| spurgeonryan said: Well persona is coming for the Vita in June I believe and the pre orders are promising! Pokemon is coming the next week though. |
Couldn't really decide a specific post of yours to quote but this will do lol. The problem with a lot of these upcoming vita games is that they are niche. Some of them are quite big niches but nevertheless they really don't have the broad appeal of something like Monster Hunter. That is the type of game the vita needs to keep sales up instead of just spikes then dropping back down.
Hastune Miku, Persona and Gundam will drive sales for a couple/few weeks. Those games will likely sell a couple or few hundred thousand in their lifetime and be successful regardless of platform. But they will sell to the core fans of those franchises.
Likewise with Soul Sacrifice it is an almost insane choice from Sony. They want to create mass market games at this point and they have gone with something that is WAY too guro to have mass appeal. It will again likely do a couple to few hundred thousand. Had they made the artstyle slightly lighter fantasy and less gruesome I'm sure they could have had more of a God Eater style hit, whereas as is I would expect more De/Dark Souls or Lord of Arcana figures.
June will be a good month for the Vita with Persona, Gundam (I think a lot of people are underestimating this game) and the white vita near the end. Then September (miku is end of August) will be a good month due to limited edition Miku Vitas. However the problem I see is that in mid-July and August it will likely start sinking back to low levels, then likewise in late September (unless something big is announced before then).
The Vita either needs a BIG hit or games like persona, Gundam, Miku coming out every 2-3 weeks. A lot of these upcoming games will give good sales spikes and the games themselves will perform well but long term there just aren't enough and they aren't big enough (Yet that is, I'm hoping Sony focus on Vita at E3)
