PS Vita no longer available at major retailers!

[novasonic]

McDonaldsGuy said:

novasonic said:

Yeah, but the Virtual Boy and Vita are two very different things.

The Virtual Boy was an experiemental 3rd pillar. The technology was terrible and it ruined peoples eyes. Nintendo dropped it and gave the middle finger to 700k people.

The Vita is the official succesor to the PSP, and it is a sexy ass piece of technology. Sony is giving the middle finger to 8.5 million people.

Those 8.5 million people aren't buying any games anyway. Vita games are selling terribly. Like you said, it's a "sexy ass piece of technology," but without the software, it's useless. It's like saying having the best paints in the world will make you a great painter. The Vita made the EXACT same mistakes the PSP did, but when the PSP came out the PlayStation brand was so high it sold like crazy anyway. The Vita did not have this luxury.

8.5 million and barely growing isn't a lot, really. Plus, a lot of those sales are from Japan, so if Sony does want to continue with the Vita it only kinda makes sense in Japan. But in America and Europe the thing is dead.

They still shouldn't drop it. They have to show their potential customers that they'll support their consoles even when they aren't printing money. If they drop the Vita, there will never be another successful portable Playstation and it will take a toll on their home console sales too. There will be 8.5 million people that will think twice before they buy a PS4 or 5.