| Mythe said: He forgot to mention that the exact same game you can buy on the iPhone will be marked up 5 to 10 times as much on the Vita. Plants vs. Zombies is $3 on the iTunes store while on the the Vita it will be $15 dollars, or ( not Vita related but still relevant) on the PS3 X-Men is $10 and on the iPhone it's $1. Charging more for "bigger games" is understandable, but charging way more for simple, casual, downloadable games on the Vita is wrong. Core gamers are the people that are buying the Vita and spend the most amount of money the on video game industry per person. Yet it is the Core gamers that are getting ripped off. I'm actually thinking about canceling my preorder of the Vita because it has no games coming out that I want to play, or that I can't play on my home console, or play on my iPod for way cheaper. |
That's the bigger issue than the availability of full retail priced games in my opinion and likely in the opinion of anyone who already games on an iOS or Android device.
Unless the physical controls made that much of a difference, why would I pay more for the same game I can play on my phone or tablet? Admittedly, a lot of games simply don't work that great with touchscreen only input, but for those that do (and any decently designed game made for touch interface should), it's a very hard sell on the PSV.
I don't have an issue with paying $30 for a portable game chip, or even more if the game in question is really that good (something like MGS Peacewalker) and it's not available on other hardware platforms (like Chains of Olympus before the HD port). But the reality is for games in that price bracket, designed to be played for hours rather than minutes at a time, I'd rather be playing them on a console. There are very few games I can think of offhand that actually work better as portable games, so it's almost always an issue of convenience, whether that be throwaway game pricing (iOS/Android) or ports of games I enjoy so much that I feel somehow obligated to take them with me on trips, which is extremely rare.
