| OdinHades said: We'll have to see, but the PSP also needed some time before it really took off. Sure, it wasn't the same situation as with Vita. But the strong technology inside the Vita gives Sony an advantage in the long run. In a few years, the 3DS will look really old even to kids and parents. But the Vita will have decent technology even in five years or so. That way, the Vita will be able to survive significantly longer than the 3DS. Same as with PSP and DS. It's even perfectly possible that the Vita is on par with Nintendos next handeld system |
The problem with this argument is that the PSP DIDN'T need time to take off. In 2005, the rough equivalent to the Vita's 2012, the PSP sold almost 90% as well as the DS, over 9 million units. That was a pretty fast take-off. The PSP was at its best in 2008, the same time as the DS, but only because it got a new Monster Hunter and God of War that year, and its multimedia capacity was still impressive.
The PSP began to overtake the 3DS in 2011 and 2012, but that was NOT because the PSP had more impressive tech. It was because the DS was successfully being replaced by the 3DS, whereas the Vita is still failing to replace the PSP. If you add up the numbers, you'll find that Nintendo's technollogically inferior pair of handhelds combined (17.4 million sales in 2012) far outpaces the technologically advanced PSP and Vita combined (7.8 million in 2012).
Incidentally, that ratio is similar to the DS:PSP ratio of 2007 through 2009.
