How Vita could have been saved in 2013

[naruball]

nitekrawler1285 said:

naruball said:

I don't understand how you can completely disregard all the positives and focus on all the negatives. The positives are many. As I said, LBP, Uncharted and Killzone were 3 out of their 5 most successful IPs.

It's like complaining to your wife that she doesn't show an effort by listing all the things that she didn't do that you wanted her to do and not paying any attention to all that she has actually done. Saying that Sony didn't try is, in my opinion, by all means wrong and an exaggeration. What they should have done is more, just like you said. They didn't, which makes their efforts subpar/inadequate, not non existant.  

I praise those games and purchased every last one of them. When those positives don't come up to even 20% of my expectations of content I would get from 1st party I'll ignore them entirely or if they were my husband divorce them.  In that case they are insignificant enough for me to call their effort non existant.  This is the internet. 

If Nintendo made a handheld and didn't put Pokemon and Mario and mario kart on it people would say they didn't even try. That is a valid statement even if it's not 100% literal.  

 

Which proves my point that it's an exaggeration. Languages give us a range of words to acurately describe certain things. "no" effort is thus wrong. Also, Pokemon and Mario are bad comparisons. Pokemon has always sold by far the best on handhelds (so your comparison would be better if you were talking about wiiu) and there have been multiple Mario games on every ninty handheld to date. 

I will end this here. Sony tried, but not enough and did not make the right decisions on several matters. Whether people's expectations were unrealistic or they lack the ability to appreciate what they can get is a different matter.