difference will still put them in direct competition with PS360), it won't be competitive enough.

Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

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COLD_COBRA_ on 02 December 2013

You're really going to like these upcoming Europe numbers for the ps4.

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COLD_COBRA_ on 08 January 2014

COLD_COBRA_ said:
just making sure I have this thread tagged.

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superchunk on 08 January 2014

Games and a reasonable price point.

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Arkhandar on 08 January 2014

NintendoPie said:
The Vita will have a wonderful future, just like the PS4. Do you know why? Because Cross-Play.

... If the PS4's support will be as OK as it was when announced, then I can see it doing Average - Good. If this support drops off and Sony decides to go the PS3 route, then the PS4 won't be doing all too well.

Hmm, no. If Cross-Buy, or Cross-Play for the matter, was to have any noticeble impact on Vita sale it would already be noticiable.

I don't see why this will change in the future.

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Otakumegane said:

RolStoppable said:
Third party support that is real.

That's all folks!

We're done here.

https://twitter.com/tecmokoeieurope/statuses/417712908525924352

If that's not real third party support, I don't know what is :D :p

Being serious though, Sony have the home console market under much better control. I don't think they particularly did too much wrong in the first year of Vita for it to sell so badly. It's had a great lineup of games, the market just isn't there for it the same as it is with home consoles. Pity really.