Do you think Vita had nothing to show at E3?

[Ajescent]

forest-spirit said:

Ajescent said:

When the Vita was announced, people lawded it for having a good price and a great batch of games during release I seem to recall people saying it had the most launch titles since ever.

So to recap.

Nice hardware

good price

quantity of games

So...what happened?

Consumers chose not to buy it. Makers of products can only do so much, if consumers choose not to buy something, there's little that's going to change that.

Vita got a lot of praise from forum-dwellers, yes, but you have to realise that we're talking about a minority here. Even if most of those praising the system bought it, it wouldn't translate into that many sales.

The price was only good when the Vita and the 3DS cost the same, but then the 3DS got a price cut and all of a sudden $250 weren't that good of a price anymore. Plus, you have to factor in the expensive memory cards.

And the system certainly had a lot of games at launch but it lacked system sellers. Having a lot of games won't mean much if the target audiences of those games are small.

So no, it's not the consumers fault that Vita is where it is. If you should blame anyone you should blame Sony for not putting in more effort into taking the system out of the niche cave it currently resides in (assuming that's what we want here).

Not just forum dwellers, it got praise from journalists and analysts as well. I'm talking specifically about after its E3 reveal.

Aside: If consumers are easily swayed by a price cut I think that says a lot more about consumers than anything else. 

You say the Vita lacks "system sellers" I see people say that all the time but what exactly does that mean? Do we mean big block busters that shows of a console's feature Or shows you why a console is unique?

Uncharted GA did that 

Do you mean a well known franchise that has a huge following?

COD: classified and AssCreed had those

And that's just naming 3 games.

There is no defining checklist of what makes a system seller. So people keep saying "It lacks system sellers" makes no sense.

The Vita has a huge library of games that caters to every taste, from "system sellers" to "AAA" to yearly releases, to Indies, to mobile but yet, no one is buying it.

The Vita could come tomorrow with a £25 price cut, people will still ignore it.

I still see this arguement with the PS3, the ps3 costs about half what it did when it launched and has more games than sense, yet people still say:

"I'll get when after a price cut."

"Or, I'll get one when Last Guardian/Agent/Versus comes out."

Completely forgetting the rediculously large library of games that came out before.

The hardware is good, the library is good, the price is good. yet people still choose to ignore it.

At what point, do we turn to the consumers and say "Seriously people, what the hell is going on?"

Blaming Sony and the game devs/publishers etc is easy but the consumers play just as big a part as the others.