Shovelware moves consoles. How Sony can sell more PS Vitas.

[the_dengle]

sethnintendo said:

the_dengle said:

kupomogli said:

 As good as the DS and 3DS are, they have "A LOT" of shovelware and I think the Vita has a better library of good games than the 3DS has, but it has all that shovelware around giving the perceptive that it's getting more support, because it is.

What I take away from this is that you think the 3DS is outselling the Vita because it has more shovelware.

Oh boy.

System leader always has more shovelware.  Check the NES, Gameboy, SNES/Genesis, PS1, PS2, DS, Wii, 3DS off on that.

Of course. The market leader will attract more games, good and bad. But throwing bad games at a console will not make it sell much better. I don't think people are going to suddenly realize that the Vita has some great games they want to play if it gets a few more 'Black Ops Declassified's; if anything, the console's reputation would suffer as it went from 'Vita has no games' to 'Vita has a lot of shovelware and not much else.'

What the Vita needs are games that appeal to broader audiences. At the moment its best titles are a bit too niche to be real system-sellers.

And a global price cut wouldn't hurt, either.