HappySqurriel 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. 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. |
nem has already made a good point but ...
We've discussed this before there were many advantages the PS3 had that the PS-Vita doesn't. The PS3 was the successor to the best selling home console ever, all third party publishers were betting heavily on it, and there was another platform (XBox 360) that allowed cross platform development to recover game development costs. Beyond this, the PS3 was selling almost twice as quickly as the PS-Vita is and, when you consider than handheld systems generally sell better than home consoles (because multiple can be sold per household), this is not a good comparison for the PS-Vita.
