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UncleScrooge on 09 January 2011
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SpartenOmega117 said:
alfredofroylan said:
SpartenOmega117 said:

I still don't undertand why the 3DS launch is the "best launch line up for all time". Half the list are ports or remakes. So for the PSP2 to be successful sony  just needs to make ports for ps2 or ps1 games and it will be the best launch line up of all time too? Geez and I thought vgchartz dont dont enjoy the milking of franchises. From what I can tell in this thread most of you  love it!

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Tales of the Abyss, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, Super Street Fighter IV 3D, Star Fox 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time are the only ports and remakes in a list of 72 games. That's not half list, plus the launch titles  have only 1 port (Super Street Fighter IV)

And about the franchises, well just look at the top selling games in every console this generation people love milking franchises until the franchise is dried. (like Guitar Hero) 

There are more just look at all of nintendo's games lol


Well, considering we are talking about sales here I don't get this discussion.

The question when talking about sales of the system is how many systems will these games push?

Let's focus on Japan here: Nintendogs is pretty much a million seller. Layton will sell more than half a million units. Samurai Warriors Chronicles is a rather big franchise in Japan, isn't it? And Street Fighter will sell well, too. So from a sales perspective there has hardly ever been such a big launch line-up.

Back to topic: We don't know anything about the PSP2 so far so I won't speculate about its sales potential. But so far Nintendo is doing things right with the 3DS: They still make as many mass market games as they have before (Nintendogs, Mario Kart and Animal Crossing in the first year! That's 3 titles likely to sell more than 10 million units) it's just that 3rd parties are also developing "hardcore" games for the system. There is no opportunity for Sony to place the PSP2 as the "casual" machine because Nintendo is announcing mass market games left and right. There have even been rumours about a new Brain Training game. How can Sony attack Nintendo here? I don't see an opportunity for them, really.

Also Nintendo pushing 3rd parties to develop core games on their system is in no way good news for Sony. Again Nintendo is not in any way reducing their amount of mass market games and 3rd parties neither. If anything we've got a PS2-like situation here were 3rd parties focus both "core" and "casual" games on one system. Or to put it this way: If this was a war between two countries (the core country and the expanded market country ) Nintendo would already have conquered the expanded market country and is invading the core country right now. They are not giving up the expanded market.

The 3DS will most likely launch at 250$ / Euro in the west. So to have a price advantage Sony would have to price its system at 200$. Is that really likely? And with the PSP2 not even announced who says Nintendo couldn't drop the price to 200$ around Christmas 2011? They dropped the DS price to 129$ when the PSP was released.

Anyways, this discussion is pretty stupid without any information about Sony's next handheld so I'll stop it here.