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RazorDragon on 13 February 2013
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Scisca said:
RazorDragon said:
Scisca said:
megaman79 said:
maverick40 said:
Own another console if you want 3rd party support. You should know this by now.

Yes, well im sure that theory worked out smashingly for all those Vita owners.


Remember that as of now, Vita is a much more viable platform than the Wii U. Porting a game to Vita makes a lot more sense, than porting it to Wii U. There is little chance that Wii U will get ahead of Vita in terms of sales in 2013, it may even fall further behind if Nintendo fails to release some big hitters this year and people go crazy about PS4/New X-box this Christmas. It's a fair fight between the two brothers in doom, but so far Vita is slightly ahead.

Just a little reality check...


Say that to Resident Evil Revelations HD. Vita has been selling awfully for almost the entire year. Wii U is a new console and is close to the same amount of consoles sold as Vita. It doesn't make any sense to port a game to Vita, that's why only Sony is doing these console ports nowadays.

Capcom has a deal with Nintendo, but I won't lie - it's a big blow and a reason why I've decided to boycott Capcom games. I'm only going to buy the games they release on Vita from now on. But the thing is, RE:R would easily sell better LT on Vita than on 3DS. Yet they chose to ignore it. The situation Wii U is in is quite different, cause this console just doesn't grant you sales of any level, or you could even say - it grants you the game won't sell.


Sorry for ignoring the rest of your post, but i believe i can answer your whole argumentation just quoting that part.

 

How can you be so sure of this? After all, Super Street Fighter IV sold better on 3DS than on the 360, and that was a launch title. Actually, it sold better than all the sales from Arcade Edition versions put together and was released at the same time as AE which had more content and was made for the home consoles. UMvsC, however, sold poorly on Vita, and SFxT even worse, even if both versions had extra content. Capcom may think there's no market for them on Vita, and based on sales numbers from their games I would agree. Just like EA might have no market on Wii U based on sales, Capcom might have no market on Vita too, so making assumptions like "RE:R would easily sell better LT on Vita than on 3DS" when Capcom's sales numbers tell otherwise is the same as saying Battlefield 3 would sell better if it was released on Wii U than on other consoles. Actually, I believe no version of RE:R will sell as much as the 3DS one, but we will see when it's released.