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Cobretti2 on 22 July 2012
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qmoney88 said:
homer said:
NeoRatt said:
vita has poor overall sales compared to 3DS, but a very strong following...

would you rather have 10 million people buy that purchase 3 games during the entire lifetime of the device or would you rather have 1 million people buy that purchase 50 games for the lifetime of the device?

sales are not everything for devices that are game centric. although this site promotes that... sales to core gamers that buy many more games then casuals are important.



Your comparison might be correct if there was data that supported your claim that the vita had a higher software attachment rate but in reality...it doesn't...

You cant track digital sales, which this device is clearly aimed at.  I have purchased 8 actual vita games, only one is physical media (umvc3)  the rest (Gravity rush, MGS hd, MK, D3, Rayman, U:GA, and wipeout) were all digital purchases for me.  Sony stated they were very pleased with digital sales as well.


i am pretty sure sony can track their own digital sales toa psn account just like nintendo will be able to do with 3ds digital sales.

in any case you still haven't really answered the question. the only way we will know what the attach rate is once we get some official data.

For one I got i think 13 3ds games myself. None on vita yet as waiting for a price cut to come to Australia.

Vita ona tech levelisimpressive and has an excellent chance of winning the west with the game annoucements so far, but it will take time to catch up in sales to 3ds. Nintendo will need to step it up with western style game support to cater to more people if it is to maintain the lead. One missed opportunity was pokemon. They released two black/white and conquest on DS. Now they need to wait a while for people to get sick of those games before releasing pokemon 3ds. Pokemon has always been a hardware seller for them and no was the time to bring it. next two years will be interesting in the west for handheld gaming to see how it all pans out. 

Personally I feel the vita is almost dead in Japan since its lots MH and the 3ds line up isamazing there.