3DS vs Vita: 3rd Party Sales

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MDMAlliance said:

Scisca said:

MDMAlliance said:

Scisca said:
My thought.

3DS: 22.64 consoles -> 23.62 3rd party games
Vita: 3.34 consoles -> 4.45 3rd party games

The % ratio is much better for Vita and remember that we have P4G, AC:L and CoD just out now, 3 third party games that actually sell well and will easily get over 0.25 next week (except for CoD, but it will probably get there sooner or later). Also a funny thing:

23.62 - 22.64 = 0.98
4.45 - 3.34 = 1.11
;)

Vita gamers are more willing to buy 3rd party games. The average sales of a game at 0.08 for 3.34 Vitas vs. 0.14 for 22.64 3DS? This would indicate that 6 million Vita gamers would put the average sale over the 3DS score. This is something that can matter, but in order for this to become a factor, Vita finally needs to start to sell. It has to reach that 6 million level as soon as possible, early next year would be awesome. This shows that Vita can sell much less hardware and still win over the 3rd parties, but it has to sell. It's not selling now.

I knew someone would say this, but that definitely isn't conclusive at all.  Fact is that the Vita's 1st party titles barely sell anything (comparatively speaking), which means that the ratio almost has to be higher.

Yes, I am aware of that, but the "good" thing is, that there is no sign for the 1st party Vita games to gain any momentum, so it will remain a free reign for 3rd parties ;) With 3DS you can't argue that everyone is waiting for the next Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kid Ikarus, SSB, Luigi Mansion, Pokemon, Prof. Layton, whatever else Nintendo comes up with and Monster Hunter 4. Not that much space or expectation for 3rd party games.

We can argue in general that the history of handheld gaming in general doesn't show up a big attachment rate.  Look at the vgchartz for each handheld *console for games that sold 1m or more and you'll see that even the DS didn't sell too many games with over 1m copies sold.  Consoles do much better. 

True, but it's a bit of a different situation now. Developing a game for DS cost like $5, while when it comes to 3DS you actually have to step up a bit and bear some costs. It's cheaper than Vita, but probably more expensive than PSP, so the numbers have to be bigger than they were on the DS to give a simmilar profit. Plus the DS was a dream for pirates, so no wonder games didn't sell well. 3DS and Vita haven't been broken so far.

God, would it kill Vita in just one day if pirates cracked the console...