3DS and Vita~ The Art of War

[ProdigyBam]

Salnax said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

Salnax said:
The Vita looks like a fine system, but there is something that the 3DS can have that it can't. Huge franchises.

Oh really? Just look at what's announced :P
Call of duty, Assassins creed, Uncharted, Killzone, Bioshock, LittleBigPlanet and FIFA just to name a few. 

I really think sony learnt their lesson with the PSP, and plenty of 3rd parties are signed up (just look at the list of announcments), it will be very well supported. 

The DS had Call of Duty, but it didn't do well. When the games are available on the HD consoles, PC, and even the Wii with some adjustments, I can't imagine CoD making huge numbers on a handheld. Assassin's Creed already appeared on the DS and PSP, but only had moderate sales. Killzone on the PSP never reached a million units. Uncharted is a big franchise, but not huge per se. Bioshock is an unknown quantity on handhelds, LittleBigPlanet is another moderate series, as are handheld versions of Fifa.

I'm not trying to diss the Vita here. There are plenty of big games coming out for it. But systems like the DS, PS2, 360, and Wii are defined by games that sell something along the lines of 10 million or more units or at least to 10% of console owners. The Vita will have many worthwhile titles, but I don't see any of those as big hits that can singlehandedly carry the system.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Uncharted is a franchise best suited for handhelds, and Golden Abyss will become the best selling Action game of all time. Stranger things have happened. But from where I stand, I see the Vita as a system without a few key titles that will sell it to millions, like Mario Kart seems to be doing for the 3DS.

Every time everyone is like Uncharted isnt such a huge franchise, but then they say FF is.

Truth is, as of today, Uncharted 2 outsold FF13 by more than half a million units (PS3), Uncharted 3 is looking to do even more than that, in fact, Sony shipped 3,8 Million units day one thats less than a million than FF13 currently stands at and Uncharted 3 is already sold out in many places (for example in many stores in UK).

The Uncharted series will be at about 15 Million units shipped by the time the Vita launches, I think Golden Abyss can be a big systemseller and go on to sell 3 Million plus (without bundles) which is huge for a launch title.