GamrDebate: Is the Playstation Vita already doomed?

[Conegamer]

Zlejedi said:

Conegamer said:

The Vita needed 3 things to be successful: A competitive price, a good games lineup at launch and advertisement. Lots and lots of advertisement. 

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This is compounded by a lack of any sort of advertisment for the console outside of gaming websites and magazines. I hae yet to see a single advert for the Vita, and very little pushing from retailers (no midnight launches in any Game or Gamestation here in the UK, for example), could easily lead to the average consumer to believe this new console is simply another PSP with an extra analogue stick. A much greater marketing campaign will need to be launched in the UK in order for the Vita to be even slightly competitive at launch.

Is he a retard ? You don't start big advertisement for mainstream customer months before release. You want to start it shortly before launch to make the most out of it.

Excuse me, but the release is mere weeks away, not months, and Sony has made little to no effort to advertise it. Not even in shops over here (as I said, no midnight launch). And the 3DS was being advertised in 2010 in shops and on sites, several months before release. Couple this with the fact that the 3DS (and most other console launches, for that matter) had a large media push starting about 8 weeks before launch, and the lack of public knowledge only compounds the fact that there's a lack of advertisement for the console. Of course numbers of ads will increase, but it's still too late IMO. In future, please don't resort to such lowly, degrading statements against anyone. It's just poor. Especially if they wrote a thorough, detailed argument and opinion, then you retaliate with a simple sentence. It's neither polite nor clever. And please do not respond to this post. And don't respond to posts in the future without a detailed argument. It's merely polite.