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[Salnax]

VGKing said:

Salnax said:
Seriously, can anyone think of a killer app for the Vita other than Monster Hunter?

*Looks at how only Monster Hunter games have broken a million sales on the PSP in Japan*

Oh... never mind.

Yeah, I don't see what the Vita has going for it. Even if it also gets Monster Hunter 4, are people willing to buy a new system solely for the same game they can get on a cheaper system in HD? At this point, the best games I think will really help the Vita are PS2 games like FFX and the MGS collection.

In Japan, Portables > Consoles

From the looks of it, it's worse than that. The DS nearly beat the rest of the 7th gen systems combined for a while, and the PSP only did as well as it did because of one notable franchise. Remember, the Monster Hunter games account for about a quarter of all PSP software in Japanese history. Losing that title as an exclusive is a bigger deal than Nintendo losing Mario or Pokemon on the handheld sphere there, if only because the 3DS would still have the other franchise and Animal Crossing and whatnot to compensate.

What I'm trying to say is, the PSP might have been a sucess only because of a single franchise. Without the franchise, the future of the gaming industry in Japan could be synonymous with the 3DS exclusively, as opposed to handhelds in general.

I'm probably wrong. But when one handheld sells so much without any big new titles, I get suspicious.