Zlejedi said:
Which might actually be a gamble that pays off. NDS and PSP had total userbase of over 200 milions and tragic attachment ratio or 4-5 games sold per console. Now if Vita is succesfull among core gamers only and reaches 20-30 milions of userbase but that userbase buys 10-20 games each over the lifetime of machine with let's say 1/3 of game sales coming from digital store at twice the profit of high street sales for publisher that would be very viable market to support with games. |
Except that it will never work out that way ...
While they can make it more and more of a "dream machine" to these high end gamers, they probably will not see a significant increase in game sales because (while these high end gamers do buy more games) the high end gamers are more likely to own multiple systems and will be buying/playing games on those systems rather than on the PS-Vita.
Essentially, while there are people who buy 20+ games a year the vast majority of them will own multiple platforms and will be selectively playing the best games available for the PC, XBox 360, PS3, Wii, PS-Vita, iPhone and 3DS; and even though they think the PS-Vita is way better than the 3DS they still won't be buying more than 5 or 6 games a year for it. Even if they do buy more games they're far more likely to be involved in buying/selling used games than the mass-market gamer meaning that Sony doesn't see the benefit from these game sales.
