Jumpin said:
Chark said:
Jumpin said:
If these incredibly poor sales continue, the Vita will probably be killed by Sony in under a year and a half's time.
If Sony wants to reassure people that they have games, they should reveal them; right now they sound like some obviously virgin teenager who claims to everyone that he has slept with dozens of girls, but refuses to reveal the names of any of them. Later on people will be asking where the games are? Others will still think they're coming until even after the system is canned. |
I've said this before, but if the Vita continues to sell terrible than Sony is more likely to go all digital than to stop the Vita. The Vita is a profit machine for Sony. The hardware is at cost or better (3G Vita definetely) and every single title is day one digital. If sales are still low and retailers are looking to stop efforts Sony can pull the physical plug and push hardware sales themselves, though I still think retailers would hold on to hardware and especially accessories (they do it for Apple products and those are all digital). Vita can fall back on PS Mobile for that matter, the incomming hundreds of games and apps could sustain the system. Down the road they could even add phone functionality after reducing energy consumption and size.
These are possibilites for a system like Vita. It isn't the physical only days anymore. The Vita isn't limited to one outlet for software. It has physical, digital, digital only, classics, and PS Mobile. When PS4 launches Vita will increase in functionality and new games will be created on a PC like architecture which to me sounds like PSN game compatibility between the systems.
Digital capable handheld systems are far more durable than a typical console. The manufacturing cost are lower, the shipping cost are lower, and profit margins are higher. It doesn't make much sense for Sony to terminate the system with the profit margins they are achieving right now is enough to keep it going and the potential to turn the system around is worth all the effort.
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A system't cost is not merely just the sum of its parts, but also the manned factories which produce the hardware, the factories which assemble the hardware, the quality assurance to make sure that those facotires aren't producing defective goods, the shipment to warehouses, the warehouse expense, the distribution to retailers, etc. I don't think Sony will maintain that infrastructure just to support a few digital games that barely have a market.
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Yes and those cost have been relatively applied to support at cost or slight profit on hardware. There are a variety of alternatives to ending the product. Ending the Vita has to be among the worst possibilties. It is not a safe backing out but a complete failure and damaging to their business.
