GamrDebate: Is the Playstation Vita already doomed?

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rutea7 said:

Salnax said:

rutea7 said:

Salnax said:

rutea7 said:

the launch lineup might not be very appealing for the japanese market right now but it has a ton of games releasing in the first half of the year

Like what?

I'm dead serious. The 3DS had a lot of games coming in its "near future" at launch era, but as the launch ended, those games were either duds or delayed. What does the VIta have to support it?

oh geez are you serious?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Vita_games

i counted like 10 games i want off that list, of course i wont be able to get them all this year, some definitly wont release this year outside of japan. but with that list and whatever they show at e3 i'm sure there'll be plenty to play for all tastes. well, maybe not the taste of nintendo fans since there's no mario or zelda =P

Yes, there are a lot of titles, but which of them will sell millions.

the ones i think will sell over a million eventually are mostly remakes, there's a lot of new IPs and no way to know how well they'll do. metal gear solid collection and final fantasy X should sell over a million for example. i'm very excited for ZoE cause i never got to play them but i have no idea if it will sell well. uncharted is one game i think will reach a million, from what i tried of the demo it's a very good game and deserves to sell well.

like i said, variety, games that appeal to more than one type of gamer and that freaking gorgeous screen. Vita is far from doomed and saying its doomed will just make you feel silly in the future.

I wouldn't be so certain that remakes would reach a million, or be system-sellers;

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/49135/final-fantasy-iv-the-complete-collection/

This game has been out for about a year on a console with a far larger install base, and yet, it hasn't even managed 400k WW. Now let's have a look at the Metal Gear collection:

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/51649/metal-gear-solid-hd-collection/

300k, add the 360 number and you reach just under 600k. Still a long way off a million, with a combined install base of around 125mil. Surely if any Metal Gear collection woulld be a million-seller, or shift HW, it would be this one.

 

My point is, collections and re-makes neither push console sales nor do they sell millions. Only original games, like Uncharted, would do this. The best chance of million-sellers on that list would be Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet and Resistance IMO. There may be a constant stream of moderate hits (i.e. will reach about 250k WW), but nothing to attract people to buy the console, and so won't have a large effect on HW sales.