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| Intrinsic said: Why is discontinuing the vita a bad move? If anything I think it was a bad move to even make the vita to begin with. I see no reason why they should keep making hardware that is making them bleed out money. Get rid of it and pour everything on the playstation side into PS4 success. If I were sony, I would get rid of the vita then focus heavily on PS4, mobile phones and tablets. No point supporting hardware that is failing as hard as the vita....the dedicated handheld market just isn't big enough for two major players. |
Why was it a bad move to release a successor to the PSP? Sony got over one third of the handheld market (hardware and software each) at their first try... SEGA or any other handheld competitor of Nintendo would have killed for that share at their time. And no market is too small for two competitors.
Perhaps their Vita investment doesn't pay out in the end... but not even trying and leaving the handheld sector only because it is shrinking and has new competition from other mobile devices? And perhaps the Vita investment does pay out in the end, even if they sell much less than their competitor. Most Vita-owners love the system and the Vita probably doesn't "make them bleed money". The production costs of the Vita hardware should have gone down quite a bit the last two years... the SoC and the touchscreen display have many similarities with hundreds of millions iPhones and Android smartphones, the costs of these components should have fallen dramatically. The change from OLED to LCD should have reduced costs even further. The memory cards should be highly profitable and there is no third party alternative of Trancend or Sandisk yet.
