Sony slashes full-year profit forecast by 40%

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GamechaserBE said:
They should discontinue the Vita, it is draining their gaming devision. Without it they would have made a profit in gaming division and that would have mean more games for PS3/PS4... Yeah the Vita is a mistake...

totally agree with this +10

Look at the vita tie ratio, add digital sales, and tell me again that is a mistake.

You really trying to argue that the Vita wasn't a mistake?

I wouldnt say its a mistake In concept, PSP sold 80m and made millions so it would have been dumb not to make a successor. With that said I do believe they made some mistakes in execution.

1. Price-even tho its a good value for the tech offered, $250-300 is out of most peoples price range when it comes to handheld gaming. $199 is the price they should have tried for even if it meant cutting back on the specs/tech. Also memory card prices are too high as well.

2. Games-Vita hasnt gotten alot of support from first parties while PS3 hasnt gotten excellent support, maybe even too good of support. This year alone PS3 has gotten God of War/Sly Cooper/Last of Us/Beyond/Puppeteer/Into the Nexus/Gran Turismo. That is excessive for a console that has a successor coming this year and a struggling sibling. GoW/GT should have been Vita titles and Sly/Ratchet/Puppeteer should have been on both. As for third parties, most games seem to be late ports or available on consoles with exponentially bigger install bases and those arent really the type of games that push hardware.

Its been almost 2 years since release so maybe its too late to make a drastic turnaround but if Vita launched at $199 with a steady stream of high quality software then I feel it would be doing much better. It really needs the type of games that made PSP sell so well like Grand Theft Auto, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, God of War, Gran Turismo and others.