| curl-6 said: The whole Vita situation right now really reminds me of the PS3 in 2007, from the complaints about price and "no games," to the predictions that it would drop out of the race soon. I expect that the same thing will happen with the Vita as happened with the PS3; the games people want to play will eventually arrive, the price will drop, and it will sell. Once the holiday season arrives, COD, Assassin's Creed, aggressive bundling, and the holiday boost will see it posting solid numbers. They may even cut the price; they said they wouldn't, but didn't they also claim no PS3 price was incoming shortly before the drop to $299? No company wants to announce a price drop is coming because they know it will cripple their current sales. I won't defend how poorly the Vita is doing so far, and I'm not saying it'll ever catch up to the 3DS or anything, but it's not dead, nor will it be dead by 2014 or anything like that. |
Here is what you dont understand: The PS3 is a home console and the Vita is a portable. The portable space has new competitiors that are shrinking the market and these portable consoles need to make a stand.
This is nothing like the PS3 situation and to be honest the PS3 did terrible considering it came after the PS2 wich was a hugely sucessful system (and the PS1 before it). Sony completely dropped the ball with the PS3 and let Microsoft take the lead on the home market. It was and it is terrible. They are finally getting the upper hand, but to be honest were on the last 2 years of the gen and new consoles are about to be announced. Microsoft was the winner of this gen, Sony lost big time after having had the consumers by the balls in the previous gens (all this considering only the HDconsoles), opening themselves up to defeat.
This time with the Vita though, the consumer isnt waiting for Sony to lower their price point, they are buying iPads and Iphones. It isnt the same thing. Also, while not bad, Sony isnt the developer Nintendo is and doesnt have all these iconic IP's in the system that are garanteed to show up. Honestly, i cant even tell if there will be god of war games for it since they got that developer to make an uncharted game instead.
