| Slimebeast said: It will get a price cut before the Holidays for sure. That will lift sales but still not to respectable levels. Assassin's Creed (forgot the subtitle) and COD Declassified will do almost nothing as both honestly look bad. COD especially looks absolutely horrible. Not that it matters because as people alreay have said so many times, not many gamers are interested in having the PS3 experience on a handheld, as evident by the excellent handheld version of Uncharted - it sold well, but it's not a Mario or Zelda that truly pushes units. Vita is not dead, it will hang in there and be supported for a few more years but it will always be seen as a failure. The writings are on the wall. I don't need the upcoming Holiday season to make that statement. |
I dissagree with the sentiment that no one wants console quality experiences on a handheld. The 3DS has been successfull almost exclusively off console style experiences- Zelda, Mario Kart, Mario 3D land, Monster Hunter Tri (in jap), Resident Evil, Kid Icarus, Fire emblem (jap) and Kingdom Hearts. Some people may argue that the 2 mario games are more handheld experiences, but they are simply handheld interations of already popular console franchises. Bit sized handheld gaming has been claimed by smart phones, Nintendo cannot not longer rely on brain training titles and nintendogs to succed this time round. The main difference between nintendo's Strategy? Nintendo has mario (and the the entire under 14 market), sony do not...
Mario and Monster hunter+ a price cut and huge advertising campaign paved a way for the later 3DS titles to do well.
Comparably sony's big guns for the fall have are often competing with console iteration. Even though COD:diclassified and AC: liberation are orginal games they are launching day and date as the console versions (super dumb!!!). I think RPG's are the real way to make a handheld successful (unless your mario), sony don't have that unfortunately and the action games they are trying to bring to vita look unambitious compared to their console counter-parts. I still think an updated Elder Scrolls:Morrowind and FF Type-0 could have been massive for Vita, even though they would both be ports. I think the key is to have games which won't suffer from the move to handheld (LBP is a good example).
