PSV v 3DS v PSP v DS - TRUE Aligned launch - Week 80 update. BRUTAL

[Michael-5]

RolStoppable said:

Michael-5 said:

RolStoppable said:

Well, it takes a great mind to understand Nintendo's masterplan.

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PSV and PS360 isn't a comparable scenario. The PS3 was promised great third party support and when it failed everything went multiplatform, so the 360 benefitted as well. The PSV has nothing really big on the horizon except for inferior versions of PS360 games. The 3DS is powerful enough to run the games that the majority of Japanese developers want to make and Western publishers would like to see handhelds die, so the one and only company that has to save the PSV from irrelevance is Sony. Whether they do it with price cuts, first party games, moneyhatting third parties for exclusives or a combination of the aformentioned is their choice. Although given the 3DS's lead, they'll have to do all three.

This is true, but it could all change with some support from CAPCOM and a good PSV exclusive Monster Hunter. We will have to wait until Captivate..

It would be incredibly stupid of Nintendo to buy Monster Hunter 4 exclusivity only to allow some other MH game to be made for the PSV, so I wouldn't hold my breath. Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid are up for grabs though, so maybe Sony can convince Square-Enix or Konami to make a big exclusive for a system that will take a long time to hit the two million mark in Japan.

Konami has always been faithful to Sony, a PSV exclusive PSV is a given, but it won't help sales much...

I guess with MH4 as a 3DS exclusive, is PSV's life set in stone? Is it a dead system?

Maybe for PS4, Sony won't go graphical whoring...their best consoles had the worse graphics of the gen, and focused on games.