BasilZero said:
Tridrakious said:
DarkDesent666 said:
Tridrakious said:
DarkDesent666 said:
Tridrakious said:
3DS has Monster Hunter and is cheaper. No surprise that Vita didn't outsell it last week.
The same situation the 3DS was in before the price drop is now in effect for the Vita.
GAMES SELL SYSTEMS. None of the games released week one were system sellers.
Tales of Innocence R releases in January. That will push Vita hardware. They way I see it the Vita sold over 320k units on the PlayStation name alone and will continue to sell based on the name. Sony needs to get some more Japanese focused games for it to be a powerhouse in the country. Now would be a great time for Level-5 to announce a new White Knight Chronicles game for Vita. There isn't much of an rpg base on the system and they could capitalize on that.
For the Western markets the games are there. Uncharted will push systems, especially in the United States. MotorStorm, Fifa, Madden, Resistance (to an extent) will also push systems. Just announce a new Gran Turismo game and Europe will throw support behind the Vita as well.
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It is way too early to say that. Vita is only out in a single region, the memory cards are pretty much sold out, 3DS just came out with a monster hunter game and has a major advantage of being out for 10 months of course it sold more. PSV isn't selling badly far from, 3DS sales dropped significantly in the weeks after it's launch, psv has barely been out more then a week and again is selling well.
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It's also the holiday season. But to be completely honest I really question Sony reasoning to launch the Vita this late into the year.
If I was the person who made the launch decisions I would have pushed the system back to February. The software wasn't there and the PSP is still too strong in Japan. They needed to let that system weaken a little bit more.
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It already was pushed back and alot of people were counting on the preorders for gifts, and like you said it's the holiday season. Also it's software is pretty good, way better then the 3DSes launch. As far as launch line ups go it's among the best.
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The Vita's launch line up was good and 3DS had a terrible launch line up and still sold better than the Vita. Vita was launched in the holidays.
Vita lost to the 3DS in it's launch week. Comparing the launch weeks for both systems, the Vita lost. Vita lost to a system that had terrible games and that wasn't launched in the holiday season. They launched at the same price. Vita lost.
I'm a PlayStation fan. Don't get me wrong Vita has a lot of time left and is in no way doomed. The games are coming. It's just Sony didn't have a strong Japanese focused launch line-up. That's all. I think they should have delayed the system and launched alongside a Tales game.
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I gotta agree on this as well, at least until Jan which I am guessing is when Tales of Innocence comes out right?
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Yep and it would have been a major selling point and since Capcom seems to be in camp Nintendo right now. This would give Sony a little bit of strong faith in Namco.
Sony basically telling Namco we're going to delay our system and launch it alongside your Tales game. Both will help each other out because of the launch hype.
