VGC is too critical of Sony

[Euphoria14]

Nem said:

Euphoria14 said:
It's just a product of people having too high of expectations, even when they know full well it wasn't going to jump from 13k to 100k with just a new color SKU.

This is evident when people come in and say things like "Vita had a decent bump up to 25k (I expected 35k)".



I think it is doing pretty well for not having the super heavy duty hitters like a Mario, Mario Kart, Monster Hunter, etc... and a price tag of $100 less.

I guess I just look at it differently though since I think the numbers would look a lot different if it was $170 instead of $250.

Thats the point isnt it?

Sony needs to drop the price or no one is gonna develop games for it. The longer they take doing that the further down the bottomless pit they  push the Vita. The question after that is: Can it sell without big games out for it though? 3DS got MK7 SML3D and MH3G. Vita just doesnt have anything else on the same level.

It wouldnt hurt though, and it would give publishers and developers a bit more faith to risk making a project on the system, instead of just porting over their PS3 titles.

 

The biggest problem is, it might already be too late and the system already got such a bad stigma/rep that it will be impossible to drag it back out from that pit. We will know, if sales go back to under 10k in the following weeks.

PS3 had a real bad stigma to it as well. PSP also didn't look so hot before Monster Hunter suddenly decided it wanted to become this gigantic IP. Remember what DS vs PSP used to look like for years?

I think it is still way too early to decide if something had run out of time.

 

Other than that, with both of the handhelds I do not really think the prices of the systems are the issue but rather the price of the games. Ever since Smartphone gaming has gained traction this is becoming even more apparent.

Yesterday I had my nephew over and he was talking about his 3DS. My fiance asked what games he had and he only has like 2 or 3 games. He says he doesn't have a lot because his mom and dad say they cost too much. She is a Registered Nurse and he is a Physical Therapist. they have a combined income of somewhere in the $120,000-130,000 /year range. They can afford them, but when they see what a game costs on their iPad or Android Tablet it makes that $35 3DS/Vita game a bit hard to swallow.

 

I have felt this way for years that games should not cost $35-$40 on a handheld. It makes them look bad, especially when I am playing full featured titles on my phone for a fraction of the cost. What will Time Travelers offer me for $40 that Chaos Rings didn't give me for $12?

 

Buy that iPod Touch 8GB for $180 and give it to your kid with full access to hundreds of free games or buy him/her that Vita for $250, then a memory card for another $40, then finally a game to play for another $40? Even the $170 3DS doesn't look as appealing as that iPod Touch and I would wager that it has to do with the fact that while they may not be as full fledged, you could get anywhere from 10-40 games (Excluding FREE games) for the price of that one Mario Kart.