TeddostheFireKing on 04 May 2012
| Reasonable said: Poor old Vita - facing stiff competition from it's own sibling never mind the competition. Probably a symptom of Sony's woes but they seem to really struggle with letting selling models go and fully promoting new ones. The PS2 to PS3 transition didn't feel smooth and neither does the Vita to PSP. Nintendo by comparison seem to take a much more proactive stance in terms of shifting focus to their new model. Or at least that's how it comes across to me. |
I sometimes think its part of Sony's strategy to have this kind of rough transition, the Vita isn't making that much of a profit and the PS3 certainly wasn't when it first came out, so by having strong sales from the previous gen they can offset the losses incured from the next gen (I hoped that made sense :P), then further down the line Sony hopes that people buy the next gen system when support for their old machine totally drops.
Nintendo also designs their system to be profitable day 1 so they simply want as many sales as possible, dropping support of the previous system helps encourage their owners to purchase their next system to still play games.
