Naughty Dog : Ps3 and Vita Can Do Everything Wii U Can Do

[Alby_da_Wolf]

HappySqurriel said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

HappySqurriel said:
While he may be techically correct, the PS Vita and PS3/PS4 will not be used like the Wii U on a wide scale because no developer can count on a PS3/PS4 owner having a PS Vita and vice versa. On top of that, the Wii U will probably be in a price range where the unit as a whole is close to half the price of the PS Vita and PS3/PS4 combined.

Sony could provide a controller with screen as standard equipment too, besides allowing PS Vitas (and maybe the next PSP versions too) to be linked to PS4 as additional controllers as rumours suggest: this whole set of features not only would allow wide scale support, but it would beat Wii U at its own game.

Unless the PS4 launched with a screen in the controller as standard equipment publishers and developers would not readily target this functionality because they can't count on potential customers having this equipment.

To see my point all you have to do is look at the list of games that support Playstation Move. While the size of the list of games is impressive for an add on, almost half of the games are developed by Sony, most of the third party games only use Move as an optional element and are not designed to take full advantage of it, and the handful of games designed explicitly for Move by third party publishers are low budget "shovelware".

You can't "Answer" an advantage your competition has as standard equipment with something that is optional, especially if that optional equipment is expensive. Throughout the history of the industry countless addons have been released and the vast majority of them are very poorly supported by third party publishers. Why would anyone assume that something with the Playstation brand would immediately be immune from this?

Edit: To make my point even more clear ... Much of this functionality could have been implmented using Nintendo DS/Wii connectivity or PSP/PS3 connectivity, how many games can you name that were developed by third party publishers that used both the home console and portable system?

That's just what I wrote too, did you read my post?    Support of portables as additional controllers with screen should be the added bonus, let's be naughty towards Sony as it would be towards Nintendo and let's call it "the improvement of the stolen idea"!