brendude13 said:
This. I really don't understand why Sony haven't just funded a huge exclusive like this yet. Surely the benefits are far greater than the costs? Nintendo seem to have no problem doing it with Platinum on the WiiU, and their games aren't doing great at all. |
Because Sony doesn't shit money. I'm 99% sure that the benefits of funding a huge western 3rd party exclusive for Vita would be far smaller than the costs. I don't know if you have heard of the growth-share matrix but if you want to put in terms of that chart, then the Vita is a dog (at least in the west), it has small market share and the market for dedicated handheld gaming is shrinking, you don't invest in dogs, you try to get the most money out of them and then get the fuck out. If Sony wants to invest money in exclusives then they should do it for the PS4, a product that looks to have a very positive future ahead of itself, not burn it on the Vita.
Also I'm pretty sure that at the moment Nintendo has yet to benefit financially from their contract with Platinum Games and I'd bet that they won't with Bayonetta 2 either, still Nintendo isn't really the best example, cause a) they got alot of cash so they can afford to finance games like that and b) their decisions regarding the Wii U have not necessarily been the best up to this point anyway.
