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JWeinCom on 31 August 2013
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small44 said:
JWeinCom said:
iamdeath said:
Wright said:

So we count ports and multiplatforms now as games? I thought that in VGChartz, if it isn't exclusive and only on retail version, it isn't worth mentioning!


HTF are they not GAMES??? Total garbage. I guess all those games on on 360 and ps3 that are multiplatform are not games eithyer? Some people like being able to plat them on a portable.


It's really simple.  If I already have a system capable of playing Rayman Legends, why am I going to buy a Vita so I can play Rayman Legends?  Or Final Fantasy X HD, or Sly Cooper Thieves in Time, or PSASBR, and so on so forth.

The XBox 360 situation is way different.  Both consoles launched within a year of eachother.  So, when people were making the choice of what to buy, they likely didn't have either.  So, if I wanted to play Modern Warfare 4 I had to buy either a PS3 or an XBox 360.  From there, I'd look at exclusives or features I wanted.

The Vita on the other hand is came out something like 7 years after the 360 and 6 years after the PS3.  Most people in the Vita's target audience will have one of those two consoles.  If I have a PS3, why should I shell out 200-250 bucks to play games that I could already play?  If the portability is really that big of a factor to you, then buy a Vita, but for me, and many others judging by sales figures, that isn't the case.

What about who don't have a ps3?

If people want exclusive new ip why they don't buy Gravity Rush and  Soul Sacrifice.

The problem is most people who would be interested in the Vita do have a PS3, or at least a 360 which has a lot of the games. And if they don't have a PS3 they could buy one just about the same price (250 as opposed to 250 plus a memory card) if portability is not a big deal to them.  If portablility is a big deal to them, then you have the 3DS with a better library.  There are some people who are  better off with a Vita than a PS3, XBox 360, or 3DS, but that's a rather small amount of people.

Edit:  I wasn't talking about new IPs, but exclusives in general.  Of the top 20 games on the Vita, 14 are exclusives.  So, that says a lot about what people want.