Vita’s fight for life: After almost a year, has Sony’s handheld managed to distinguish itself?

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spurgeonryan said:

CCFanboy said:
Can I ask what sony were thinking when they ignored how important the japanese market is to handhelds? Did they think monster hunter would just lock in place or something?

I must admit I was very surprised by how important monster hunter was to psp success there. The sales are talking though. Obviously there must have been other reasons psp sold but was monster hunter really the system that got psp famous there in the first place?

But they were stupid ignoring the importance of japan. Those developers are the driving force of handhelds.

Nintendo has their biggest franchises now. Monster Hunter, Pokemon, and Dragon Quest.

 

Kind of hard to compete. Sony should be able to get at least one of those. I do not see why they do not make it happen. Any other really big franchises over there? I mean really big. Do not give me some  million seller.

Other than other Nintendo franchises like 2D Mario, Animal Crossing, and the Wii series?

There's main-line Final Fantasy games and... Mario Kart?

Unless Sony can talk Square Enix into making a lot of Final Fantasy remakes/ports, I think Sony is going to have to make a new killer app themselves.