Sony Explains why PSV has come up short

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Mnementh said:

Anyways, even with getting after the markets of DS and PSP, the 3DS will not sell as much as the DS it seems. That shows a contraction of the market.

I love how people just jump to the conclusion that the market is decreasing, totally ignoring one massively important fact.

 

DS was hacked, 3DS is not. For DS you just had to buy an Acekart for 15-20 Euro, a memory card and you were set - you could play every single DS game for free! I'd never buy my DS if it wasn't for that. DS games were (and 3DS are today as well) unavailable in my country and I also found them way overpriced. I've just purchased GTA: Chinatown Wars to support R*.

This factor has a significant impact on the hardware sales and let's not ignore it.

 

What Sony should do now is release big games, but it has to develop them in a smart way. Make another Killzone soon using the ported engine and re-using some of the assets. Make a different game on this engine. Guerilla Games is working on a new IP - tell GG Cambridge, to make a spin-off on this ported engine. Port other engines so that you can make spin-off games on the cheap. Just re-use assets, but make exclusive titles. They should convince Rockstar to just port the engine and copy the city of GTA5, write a new plot and release the game. Just make games with big titles, at low costs. PhyreEngine has been ported and used in numerous games on Vita - make a spin-off of Daemon's Souls using the assets from the original game. Just go low-cost, high-effect. That's the only way for Sony to move more hardware. They can't hope for games to sell millions of copies, so they have to make them smartly, so that they don't lose (a lot of) money when they only sell 400k in the first 2-3 months.

I'd also love it if they took a chance with a few gaming outcasts. Get people like the crazy founder of Silicone Knights to make a game for Vita. Even the spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness that he couldn't get financed on Kickstarter - even Sony could afford it. Talk to Adrian Chmielarz - the founder of People Can Fly (resposible for Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgement), who left Epic and is struggling to finish his newest project, which looks quite interesting (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter). I'm sure there are other incredibly talented developers who are left out of the mainstream and would appreciate a helping hand. They need to do some stuff out of the left field to make the console more attractive.