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This was disputed??!?!?!

If anything Pokemon will solidify this with the naysayers.



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rubido said:
KHlover said:

Yeah, with a gap of ~25Mil in just a bit more than 2 years and the best selling games yet to come I'd argue this handheld Gen is basically won by Nintendo. Like the one before it (NDS). And before it (Game Boy Advance). And before it (Game Boy). And before it (??????).


You may have gone too far!

Oh, I seem to have counted GBC as own Gen...(I mean, you couldn't play certain GBC games on the GB, could you?)



Nintendo has never lost in the handheld market (counting phones is dumb) so any realistic person knows sony wasn't going to take that from them when the PSP didn't even get close.

Please stop lumping every Vita owning together bc you have a quote of someone saying something crazy. No one likes that and you wouldn't like it if we put ever nintendo supporter in a bubble with the few extremist.

I personally own both and even with the fewer total titles I enjoy the vita far more. It's an opinion everyone is different.



TruckOSaurus said:
outlawauron said:
Otakumegane said:
outlawauron said:
Otakumegane said:
kupomogli said:

Vita wins.... in my opinion.  But I wanted argue my opinion which is why I posted this.

Look, we all appreciate the effort you put into making that post but arguing this is just sad.

If you really want consolation just go into the Vita thread, plenty of friends there. Don't force the majority to listen to the rabblings of the vocal minority and suffer because of it. 

I swear the state of the community these days...we know the Vita has good games, great ones even. But even if 3DS games may not appeal to you, they obviously do to the rest of us so instead of trying to justify your purchase by stating "I got the best available" let the lot of us enjoy OUR library. And maybe in the future we buy some Vitas, you're not helping advertise the system if we assume the fanbase is like this.

I want no part of it.

You do realize that the exact thing is happening but in reverse. The effect his post has on you is compounded by 20x for any Vita person by just reading this thread.

I don't mess in the Official Vita thread now do I?

And look the thread's right. The 3DS won the gen, there's no other way to really put it. To state that one think it didn't because it's based on the "opinion" of the extremely smaller minority is pushing it. 

Just accept the loss and move on.

I don't how that's relevant at all. Being that gaming preferences are largely subjective (and it's not like either has a super overwhelming library at their young age), you can't give it that in terms of games. Sales, yes. I don't think anyone expected Sony to ever beat Nintendo in the handheld department for sales.

Gilgamesh did : http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=140560&page=1

And promptly laughed at by everyone. I took it as a joke.



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Otakumegane said:

I don't mess in the Official Vita thread now do I?

And look the thread's right. The 3DS won the gen, there's no other way to really put it. To state that one think it didn't because it's based on the "opinion" of the extremely smaller minority is pushing it. 

Just accept the loss and move on.

No one, not even the most die hard Sony fan is going to be in denial that Nintendo sales are going to be on top.  The reason I posted that was to argue the quality of games over the 3DS because it was stated that regardless what you argued, the 3DS hands down had better quality.  I listed every first party game and every highly praised game for the 3DS as well as personal favorites, compared to high praised games on the Vita.  Took that beyond and compared multiconsole title differences between Vita and 3DS where the Vita heavily outweighed the competition in quality, whether it was MGS2 being included with MGS3, or the higher performing versions of other titles.

The point of the post was that the Vita can easily be argued that it has more quality titles than the 3DS.  This is the reason I bolded this statement which was in the quote specifically.  Just seems to me that Nintendo fans don't like to be proven wrong so you're making such a big deal about the post.

"You can argue quality in different ways, I get that, and the 3DS may be for you. But on almost every way you look at it, the 3DS wins out. The only way it doesn't is if you really don't like Nintendo games, and if such, why get a 3DS in the first place?"

Maybe I should have this picture added to my sig since everyone is offended every time someone says something bad about their preferred console.  My two 3DS systems next to my Vita.  Because apparently, anyone that says anything bad towards one console developer must not own that console. 



The sales might be on top, but really, what games other than 1st party nintendo games really sell in the million pluses. We can all say that "Well 3ds has got SMT, Monster Hunter and other games!" Ok but those games dont even sell well and I would not be surprised if some of those franchises come back to their fan base on the ps vita. Monster Hunter didnt do that well in NA, SMT does not sell much on 3ds either. Persona 4 Golden alone outsells every SMT ever released on a nintendo handheld, not combined, but separately. Im not putting the 3ds down, I actually like it, but you guys act like each of these games are going to sell millions lol. I pulled these numbers from this very site. All the SMT titles on psp also sold much more than the 3ds/ds titles. Maybe one day Atlus will realize it. Maybe Devil Summoner 3 could come to vita, who knows.



 

KingKazuma34 said:
The sales might be on top, but really, what games other than 1st party nintendo games really sell in the million pluses. We can all say that "Well 3ds has got SMT, Monster Hunter and other games!" Ok but those games dont even sell well and I would not be surprised if some of those franchises come back to their fan base on the ps vita. Monster Hunter didnt do that well in NA, SMT does not sell much on 3ds either. Persona 4 Golden alone outsells every SMT ever released on a nintendo handheld, not combined, but separately. Im not putting the 3ds down, I actually like it, but you guys act like each of these games are going to sell millions lol. I pulled these numbers from this very site. All the SMT titles on psp also sold much more than the 3ds/ds titles. Maybe one day Atlus will realize it. Maybe Devil Summoner 3 could come to vita, who knows.


Your really don't understand differances in franchises or the sales of the games do you?



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kupomogli said:
newwil7l said:
Lmfao. It's funny how people are justifying the Vita losing by talking about "quality" This is a sales website people, don't lie and act like you don't care about sales all of a sudden.

Those who own multiple consoles or game on PC couldn't care less about sales and rather focus on the quality.  All I care about is the games.  My judgment of the best portable, console, etc, is all dependent on which systems get the most amount of quality releases and how  good those releasese actually are.

Ljink96 said:
Sorry 3DS won already. There is no way Vita will take 3Ds's thunder. Now way in the world broskis. 3DS has so many games and alot of them are system sellers.

Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, Fire Emblem: Awakening, and the soon to arrive Pokemon X and Y are just a few system sellers. Tales of the Abyss 3D sold better on 3DS than that new Tales game on PSV. I know it isn't fair but guys it's a port! If one thing is for sure Nintendo's handheld market will take a good while to kill off. Pokemon is about to debut if full 3D and the apocalypse will start thereafter. 3DS is king right now and I want Dragon Quest VII! Is Dragon Quest VII on PSV... nope. Not getting it unless I can hack it for free games.

This is a very poor way of thinking right here.  I'm not a fan of pirates for any system.  It's what killed the Dreamcast in the west and while the PSP kept selling, it killed the potential for future releases and the chance for many of the games to actually receive a western release.

Poor way of thinking, maybe. Will it make a difference if I use homebrew to play Super Mario Bros. on the NES emulator? No. And FTR the Dreamcast shot themselves in the foot with limited graphical capability over PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox. Plus, you can't easily pirate a game over 1000MB. I only pirate oldies. NES-64 because you can't really buy the games anymore. I know my limits good sir. I knoweth them well too.