Vita outsold by Wii on BF. Sony, send us a message!

[Soundwave]

Rychussnik said:

Soundwave said:

What's SCEA supposed to?

The Sony audience doesn't give a sh*t about handhelds. They are teenage/college age males who game at home on the big screen and want a PS4 or XBox, not a Sony Game Boy.

PSP falling off the map in North America for years prior was already a tip off. Everyone has smartphones here now too so if you ever get an urge to game for 10 minutes on the road, smart phone scratch that itch. The big gun games are for consoles.

Besides I think there still is a huge stigma about playing handhelds in public. No one says anything about smartphone games because smartphones are more of a social media device. No one wants to be the weird guy on the bus "playing video games in the corner". Is it a double standard with smartphones? Sure. But it still definitely is there. mar

i've never encountered this double standard, in fact i've experienced quite the opposite. the problem with the vita is the lack of game advertisements, look at the sales of Killzone and Tearaway: two of the better games in the vita library, and they were given absolutely no marketing in NA, they were simply pushed out the door to fend for themselves. 

Try getting a teenage or college guy to play a Vita or 3DS infront of a group of girls he likes (ie: on a bus or during lunch break at school/college). Not happening. 

Looking at your smartphone though? Smartphones are "cool", playing "Game Boy" is not, it implies you're a juvenile. 

I'm not saying that's the way it should be, but really there definitely is that stigma still. At least in the USA/Canada, for sure. Probably the UK too.

Sony is running into a brick wall trying to sell handhelds to this audience, the PSP had a good first few years in the US, but it fizzled out by about mid-cycle.