PS Vita price must be slashed in order to have a chance of succeeding, claims analyst

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Train wreck said:

Im guessing this guy read Sony's official PR for black friday and put 1 and 1 together...

Vita problem has always been its price, If they get rid of the 3G model and price the wifi at 179, incorporate some form of cloud storage/game storage they could charge in lieu of those expensive memory cards, their sales would be comparable to the 3DS on any given week (ratio of 65/35 to 60/40 on most given weeks) instead of the 90/10 85/15 we have today.

I agree except for the bolded. The 3G model is the one that should stay, it is required for the pinpoint geolocationing. The Wifi only version should be annexed, yet the price should still drop to the same. 3G isn't really costing them that much, its like another 10$ at best. Supposedly the Vita is making an avg $60-90 per console sold. I think at 199 standard(only 20 dollars more than 3DS) Vita will do just fine. The also should have NEVER made that exclusive deal with AT&T, the 3G plan is complete rip off at what it is priced at now. I paid the 30dollar fee and ran out within 3 days.