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sethnintendo on 12 April 2013
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the_dengle said:
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.

Problem is Sony marketed the PSV as a home console on the go experience.  However, Sony had very little to offer for a hand held consoles and was hoping for more 3rd party support.  Reminds me back in the early 3DS days when developers were abandoning ship due to low 3DS sales.  The problem Sony faces is that most of their IPs are home console IPs and don't translate well for a hand held game.  If Sony was smart then they would of had an exclusive GTA, MH, GT and something else that moves hand helds in the first year of launch.