This was a strange, strange post. To address it point by point:
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forevercloud3000 said: People keep trying to compare Vita with it's Home Console counterparts but it is a HANDHELD. The fact that some of its games are also on PS3/4 means little because you can't play those without impunity anywhere like on Vita. If you think you will enjoy it more on PS3/4, get it on that but you could also choose to have the freedom of portability. |
At this point in time, I think Vita has been a shining example of how the vast, vast majority of the market don't care about "but you can play it anywhere on a handheld!" Phones & tablets satisfy the need for adult gamers to play on the go. Phones; tablets & 3DS' satisfy the need for younger games to play on the go. The fact that Sony have increasingly targeted the latter as time goes on (i.e. last year's "summer" advertising campaign; putting money into stuff like PS Vita Pets this year) shows that they recognise that market is all that's left for them at this point. If they can get a few western otaku's and cross-buy-indie-game fans on board too, then that's great, but they can't be a particularly sustainable or large market.
| forevercloud3000 said: Also Vita is the last console that can be criticized about variety. Killzone Mercs, Borderlands 2, MLB 14:The Show, MGS Collection, Sly Collection, Jak Collection, God of War Collections, AC: Liberations, LBP Vita, Unit 13, PSASBR, Super Stardust Delta, Tearaway are western themed games. They aren't Japanese style at all. How many games in that vein does 3DS have? two(MGS 3D, Resident Evil Revelations)? All of it's most reveled games are Japanese at their core(Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Yoshi, Zelda, Mario, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, Mario Kart). |
Nintendo's franchises have universal appeal. You don't look at something like Mario or Zelda and think "this is a real Japanese-culture title". But certainly with a lot of the Vita stuff we've been getting - from Conception to to Deception to Demon Gaze to Freedom Wars, there is a massive eastern influence. Primarily, because these games were designed to sell in Japan first and the rest of the world second. I can't think of a single Japanese-developed Sony IP that isn't focused on the Japanese market first, save for Gran Turismo. Conversely, Nintendo's games sell well in the Japanese market and have big overseas appeal to either children or long-time fans of the franchises.
There's nothing wrong with people disliking strongly-Japanese influenced games. Heck, the first time I played Yakuza I found it very hard to adjust to how differently the game world felt to me - it was on the borderline of being completely alien.
Also, your list of western games kinda highlights how sad things are for the Vita at the moment. And don't get me wrong - I am one of the small minority that actually loves that Vita is getting all these HD Collections of games I adored on PS2. But like I said, people like me are a tiny minority. For most people, that will be a list of games which they played on the PS2 or PS3 or would prefer to play on the PS2 or PS3. Which comes back to my first point of "but it's a handheld!" not being a selling point for many. When you're selling your console on the strengths of Killzone; Unit 13; LittleBigPlanet & Tearaway then there's a problem, no matter how good the games might actually be.
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forevercloud3000 said: Zelda = Y's:Memories of Celceta |
I find there to be some baffling comparisons in here. FFX & Persona 4 are both mostly traditional JRPG's with turn-based battle systems, yet one is comparable to a first person dungeon crawler and the other is comparable to a SRPG? Kid Icarus, a third person rail shooter gets compared to Gravity Rush, an open world action-adventure game?
As for the rest of them, again, for the vast majority of the market they would see a list like this and think that Vita is just getting inferior versions of games they could play on the 3DS. Why buy a Vita to play Modnation when you can get the superior Mario Kart on 3DS? In some cases it's unfair - Ys deserves much more recognition than it gets and I genuinely think it's better than Zelda for my own personal tastes, but that's just how the market goes.
You should all know how much I love Vita but I don't think making yourself feel better about the situation by drawing odd comparisons and making the console seem like it's getting better support than it's getting is making the situation any better. If all your points were true and Sony's IP's could go toe-to-toe with Nintendo's; and it had a vast library of quality western titles, then why is it selling so badly in America? Yes, advertising, but even lack of advertising doesn't excuse 10k in a whole month.
