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Find a way to convince 3rd party to develop on their handheld ,the reason why 3rd party don't make game on Sony handheld is a mystery.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

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pokoko said:
It's not hard. Invest in building franchises that appeal to kids. That's the only way to sell a handheld in North America.


Something like this? http://www.vgchartz.com/game/5165/grand-theft-auto-liberty-city-stories/



HoloDust said:
How about no handheld at all...just tablet (or tablet range) with Google Play and PS Store and similar hardware concept as this one:

I like it.



My 8th gen collection

MohammadBadir said:
how about Dual screens, one touch and the other is a normal screen, call it DS


Write this man a check, Sony.



RafaelAmorim said:
pokoko said:
It's not hard. Invest in building franchises that appeal to kids. That's the only way to sell a handheld in North America.


Something like this? http://www.vgchartz.com/game/5165/grand-theft-auto-liberty-city-stories/

I suppose if they acquire the rights to GTA they can do that, too, but I'm not holding my breath.



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I have one though, not calling it "Vita", because it makes it ironic.



artur-fernand said:


Meh, the days of exclusive third-parties are over. Not even FF, KH or MGS are exclusive anymore. PS3 didn't secure anything (and the 360 had Bioshock a whole year before, not to mention Mass Effect) and it turned out pretty well. Nowadays, the decising factor are the first-parties, and Sony is in a better position than MS in that regard, imo.

Also, I don't know in what universe is Nintendo securing exclusives.

Oh, I don't know.  Bayonetta 2, Wonderful 101, Lego City Undercover, Zombie U, Monster Hunter 4, etc.

Days of third party exclusives aren't over, or else you wouldn't have publishers still paying for them.  And yeah, the PS3 did end up overtaking the 360, but how long did  that take?  Infact, how many years did it take before the PS3 actually got a lot of decent exclusives of its own?  The PS3 started selling more only when the system gstarted getting more exclusives.  Sony fucked themselves by not paying off developers who announced exclusivity at first, only for Microsoft to come by and sweep them over to the 360 as multiconsole titles.  Assassin's Creed, GTA4, Final Fantasy 13, and Devil May Cry 3 were going to be exclusive to Sony.  The only one I know that got paid off to go multiconsole was Rockstar, the others clearly saw the sales the Xbox 360 was getting and thought it'd be in their best interest to just develop for both consoles.  .

Paying third parties for exclusives is bad for the industy in my opinion, but if developers don't want to make games for the system, then people aren't going to be interested.  So while the PS4 is a more powerful system and a better value by being less expensive and more powerful, it really doesn't have as much of an issue, but no one wants to develop for the Vita.  No one wants to buy the Vita because it has no games as developers, including Sony, couldn't give a two shits about the system.



Sony needs to do the same thing Nintendo need to do.

Make their console/handheld enterprises a single omni-device which utilizes cloud processing and create a unified platform which has some games which need the TV and handheld, and some which simply just need the handheld. Effectively becoming 'Steam on steroids'.



AZWification said:

The next Sony handheld needs games that appeal to the Western audience. That's the Vita's biggest weakness. Lack of games that appeal to the Western audience( not saying that all the JRPGs the Vita is getting are bad,  but they are not going to appeal to the typical Call of Duty/ Madden fan)


I have a Vita and love it, but I agree with this :'(



gooch_destroyer said:
MohammadBadir said:
how about Dual screens, one touch and the other is a normal screen, call it DS


Write this man a check, Sony.


A blank one :)