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"We want to retain the beauty of what makes Vita Vita."

I agree!! We wouldn't want the Vita to actually start selling competitively to the 3ds and actually becoming successful now do we?

/sigh



                  

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AwakeandAlive said:

One reason why Sony may not be looking at a PS4/PS Vita bundle just yet could come down pricing. Right now, the PS4 sells for $100 below the Xbox One, and bundling a $200 piece of hardware would potentially reduce Sony's competitive edge.

I think that is the only reason. Maybe when both the price of PS4 and Vita has fallen they are able to do this.

Or they could just be saying that to surpise us at E3 with a $500 PS4/Vita bundle :)



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gigantor21 said:

Oh, fuck off with that bullshit, Sony.

Your efforts to bolster the Vita's lineup with "bespoke games" has been sorely lacking. Games like Tearaway and Killzone--big-name titles being helmed by your major studios--are far too rare for the system to stand on it's own. There are still yawning gaps in franchise representation for the system, with no Infamous, no Gran Turismo, no new news on the Gravity Rush sequel and no news at all on a sequel to Golden Abyss. I can name maybe 3 retail releases I want for the system this year, and two of them (FFXHD and DW8) are late ports. There's no way I can take their claims seriously after seeing what Nintendo has been doing to support the 3DS.

And what has been your focus instead? Punching up remote play as a major seller? Right, because spending $200 on a dying handheld and $50 a year for PSNow--which will only work decently on a fast wi-fi connection, if at all--will have the Vita flying off shelves, right? And we all know streaming stuff at home has made the WiiU a major seller right? Meanwhile, their push to promote indie titles (many of which are multiplatform) and PS+ requires dealing with the train robbery prices on their custom memory cards. If they're so big on pushing the Vita's unique titles, why the fuck do they make it so expensive to simply get enough storage for them?

I'm sorry, but as a Vita owner, I'm getting sick of their wishy-washy bullshit. Instead of either shelving it or going all out to support it, it's being left adrift in this weird, irrelevant limbo. They can say whatever they want, but they've shown themselves more than willing to leave the device on life support in practice.

I agree that is shit for Vita-owners - but it is economically reasonable. They don't want to damage consumer-trust by killing the device early, so they keep it on life-support. But they can't afford to bleed money into producing games, that will sell bad. I see the same happening for WiiU. Nintendo will release the already announced games, but at least 2015 it will be only a few games and mostly smaller titles. Just enough to keep the system alive. But not investing too much into games, that will sell badly. Both companies have platforms they can make money with: Sony with the PS4, Nintendo with the 3DS. I think this shit will go on for both systems.



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EricFabian said:
Nintendo should join forces with Sony to bundle Wii U + Vita.

Beauty waste of space and money everywhere

Price it at $499... Xbox killer confirmed!



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EricFabian said:
Nintendo should join forces with Sony to bundle Wii U + Vita.

Beauty waste of space and money everywhere

LOL, that would be a bundle. I think sales will be exploding.

Actually that makes me sad.



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I would rather have a vita with my console than a kinect. Oh well.



 

I think that Sony don't know how to price the bundle properly :v



Mnementh said:
gigantor21 said:

Oh, fuck off with that bullshit, Sony.

Your efforts to bolster the Vita's lineup with "bespoke games" has been sorely lacking. Games like Tearaway and Killzone--big-name titles being helmed by your major studios--are far too rare for the system to stand on it's own. There are still yawning gaps in franchise representation for the system, with no Infamous, no Gran Turismo, no new news on the Gravity Rush sequel and no news at all on a sequel to Golden Abyss. I can name maybe 3 retail releases I want for the system this year, and two of them (FFXHD and DW8) are late ports. There's no way I can take their claims seriously after seeing what Nintendo has been doing to support the 3DS.

And what has been your focus instead? Punching up remote play as a major seller? Right, because spending $200 on a dying handheld and $50 a year for PSNow--which will only work decently on a fast wi-fi connection, if at all--will have the Vita flying off shelves, right? And we all know streaming stuff at home has made the WiiU a major seller right? Meanwhile, their push to promote indie titles (many of which are multiplatform) and PS+ requires dealing with the train robbery prices on their custom memory cards. If they're so big on pushing the Vita's unique titles, why the fuck do they make it so expensive to simply get enough storage for them?

I'm sorry, but as a Vita owner, I'm getting sick of their wishy-washy bullshit. Instead of either shelving it or going all out to support it, it's being left adrift in this weird, irrelevant limbo. They can say whatever they want, but they've shown themselves more than willing to leave the device on life support in practice.

I agree that is shit for Vita-owners - but it is economically reasonable. They don't want to damage consumer-trust by killing the device early, so they keep it on life-support. But they can't afford to bleed money into producing games, that will sell bad. I see the same happening for WiiU. Nintendo will release the already announced games, but at least 2015 it will be only a few games and mostly smaller titles. Just enough to keep the system alive. But not investing too much into games, that will sell badly. Both companies have platforms they can make money with: Sony with the PS4, Nintendo with the 3DS. I think this shit will go on for both systems.

Oh, no, I'm not saying the economics don't make sense. The time for a big investment in the Vita has passed; bundling it with the PS4 would just be a waste of precious stock.

But that's why their pretense of supporting the Vita on it's own pisses me off. They aren't fooling anyone. If they really wanted to sell Vitas, what they're doing now would've happened a year earlier (if not sooner) and we'd see far more first-party titles. As it stands, they're putting in the bare minimum while focusing on the PS4 (which has a future) and even the PS3 (which has lots of sales already).

There's no urgency. Between those 3 consoles and PSNow, it's clear where the Vita stands on their priorities. After all, people expect a bundle because they've promoted Vita as an expensive WiiU-style Gamepad for a while. -_-

And I agree that Nintendo will pull away from WiiU support in the same way. I don't expect many big marqee titles after Zelda U. Not when their support for the Wii dried up so fast despite it being successful.



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