Kenology on 20 August 2012
| 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. |
PS3 had the benefit of releasing while the 360 was established and leeched support from it being as though it wasn't too hard to port over to the PS3 (depsite the initial growing pains which saw the 360 being the lead platform and the PS3 version suffering as a result). The Vita doesn't have that "companion" relationship with another box, certainly not with the 3DS.
Plus, I think Sony isn't in the position to fight like they were with the PS3 - when they created new models and dropped the price relatively early. It remains to be seen if they do the same for Vita but their not in a position to take that kind of hit again.
I'm not too convinced that this is the PS3 situation all over again.
