Sony’s Holiday Lineup Won’t Be Enough to Save Vita

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VicViper said:

curl-6 said:

It's doing poorly so far, yes, but the PS3 also got off to a crappy start, and now look at it, it's a beast. Comebacks are possible. I don't expect Vita to outsell the 3DS or anything, but it certainly won't drop off the market without selling 20 million, like some have predicted.

Yet 3DS will pass Wii lifetime sales in the next 6 months... and have all big franchises in japan - which was almost the opposite with PS3. It's a much worse competitor than the Wii ever was to PS3. And PS3 costed 50 to 60 thousand yen, that's very important, since at that price it was selling better than Vita is right now (and difference is growing).

Really, really lousy job. And that lousy job will affect not only japan, but the west too. Next semester Vita will have very few japanese games to localize - very very few, and none that can help sales - I mean... I think earth defense force is the biggest one, or maybe Ys.

Yes, it's doing badly, but I still don't think it's beyond saving.

If games like Assassin's Creed and COD do well on the Vita that could encourage more Western studios to bring their big guns there.