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Sensei said:
RazorDragon said:

Vita has been a low seller for a whole year now. I don't think a price cut can save it anymore from being the lowest next-gen seller. Wonderswan had a low price and got awesome japanese games, and still it sold quite badly when it was alive. 


I don't quite understand the comparison. The Vita has already outsold the Wonderswan (in Japan alone) in only just over 1 year on sale while Wonderswan was available for more time. It even had Final Fantasy games while the Vita had none yet. Vita has in one year a library that is almost as large (larger if we consider PSP and PSone games).

Also considering Sony never abandoned its platforms, and no Sony platform ever sold below 70M, we have to see how many repeated failures it will take for Sony to finally give up on it. I say not any soon.


I mean, i'm not saying Sony will abandon the platform. They clearly won't as their current situation allows them to keep selling Vitas for a long, long time, but I don't see the sales taking off no matter what they put in it right now because it's selling incredibly low for one entire year and the situation, sales-wise, keeps getting worse as time goes on. I used the Wonderswan as a comparison in how even having great games(Wonderswan had exclusive Final Fantasy remakes!) with a incredibly low price($59) AND amazing portable hardware(SNES-quality graphics in 1999, it could compete graphics-wise even with the GBA and lasted more than 20hrs on a single AA battery) cannot sell handhelds. If the Vita, successor of the PSP, which sold more than 70M units, couldn't outsell a handheld that was against the Game Boy and was the first take in handheld gaming from a company that didn't worked with videogames, then it would be absolutely impossible for it to recover.