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ninty_shareholder64 on 02 March 2012
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oni-link said:
VGKing said:
Not at $600.
The people who buy a 3DS or Vita are in a completely different class than those who will buy an iPad.

You know people say $250 for Vita is too much......


Yes, but when Apple releases an iPad mini or reduces the price of it's iPad2 to combat budget Android devices and gadgets like 3DS and Vita it is inevitable that it will impact the dedicated portable videogame system.  It's a lot less childish to many mainstream gamers to game on an iPad than it is to game on a Vita and 3DS and that is the stigma Vita and 3DS has.  Again this article is pretty insightful:

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/ipad-3-vs-ps-vita/


There was a time when gaming in general was childish, nerdish etc.

If we take a look the other way around, the market is expanding like hell in the last few years.

We could have a win-win situation instead of a win-lose situation. More people are playing mobile games than ever before and some of the new "i-casuals" could buy a Vita for homeconsole-experience on the go, too. No statistic convinced me that it is a win-lose situation so far.

As aforementioned the situation could very well be like the PC vs console battle in the 90s,... "with the new graphic-cards slaughtering the console market, like the consoles did with the arcade." We know how that ended.