Forbes: It's a Rough Fall for the Playstation Vita

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Argh_College said:
haha Vita has no chance agaisnt Iphone and 3ds.

Sony leave the handheld market, not only you arent giving us good games like 3ds but you are also being absolute humiliated by competition.

and it does not have to be , all it has to do is offer another choice to the consumer, selling less than your counterparts is not always the end of a product when if the sales are still great enough that there is still a demand for the product by the retail chain!

unlike the PSPGo the PSVita still has a demand by the retail chain..but..but for how long? right well got news for you and many here the PSVita is not going to be pulled, and there is a very simple reason why. Good or bad Sony cannot Afford to do it.

this is not about the PSVita vs the Nintendo 3DS product when Sony designed the PSVita, it never was it was about the PSVita vs the Smartphone and staying viable against a product that already absorbed another market the dedicated PDA. Sony has had first hand experience with such a problem, 

"The Vita is trying to flex its muscles in a world where the latest smartphones are rivaling it in terms of specs" 

this has more truth than you may think, and this is exactly where Sony has put great thought of the future for its platform's the PSVita is not trying to it is in that market it has to be in  that market and reason being that is where most of the 3rd party developers are going! 

You do know the very same chipsets these ultra high end smartphones have, the PSVita has also, right? if you did not know why sony put that in there, its not mainly about the PSVita vs' the 3ds. 

It was never about that it was the fact that smartphone's just like the Dedicated PDA market the smartphone has absorbed the handheld market and is now the leader in handhelds. 

Not only in sales of the hardware but in the software sales also. while Nintendo and sony have dedicated game handheld systems that are fantastic, make no mistake about this this is not up for debate because it is 100% a fact the smartphone market dwarfs many times over the sales of dedicated game handheld systems in market share many times over. 

That is the blunt truth. even though the Nintendo 3ds sales are fantastic and so is its software sales it pales vs the Smartphone sales of even Sonys xperia brand smartphones! and Sony is not even anywhere near the leader in that market Samsung, apple is far greater and larger, but even still Sony is selling over 7.8 million xperia smartphones per sales quarter! 

the real truth of the matter is the PSVita was set and positioned and set for the smartphone market not the dedicated handheld game market, that is what people are overlooking 

and the reason being is the very fact it is using the same high end SGX GPU and Arm cortex processors that the smartphones are using. Sony unlike Nintendo have been in the handheld market in other ways aside from gaming, that is the dedicated PDA market, they know 1st hand experience what happens. 

This is not about upfront sales with such a platform because right now that is almost a moot point to try to compete in the market the way you use to be able to if your brand strength is not as strong as other brands that is what Sony is facing right now, and that is also exactly what they are positioned to have the greater chance of being able to overcome these hard challenges. 

its not a shocker that Sony made the Playstation suite and that it runs on the xperia and PSVita and other Hardware that is not even Sony made hardware also. its also not out of the bundling of the PSVita with the PS3 as a package to be sold as one bundle soon. 

Sony is not going to drop the PSVita like many seem to think, the reason being they cannot afford too, the PSVita is going to be supported by sony's first party efforts one way or the other, too much investment, good or bad Sony is not going to drop the PSVita anytime soon the reason being is the few profitable parts of Sony as a whole in their company is the playstation part of their company, and less than 10,000 unit sales per week is not very much for some but it is sales, and it will provide profit.Sony will package it with the PS3 before long anyway and that so happens to be the trends in game console hubs being the main option for gameing in the next generation anyway. Nintendo with the WiiU and Microsoft with Smartglass and Windows surface and windows Phone. Sony already is set for such a movement shift. with the PS3 or PS4 and with the PSVita and Xperia line as the mobile connection to the Hub.

many i see just do not look past the real target of what the PSVita was really geard toward and want to keep hammering home the PSVita vs the Nintendo Handheld. do you really think its about that anymore? really? Sony once again per sales Quarter over 7.8 million experia smartphones!! do you really think this is about a market dynamic of maybe 100+ million in about 8 years if you are lucky to obtain that number in the game console market? in 10 months Nintendo sold 19 million 3DS game systems, in 3 months times Sony sold over 21 million xperia smartphones!

Sony is going to bundle the PSVita with the ps3 to challenge the WiiU and Microsofts SmartGlass. bank on it before they even think of pulling this product!