torok said:
DirtyP2002 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
the_dengle said:
The Vita has sold much more slowly than the 3DS sold pre-price cut. It will take more than an $80 price cut to save the Vita, and frankly, Sony can't even afford that much.
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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.
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Sony = Microsoft
3DS = PS3
Nintendo = Sony
PSP = Xbox
--> you must be blown away that MS managed to achieve just that within 2 generations.
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Both Sony and Nintendo won their first and second generations. Both have won generations with a huge advantage over the competition (Ninty with NES and Sony with PS2). They have launched systems that sold more than 100 million units (PS1, PS2, DS and Wii will do it soon). MS lost their first two gens and never achieved any of the other accomplishments.
Their history is more similar to Sega (first gen doing badly, launching second gen early and gaining market but without winning), so I'm not blown away with that, the other two are way more impressive.
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That is one way to spin it.
