Sony: “We Don’t Think the Vita’s Going to Sell as Well as PSP,” Unless There’s a Pleasant Surprise

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michael_stutzer said:

KylieDog said:

Oh?  What game was that?   Because Tearaway was a short game made by a small team with an unappealing kiddy image to a lot of gamers and Killzone Mercenary was a terribly gimped Killzone game irrelevant to its universe.

Yeah, I am sure the reason why Tearaway bombed was people thinking it is made by a small team so why would they buy it. Unappealing kiddy image is also really hurt Nintendo last gen.

This. Seriously, this. As if people know or care about these things... Seriously, how can some people (I'm speaking in general) be so out of touch with reality?! People outside of v.g. forums have no idea about the size of developing teams, or which these developing teams are and i'm sure their decision to whether it's worth buying a game is not influenced by their knowledge that the developer won't supoort it with dlc (excuse I heard about some WiiU games underperforming/flopping). 

Though in all fairness, since the release of the ps3 and the vita, apart from Little Big Planet, I think Sony never managed to appeal to the kiddie audience.