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naruball on 20 May 2014
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Soonerman said:
naruball said:

Your statement would make more sense if Sony/their playstation division was spending equal resources to vita. They aren't. There's no way you can argue that the vita is the other half. It's more like a 12th, if not less.

Howmuch money have they spent on ps4 advertising compared to advertising for psvita? How many games have their studios made and how many timed exclusives have they paid for? Your comparison with Ninty is invalid. Ninty's strength is a handheld and we know that handhelds are not popular any more and their popularity will most likely fall even even further in the next generation. The ps4 hasn't reached it's peak yet, while the 3ds has. Most importantly, Ninty is spending tons of money making games for wiiu, some of which have flopped, unlike Sony whose first party studios are spending close to zero resources on psvita projects.

They have let psvita die recently, so they are neither making nor losing money from it.

Why do people keep making this same excuse? As far as I can remember, Sony spent a shit lot of resources on advertising for the Vita when it originally came out. In fact, if I remember correct at some point it was even on par with 3DS on weekly sales. But when the 3DS took off (after price drops) that's when Sony stop using its resources on the Vita. So to claim that Sony has not put money on the Vita it's just a lie. They did their part, they noticed it wasn't working and they gave up on it. And yet, they still keep providing support by making t part of the PS4 to enhance games. The system failed because people just didn't want it due to ridiculous things such as the extremely high priced flash cards.

Read my last sentence again. I'm referring to its current condition. You can't call it half the playstation division at the moment. while you can with wiiu considering the attention and resources it is receiving by Ninty. In the past the vita was selling ok, so it was treated as at least  a 4th of the division (still not 1/2, since never did a psvita game have the budget of games like Beyond, The Last of us, GT5/6, Second Son etc). It was never the other half of the division, but now it's nowhere near that. That was also evident at every E3 where the ps3/4 would get much more time. Calling the vita a half of the division is the real lie here.