WiiU or Vita will sell more in 2013?

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the_dengle said:

platformmaster918 said:

Mnementh said:
Ah, interesting thread, thanks. Would you be so nice to bump this thread at the end of the year? It would be great to see how the expectations turned out. I personally voted about even. I see both Sony and Nintendo working towards better sales, that will probably have similar effects.

yeah I'll try to remember to bump it

People seem to be assuming Sony will have nothing for E3 this year for Vita.  Soul Sacrifice, Tearaway, and Killzone aren't going to be the only games this year and the only reason we know all this stuff will be at E3 for Nintendo is because they had a direct in response to slow sales to basically announce their announcements.  Sony has a couple games but probably wants to hold back.  In the end it's not when you announce but when you release (this applies to PS4 and Nextbox too)

I'm sure Sony has some announcements planned for E3 (although that's what we thought last year as well), but they have nothing at all in their repertoire that can stand among Mario, Mario Kart, and Zelda -- except maybe Gran Turismo, but I don't think it can beat Nintendo's potential trifecta.

I won't deny that those games will have more selling power if they all release.  However if Vita gets a price cut at E3 or earlier for all regions I think Sony can have built up a good enough lead pre-holiday and have good enough BF bundles (if the system is $200 expect $150 bundles) to keep it even or stay ahead.  I think I'm in the minority thinking WiiU won't get a pricecut this year though.  Nintendo likes to make money on hardware and while they did cut the 3DS early the WiiU is already selling at a loss so they would be taking above a $50 hit on every system.  I'm not sure they're willing to make that kind of sacrifice especially if they know sales will be ok if they're releasing all those games this holiday.