badgenome said:
I just don't think the Vita is a priority for Sony, period, and I don't know why they even launched it in the first place. But yeah, I think they have especially taken their eyes off the ball when it comes to games. All they had to do was line up substantial software support from day one, and the rest would have taken care of itself. They even let Monster Hunter - the game that basically single-handedly saved the PSP - slip away from them. Now it's stuck in one of those feedback loops where nobody will make games for it because nobody else is making games for it, and the Vita is dead because everyone thinks it is dead. A lot of your arguments give me the impression that you think it's somehow ridiculous to expect a platform holder to make games for its own system. It isn't. Sony blew something in the neighborhood of $100 million for marketing the Vita in America, and that ad campaign was almost completely invisible. Considering how massively ineffective it was they would have done better to throw that money at publishers to get them to make Vita games that could shift hardware. The Vita doesn't make a good comparison to the PS3 because the PS3 was always going to get good software support. It was similar enough in capabilities to the 360 that it could always piggyback off of it in a way that the Vita can't piggyback off of any other system. More importantly, after the PS1 and PS2 all the third parties were banking on the PS3 to be a successful product. When it flopped they were all too invested in it to drop it and had to follow through with their planned support, so it became a success anyway. It's the flipside of how the Wii was written off by all third parties before launch and when it became such a runaway success no one was positioned to take advantage of it. |
"All they had to do was line up substantial software support from day one, and the rest would have taken care of itself. They even let Monster Hunter - the game that basically single-handedly saved the PSP - slip away from them. "
you do not think soul sacrifice may have had something to do with that? you do not think capcom, will wait for the PSVita to gain more install base before they support the PSVita with another Monster Hunter?
just because people on forums here think the platform is dead does not mean outright it is.
"The Vita doesn't make a good comparison to the PS3 because the PS3 was always going to get good software support. It was similar enough in capabilities to the 360 that it could always piggyback off of it in a way that the Vita can't piggyback off of any other system."
and the PSVita is not the same piggy backing as it would for smartphone's and Tablets?
why do you think sony day in date at the unvailing of the PSVita at the time called the NGP talked about "PLAYSTATION SUITE OR IE: PLAYSTATION MOBILE"
why do you think that Sony is getting Unity 3D game engine running on all three platforms for indie developer's and publisher's?.
Sony's idea for playstation on mobile platforms is not just relying on dedicated game handhelds they are including smartphones and Tablets in the Mobile gaming Mix. Sony is building a unfied playstation Platform. before playstation's like the PS2 and the PSP were not geared toward being a unified platform eco system for development. Sony is going toward that with Playstation. The PSVita is part of that ECO system.
If you have not noticed Microsoft is going about the same thing with Windows 8,
Same with Nintendo. To say that Sony is writing off the PSVita based on these sales projections is a lil narow minded in thinking in my opinion, and people best be sure that can be at their own folly.
I AM BOLO
100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...
ps:
Proud psOne/2/3/p owner. I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.