| Kasz216 said: 1) It should be simple. The legs existed because the series got popular. Therefore you wouldn't expect the same legs while it's already popular. 2) Some launch games are like that, not all of them. They all have the same fete. 3) If that's just your arguement... then you've walked yourself right back into the circle. Since, once again, Vita's software situation now, isn't really different from the initial PSP situation... yet it's performing worse. You keep argueing yourself into this loop. You are argueing that Vita is doing worse the PSP because it didn't get Monster hunter and other games like it... when PSP didn't get Monster Hunter and other games like it during the same time period. Removal of something that didn't exist at the time of the PSP can't of hurt the Vita. |
1. Not sure why you think that. Call of Duty is a series that is currently declining from its peak. Its most recent game has lifetime sales of about twice its opening week. Decent legs, but it isn't getting more popular. How can that be? Well, it's simply that not everyone buys their games at launch for full price.
2. All? Come now. How many would you like me to name to prove you wrong? One of Sony's main franchises this generation was new IP introduced at launch, and the first Resistance sold far more with far better legs than either of the other two.
3. The initial sales of the PSP were mostly due to brand enthusiasm for the Playstation that is no longer there. For a while it was simply the hottest thing to have. Lots of people bought it simply for the promise and cool factor of a Playstation in your hand. After that wore off, the PSP started to tank but was saved by a beautiful angel named Monster Hunter... and the fact that, much like the PS3, publishers were already too invested in the system tech wise to completely drop it. This is when it recovered in Japan, all on the back of software.
So hardware sales like the early days of the PSP wasn't really possible, but the active, software buying audience of the PSP's later life was. The strange thing is that those software buying people want software that they want to buy, and the Vita doesn't have that. Oops.
