Sony slashes PS Vita expectations by 3 million

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bananaking21 said:

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riderz13371 said:
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST GIVE IT A 50$ PRICE CUT AND REDUCE THE PRICE OF MEMORY CARDS.

Get a fucking grip Sony.

if sony give it a price cut now they will just shoot them selfs in the foot. if they cut the price now it will give the system a push in sales but little to no games releasing it will fall back down. they need to cut the price, have a revision of the hardware include built in memory, have games launching in the near future and a new marketing campaign. i suggest they announce the vita price cute plus new model with 4 GB built in memory wifi version for 179$ and the 3g model with 16gb built in memory for 229$. release it at the end of june or beginning of august. with killzone and fifa coming out in sepetember that would help push sales and continue momentum. 

They have to decrease the price, not increase the quality. That's one of the reasons 3DS wins. It's much inferior, which allows it to be cheaper. Plus 4 GB is nothing. Really, that's just a waste of resources for the redesign for something useless, moreover they pack a 4GB card with almost all Vitas anyway. I have a 32 GB card and I have 7 GB left, but I plan some big PS Store shoppings this month, so I will probably fill it all up. If anything, they could release a special business class Vita with 128 or 256 GB (preferably) on board, but not to make it a standard thing. I would get that one without hesitation.

But alligning the price cut with the release of big games is a no-brainer. Soul Sacrifice will be the last big game with Vita at current price. I have said it a long time ago - Sony will try to milk what it can from the Japanese with this game and just cut the price after that some time before the release of KZ.

its not about increasing quality its about getting rid of a barrier that is holding of some consumers. you beed a memory card to play games, so added to the price of the vita u need to add the price of the memory card. but putting in built in memory u eliminate the need to buy a memory card, so the price of actually jumping on the vita bandwagen becomes cheaper. also i agree 4 GB is nothing, it will fill up quite fast, that will urge users to buy a memory card down the line after the made the investment with the vita already, you dont have to buy it to play games, but u can if u want to. and its to soon for the 128GB vita. thats when the price of the vita itself costs low to manufacture and its already at a mass market price then they could add a more expensive model with alot more memory

@ bolded, i agree

The thing is, I think it'll be cheaper for Sony to just bundle each console with a 4 GB card than to redesign the console and include internal memory. They would have to include some software changes to support two different memory sources as well. Just a bunch of problems that can be solved by putting that one card in the box ;)

And I know it's too soon for Vitas with huge memory on-board, I'm just talking about it for the future, when they decide to do some kind of redesign. There's really no point for it at the moment.