M.U.G.E.N said:
ugh no. Not lynching (lol?) at all. He is overly negative about pretty much everything. New game coming out? multiplat? doesn't matter. Digital only? doesn't matter etc etc etc. At some point it stops being critic and becomes an annoyance. I don't mind discussing all aspects, good and the bad. There's a difference. |
Ha ha! I know. His ban was ridiculous though. Who watches the watchmen on VGChartz?
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As for the Vita situation, I think that Sony screwed it up even before the Japanese launch. We all know that (except for Gran Turismo ) their first party games do not sell very well, and their systems always rely on other companies hits.
Still, instead of securing some key franchises like Monster Hunter by paying what it was necessary, or helping to develop a proper Call of Duty, they spent their money making a lot of first party games, believing they would recover the investment as fast as possible. But they are not Nintendo...
The quantity of Sony-developed games on Vita has no precedents for a one-year-old system in the PlayStation family. But who are you gonna sell those games if nobody has your console? Before releasing so many, you need a decent user base and to achieve that, you need popular games! Of course, funding other companies games won't return you benefits immediatly, but it's an investment for the future! Once you've sold enough consoles, your own games will sell too!
Now it's too late for this, and I have no idea how they could reverse this situation. Securing Monster Hunter was trascendental in Japan this generation, and I still can't believe Sony didn't see that. No matter how much Nintendo paid Capcom (assuming there is an exclusivity deal), Sony should have paid more because they are not Nintendo; they need 3rd parties to survive!
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