| GhaudePhaede010 said: What in the world is going on with this thread. Look, it is very simple and pretty much black and white. The problem with Vita has been and will always be the pricing model. It is simple, you charge 300 for a console and then jack up the price of memory units and what you have is a recipe for sales failure. Sales of phones and tables have absolutely no impact on hand held gaming. Well, not enough impact to be considered substancial. You guys are drastically overthinking this situation. Games are games, we know both Vita and 3DS are going to have some games of interests and games that span almost every genre (from console type games to arcade type games to pick-up-and-play type games to unique to their platform type games) but what caused 3DS to struggle in the beginning (yes, MORE than a lack of games) was the 250 US price tag. Bottom line, that is too much for anyone not a hardcore Nintendo fan to pay. The same is said of Vita. The difference is, Nintendo dropped the price (and sales picked up athough phones/tablets are still, "in the same market") and Sony has decided to ignorantly maintain their pricing model. That is your key difference, and now it may be too late for Sony to do anything (including dropping the price) to regain any momentum they once had going with Vita. 3DS is better established and dominating this generation, and even PSP has a better library of titles and a cheaper price making it a competitor. You guys are killing me with this talk of phones/tablets hurting the hand held market. What hurts the hand held market is thee inflated entry price on new hardware and accessories. Jeesh! |
Gone are the days where you can just copy console style gaming on a handheld. There are too many imitators out there, and yes, they do affect sales. i.e folks with Galaxy S3s saying **** Vita, this phone is decent enough. So imagine in the next couple of years with even better phones...this is the same exact market for Vita, late teens/early-mid 20s with money to blow, that love expensive tech. They would rather upgrade their phone than stick with something "archaic" as Vita.
We knew this was coming, but most folks were in denial. Nintendo it seems have adjusted, & 3DS is unique enough to where phones/tablets etc are not as much a threat to their business, but yes, they've been affected as well. Sony needs to figure out how to market this thing properly. IMO they need to continue pushing the Vita + PS3 (slim), maybe even bundling them, to extend PS3's life/pass up 360 and to show Vita's versatility. Lower the price obviously ($199), & bundle it with at least 8 or 16 gb memory.
