Prediction! This Handheld Generation Will Be Huge, Analyst Will Eat There Words! PSV+3DS>200mil+ Easy O.o

[DanneSandin]

Slimebeast said:

Passionate fans, the passionate Sony fans who praise and hype everything that is Sony. This makes it sometimes hard for an outsider (you and me) to make an edjucated judgement wether something really has potential for success in the real world.

(Xperia Play smartphone, PS Move, Sorcery, PS All-Stars just to name a few off the top of my head)

This is such a case. The fans on forums are wild about this announcement, which might lead observers to believe that Vita TV truly has potential for success.

Now my analysis is that this device is dead in the water for a multitude of reasons.

You strip a $199 handheld from its screen and controller and all of a sudden it will be a run away success in the mass market?

Not even mighty Apple is able to sell very many Apple TV's, so why would Sony be able to?

A couple of years from now, when we look in the back mirror (if anyone bothers to) we will say that no wonder it failed when even Sony themselves didn't believe in it. Sony didn't even have the confidence to name it Sony TV but instead experimented and associated it with the Vita brand.

I gotta say, your statement makes a whole lotta sense. It's always hard to tell how well a product will do when all you hear is the ravings of the fan boys.

It'll be very interesting to see how well this does. I'm willing to bet though, that the game attachment rate for Vita (TV) will be atrocious. Why would people wanna play handheld games (that tries to mimic home console games) on the TV when you've got Xbox360 and PS3 (and soon to be released X1 and PS4)?Like I said somewhere else, this is a poor man's console - for those that can't afford a "real" home console and "real" home console games.