3DS huge price cut... what does this mean for PSVIta?

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Hyruken said:
Personally i think this means Vita is in serious trouble in the UK. To the point where it might actually be dead on arrival.

For those that don't know Europe and more specific UK are having to pay £279.99 for the Vita. That is $455.

With the 3DS getting "a third off in Europe" would put it at around £120 or $196. Still more then what the US pay but a lot better then it's current £180 price. By the time Vita comes out here 3DS could be sold by some places for around £100.

Sony will have to justify why people from the UK would have to pay double what the 3DS cost to get a Vita. Especially when if you look at it you can get an xbox for £130 and a PS3 for £180. Meaning a Vita will cost almost as much as a 360 and PS3 COMBINED. Only around £100 less then buying an okish 3d tv. Almost double the price of an Ipod touch, around the same price as an iphone 3gs, almost the same price as a Samsung R730 laptop, only £20 less then a Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab and so on and so on.

The point is there are a lot of products around that price range. A lot of portable devices that in some regards can do a lot more then what a Vita can.
The main reason to get a Vita is obviously the games. But other then Uncharted there is not much coming to it. Sure you can talk about games like LittleBigPlanet and Mod racers but nobody is going to put almost £300 on the counter so they can play those games. You might as'well just buy a PS3 and save yourself £100.

It is a lot of money and i think what has happened to the 3DS is what will happen to the Vita in UK.

I will pick up a DS when it hits the £99 point because at that point it will have a few decent games i.e mario land, Mario Kart, Kid Icarus and that new Resident Evil game. But i won't pick up a Vita until it is more in line with the US prices. It will cost $250 in US on release. In £ that would be £150. Meaning in US your getting it almost half price in comparison to everywhere else.

Setting the price so high in the UK could seriously damage it. People won't pay that here. They didn't pay £499 when the PS3 launched and it then got a huge price cut just a few months later. Since then it has always been 2nd to the 360. The same pattern could happen again but this time with the 3DS.

A £120 3ds will murder a £279 Vita in the UK.

They always do $=€ so 3DS will be €170 in Europe. Vita's wifi model will be €249. Big difference, but not nearly twice as much, more like 45%.

And the price in pounds hasn't been specified, but it won't be 279 when the price in euros is 249, it will probably be £199 to £229. £229.99 is a good guess because that's the 3DS' official price now in the UK and PSV was meant to cost the same as 3DS elsewhere.

I also don't think the 3DS's price will be £120. As I said, today's official price is £229.99. Yes, most shops have discounts, but they'll probably stop doing that once the price comes down, because the reason to have a discount in the first place was that it was too expensive, which won't be a problem anymore. So the price should come to £149 (229-30%=153).

£149.99 to £229.99, that will probably be the difference. £70.