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rutea7 on 09 February 2012
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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. 


ff4 isnt nearly as popular as X and the psp had a lot of piracy problems. i guess mgs wont reach 1mil.

but still not having a big selling game in the first few months wont mean a system is doomed as long as the library as a whole and the system features are apealing. i can tell you have a different (biased) view that wont change so it might be a waste of time to post this.

a loooooot of people out there are interested in the vita and will buy it, as the games come out more and more people will buy it. so what if the 3ds sells more? with 2 dedicated handhelds on the market you see the one that sells less as instantly doomed? thats a messed up way of looking at things.

the vita is more expensive and something i wouldnt put in the hands of a kid lightheartedly, it's something a tech lover like me who likes gaming wants.

if the 3ds managed to recover from that (lets face it) crappy launch lineup you think a system with a much more ineteresting lineup wont be able to?

would you like to compare game libraries for the next holiday when the time comes? you might not want to do that, just saying.

my positive views regarding the Vita wont budge and i can hapilly rant on how excited i am about the system, how mindblowing it is to play it, how many great games are coming for it and how i cant wait for the 22nd to come over and over again.

sorry but i'm a happy gamer and regardless of whether you'd like vita to fail or not it's far from doomed.