| enrageorange said: It has everything to do with the games. The 3ds's library is currently so much better than the psvita's its not even fair, especially in Japan. Not only does nintendo now have Monster Hunter, but it also has Pokemon, Animal Crossing, and New Super Mario Bros which are all bigger than monster hunter in Japan, and Mario Kart looks like it will become bigger than monster hunter as well. The only psp games to sell over 1million copies in Japan were the Monster Hunter games. The DS had 37 different games sell over 1mil in Japan. Sony literally has next to nothing now that they lost their only big portable franchise in Japan. Heck next week the 3ds will pass the psp in number of games that sold over 1mil in Japan, and it's install base is less than half the psp's. |
Clearly software has been more successful on DS and 3DS... so why not on PSP as much and now even worse on PS-Vita?
It isn't purely a software quality issue right?
I mean Valkyria Chronicles 2 on PSP is phenomenally good software. There are other notably high quality softwares from both PSP and PS-Vita, yet they don't sell anywhere near as well as software manages to sell on DS / 3DS.
I don't buy that software of DS / 3DS is that much better... it must be Nintendo's marketing or brand that is stronger. Sometime simple as more people carrying around their 3DS for StreetPass causing more word of mouth consumer awareness.
Heck, I would even buy that Sony going all digital with the PS-Vita harmed them with retailers giving them less shelf space and store promotions. It's a problem of consumer awareness. The only "real" problem with the PS-Vita since the start to me has been that ridiculously priced unnecessary proprietary memory card they chose. Everything else has been better than I expected.
I mean people were upset over the 3DS missing second analog stick, and yet it sells better than PS-Vita that has exactly what people were complaining about?
