| NewGuy said:
Vita seems to have stabilized in the 18-23K range. I feel like the PSV is on the verge of taking off in Japan, but it needs one or two exclusive big/huge titles to help push it over the hump. Its biggest title is a cross gen game in GE2. Sony should work hard on getting some exclusive SW for it. There's not a whole lot they can do for it from a 1st party perspective (GT6 port, Dark Cloud, LoD, new IP), but from moneyhatting, they could try and get MHP5, FFType1, KHBBS2, and DQM3/DQJ3 exclusively. Along with ports of DQX, FFXI or FFXIV, etc... For the SE titles, they could HD port FFType0, KH BBS, and HD remakes of DQM1+2 and DQJ1+2. Not saying it'd be easy, it would require a lot of work and effort from Sony to make this happen and Nintendo seems to have an ironclad grip on the biggest 3rd party games in Japan, DQ (as well as mainline MH games now). Sony would have to work extra hard and put lots of money on the table to make it happen. I'm not saying it would surpass the 3DS LTD, that's actually pretty much impossible to happen at this point, but that it would pass the Saturn (6 million) and possibly the PS3 and Wii. |
Freedom Wars should help the situation quite a bit. I really think they will actually advertise the game well there.
In regards to Japan I don't think SE will ever give Vita exclusivity priority over mobile. Because many of their mobile games use Unity we can at least tweet Gio Corsi and work on getting ports and thus parity with the platform. Things like Dues Ex: The Fall, Hitman Go(More help in EU/US), The World Ends With You: Solo Remix, DQ ports(for Japan) could take as little as a few weeks(Sony should go as far as getting team to do it). Those shouldn't require much effort from Sony or SE at all. If those cheap experiments are financially viable it could lead into Sony getting them into parity with mobile and thus significantly bolster Vita's lineup overall in short time. Then we might be able to see some stuff like Type-0 and KHBBS localized.
