| SlorgNet said: Sony has a tough job. The real competition isn't the 3DS, it's the cheap, game-capable smartphones flooding the industrializing world. Vita succeeds or fails on whether it can become the premier gaming platform for the biggest, fastest-growing videogame market in the world: the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China). That means a mix of global games, plus local studios producing regional content. And yes, those memory card prices need to come down. |
I don't think smartphone gaming is really a threat considering you only use the touch screen and the screen is quite small. Not only that, but I know someone who plays those kinds of games, and they have never really been much of a person who bought gaming systems at all.
Who in their right mind would replace a gaming console over a $1 repetitive smartphone game app? Only those who wouldn't have bought a Vita or 3DS anyway. The 3DS and Vita also have games that resemble these smartphone games as well, if you look at their online shops. They may be slightly more expensive, but you don't have to pay to have a plan on a gaming console and gaming on a 3DS and Vita is more ergonomically correct for these things. So barely anyone who would have bought one would replace their gaming to the smartphones.
