Mnementh on 12 February 2014
gigantor21 said:
Oh, fuck off with that bullshit, Sony. Your efforts to bolster the Vita's lineup with "bespoke games" has been sorely lacking. Games like Tearaway and Killzone--big-name titles being helmed by your major studios--are far too rare for the system to stand on it's own. There are still yawning gaps in franchise representation for the system, with no Infamous, no Gran Turismo, no new news on the Gravity Rush sequel and no news at all on a sequel to Golden Abyss. I can name maybe 3 retail releases I want for the system this year, and two of them (FFXHD and DW8) are late ports. There's no way I can take their claims seriously after seeing what Nintendo has been doing to support the 3DS. And what has been your focus instead? Punching up remote play as a major seller? Right, because spending $200 on a dying handheld and $50 a year for PSNow--which will only work decently on a fast wi-fi connection, if at all--will have the Vita flying off shelves, right? And we all know streaming stuff at home has made the WiiU a major seller right? Meanwhile, their push to promote indie titles (many of which are multiplatform) and PS+ requires dealing with the train robbery prices on their custom memory cards. If they're so big on pushing the Vita's unique titles, why the fuck do they make it so expensive to simply get enough storage for them? I'm sorry, but as a Vita owner, I'm getting sick of their wishy-washy bullshit. Instead of either shelving it or going all out to support it, it's being left adrift in this weird, irrelevant limbo. They can say whatever they want, but they've shown themselves more than willing to leave the device on life support in practice.
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I agree that is shit for Vita-owners - but it is economically reasonable. They don't want to damage consumer-trust by killing the device early, so they keep it on life-support. But they can't afford to bleed money into producing games, that will sell bad. I see the same happening for WiiU. Nintendo will release the already announced games, but at least 2015 it will be only a few games and mostly smaller titles. Just enough to keep the system alive. But not investing too much into games, that will sell badly. Both companies have platforms they can make money with: Sony with the PS4, Nintendo with the 3DS. I think this shit will go on for both systems.