2013 Price Cuts

[Scisca]

Chark said:

Scisca said:

Do you know anything about the Vita at all? If Sony eliminates one model, it should be the 3G one. Nobody is interested in it, you can't play multiplayer games online without Wi-Fi anyway, so why bother? You think people really want to bother getting a card just to be able to check trophys online and browse the shop or internet on a Vita? $3 is a lot when you are to cut price and lose money on every console sold, especially for a feature nobody cares about. Sony has to cut the costs, and this is the best way. The only reason I can think of justifying this model was to entice mobile operators to offer a 3G Vita instead  or additionally to a smartphone. Can't really say it was worth the effort, so now they should just forget about this model.

Oh, that's really sweet. Yes people use mobile devices to browse the internet, youtube, skype, facebook, twitter, etc. etc.

By next year the cost to manufacture the Vita will be down and they won't be taking a loss like they would have by doing it this year. 3G is an optional feature and there are those who prefer to have the option and those who actually choose to use it. People spend thousands of dollars a year on phones that do this, it isn't outrageous that the Vita offers it too. The iPad has 3G option and those sell well. The 3G card is a small cost in the overall breakdown of the console.

You aparently don't know anything about the Vita. It is a gaming tablet handheld with apps. Some people perfer to have 3G for their mobile devices, it is very common.

BS. This is a console. Nintendo proves on every single step, that a console has to be a console and not a behemoth trying to do everything else but gaming. Every potential PSV customer already has a mobile device to browse Internet on. I'd rather just make a hotspot with my mobile when I want to use Internet on my Vita than getting another card for 3G Internet on Vita. Can't see that happening anyway, since I have a device to browse Internet with much better battery life and the Vita browser is crap anyway. This is a totally redundant option that won't convince a single person to buy a Vita, yet will cost millions every year. Just do the math, $3 x 10 million Vitas = $30 million! And what for, if nobody cares about this and the Wi-Fi version sells much better anyway? The only point for Sony in having 3G Vita is to sell it as a premium version at a profit right from the start. But if one version has to be scrapped and the only one left is to be sold at a loss, the 3G is the one that should go. It's simple, don't waste money on something your customers don't care about anyway.

And Sony said that they won't be taking a loss when selling a Vita 3 years after launch. I kinda doubt they were predicting current situation and such an early pricecut when making this prediction, so there is no chance that they won't be taking a loss next year if they cut the price. Hence it's better to take a smaller loss than a bigger one.

Face it, keeping the 3G version instead of the Wi-Fi one is just stupid. Obviously Sony is known for making stupid moves, but I hope that the current financial situation will force them to think about what they are doing.