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HappySqurriel on 04 September 2012
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Persistantthug said:
HappySqurriel said:
Persistantthug said:

There's alot of reasons that the VITA is failing.....crap marketing is also among them.  And guess what?  Launching with less than 1 year of maketing and hype has contributed.  That cannot be denied, HappySqurriel.

But regardless of that, I say again, the VITA is not a home console, so really, the whole  of VITA is not applicable here.

 

But even if you wanted to try and barge the VITA into this, a home console discussion, your point and sentiment still fails, because the VITA is a current failure.  That's the bottom line, I'm afraid.  Sorry.

Since you refuse to see the point ...

The Wii was (truly) first shown of at TGS 2005 in September and released 14 months later. A short timeframe between showing off a system and releasing it does not negatively impact sales.

In modern times if you really needed a lot of time to get information out about your product for it to be successful Apple would be one of the least successful technology companies in the world. While game developers need time to develop games, consumers have demonstrated that they don't need a long period of time to be marketed to.

"Two years later, engineers and designers were brought together to develop the concept further. By 2005, the controller interface had taken form, but a public showing at that year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was withdrawn. Miyamoto stated that, "[W]e had some troubleshooting to do. So we decided not to reveal the controller and instead we displayed just the console."[14]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

 

 

As indicated,

We knew about the Wii well before any launch, and before TGS 2005.  That's a Year and a half lead time, bro.  And guess what?  The Wii is successful (bottom line again)

 

This is the second time that your point(s) have been blown up.

If this were a debate, you'd officially be losing  right now, HappySqurriel.

The display of the console was effectively showing off the case ...

The first meaningful demonstration of the Wii was the concept video at TGS, and the Wii would have sold no worse had they skipped showing off the case at E3, and it would have sold no better had they shown off the TGS concept video at E3.

In a day and age where you can get tens of millions of people watching your youtube video in a month what benefit is there to announcing something 24 months before releasing it? If it is actually interesting people will get the information about it alost imediately, if it isn't interesting no matter how long you announce it prior to being released it won't suddenly become interesting.

Take the iPad as an example, it was announced January 27th 2010 and released April 3, 2010; if Apple can launch the iPad to massive line-ups in 66 days why can't Sony release a successful console in roughly a year?