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JWeinCom on 15 August 2013
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Kresnik said:
JWeinCom said:

That won't really work, because Sony has nothing else for kids.  If you're a kid, are you going to buy the system with Playstation Vita Pets, Little Big Planet, PSASBR, and Ratchet and Clank, or are you going to buy the system with Nintendogs, Mario 3D Land, New Super Mario Bros, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Lego City Undercover, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion, Donkey Kong Country, Style Savvy, etc? 


I'm sure you could've done better than that with just a few minutes of research.  Sly Cooper; Tearaway; Invizimals etc. would be the games I'd use to highlight Sony trying to skew younger, not PSABR.

And that's another point - a year ago saying "Sony has nothing else for kids", I'd agree.  Today, I honestly can't agree anymore.  Most of what Sony has done this year has been focused on a younger audience.  Even porting things like Epic Mickey 2 across - makes no sense really, but in the context of "we're filling our console with more child-friendly games" it at least holds up better.

There's no doubt they're not going to beat Nintendo at this demographic.  But equally, they weren't 'winning' anything chasing after their own demographic of older "gamers" wanting a proper handheld.  

Eh... Sony has great stuff for kids this year?  Aside from Epic Mickey, they haven't done anything this year to cater to that audience, and Epic Mickey 2 wasn't appealing to children or anything else.  Sly Cooper seems more aimed at people who played the game on the original PS2.  Of course neither of those games seemed to appeal to kids on the Vita, so the point still stands.  The Vita doesn't have appealing software for kids, and having unappealing kids software doesn't really help their cause.