Vita needs permanent $169.99 price drop. Here's why.

[Max King of the Wild]

the_dengle said:

Max King of the Wild said:

First of all, Sony doesn't need to sell more than the 3ds. That's an unrealistic feat brought up by people like you. Sony isn't expecting or should expect to sell on the same level as nintendo. That market has been dominated by nintendo 20 years before the PSP came to being. Selling 80mil first try is mission accomplished for Sony even though Nintendo sold more.

Secondly, Vita needs as much asaving now as the Ps3 needed in 2006. In other words, none. It needs to sell and make money. Even with a small userbase Sony and 3rd parties can be profitable with the machine as long as they know the market and have reasonable expectations.

lol. Yes, people like me. It's funny how a little over a year ago, Vita outselling the 3DS was an inevitability, and now it's "an unrealistic feat."

Of course, it is unrealistic now. Sony doesn't have to outsell the 3DS, and that's good, because they can't. What they do need is to sell well enough to stay afloat and continue receiving software support. They're not doing that right now. In order to do that, they need a price cut and a rebranding.

And sure the PS3 didn't need saving in 2006; that's why it got a price cut in 2007, right? Also note that I never said the Vita had to outsell the 3DS. It was the OP that stated Sony needs to make drastic changes to save the Vita.

You'e two links provide no evidence against what I said. Ps3 recieved a price cut in 2007 because drastic price reductions in blu-ray technology allowed them to be able to drop the price. They still were making loses but that doesn't change the fact that if the price reduction didn't exist they never would have done it. Exactly like the Vita will do next year. Not because it needs saving but because price reductions in HW manufacturing will allow them to reduce the price which will help them make more money.