Allegedly those one hundred titles will be out by March--but it doesn't clarify what are retail titles and what are the smaller downloadable titles:
"Also, to call all of them games is a bit strong. Some teach languages, others are slot machine simulations, and so on. Most will likely never head West." (Eurogamer)
A good chunk of them look to be Japan only (as were some of yesterday's 3DS announcements)--it's a case of Sony padding the numbers to have something eye catching on websites around the world, and it's working. "100 titles?? Vita ALREADY has a better library than 3DS!!"
No. No it doesn't. It doesn't have a library of software until these games are on shelves or available to download, and it's a good bet a few at least will get delayed--100 titles in a few months just isn't commercially viable or desirable for a system building a userbase from scratch in one market. It's Sony playing for headlines in Japan, and who can blame them?? There's no new Monster Hunter title on that list, there's not even the previously confirmed upgraded Portable 3rd, compared to the confirmed Tri G on 3DS (out one week before Vita) and the even bigger Monster Hunter 4 confirmation for 3DS, which we can assume for now, is exclusive. For Japanese gamers and press, that'll be a glaring hole in Vita's line up.
Make no mistake, all of this is largely aimed at Japanese consumers and press--Sony don't have anything as big as Monster Hunter to show, so they're trying to show that software support for Vita is very strong by throwing out an eye-catching number. It's not a bad line-up at all, but Nintendo are getting passed their early problems and drawing up a long line of big guns--and their first party big guns have been joined by the biggest gun of them all in Japan--just as Sony head to market with a formidable portable. It's going to be an interesting battle, to say the least.
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