| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: It doesn't because it implies that people prefer the games on the 3ds over the games on the vita, thats it, it doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the games. And heres the thing... Exclusives = Reasons to get the device... A lack of exclusives = A lack of Reasons to get the device hence why the Vita is selling so low that even the wiiU is on track to pass it by either this year or 2015. All vita is, is a handheld with hardly any exclusives and a lot of multiplatform games with a sub-par gaming experience. Games like Borderlands 2, Cod and etc suffer from largely downgraded Graphics and frame rate issues as well as Ai due to the lack-luster hardware compared to the ps3/ps4 hence why those ports don't really work, so theres that too. And not to mention, the freakishly expensive memory cards in which, since Sony is trying to push digital, continues to be one of the big downsides of the Vita. You paid $200 + $40 for 16gb Memory card and you are essentially left with a handheld that lost virtually all support from its parent company in the west, sub-par multi-platform releases, virtually zero backwards compatiblity, and the only games its getting now a days are from the bottom of the barrel/niche games (which aren't all bad but compared to 3ds, its virtually no competition for most) so yes, worst gaming handheld in recent memory |
Well, "bottom of the barrel" is interesting, given in 2014, the Vita lineup was more critically acclaimed than the 3DS' despite it's parent company practically abandoning it. If bottom of the barrel and niche delivers Danganronpa, Demon Gaze,
Minecraft and a port of FIFA 11 (in 2012) are the 2 biggest UK debuts for Vita. Exclusives are reasons to get the device, yet the 8th gen home console with arguable the lowest quality exclusive lineup is significantly outselling the competition.
Wii U has been on track to pass the Vita every year since it launched (you do realised it launched in the same year in the West right so they have had as many "holiday seasons"?), I'm amazed given that high quality exclusives (and yes, they are fantastic I love my Wii U software) are reported "all" it takes to sell a console, it still hasn't passed it given it's pretty much accepted despite the absolutely stunning first year lineup, Vita was dead on arrival. (Exclusive Uncharted, Wipeout, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty (it was shit, but still sold over a million, crazy!), Resistance, the definitive Little Big Planet, Silent Hill, along with very impressive handheld versions of FIFA, Need for Speed, Sonic & Allstars Racing Transformed, Rayman Origins and the likes all in the first 12 months)
There's a lot of "expert" rhetoric on here as to why X is doing one thing and Y is doing another, yet if you analyse any of these hypothesis at all, there are far too many examples that completely disprove that for it to hold any water.
I mean, it bombed because it didn't have enough AAA (actually it had shedloads in the first year), then it was people want games suitable to portable experiences, while championing a cut down port of Smash Bros and a port of Xenoblade Chronicles (which is exclusive to people who buy a slightly upgraded 3DS) and loving Resident Evil: Revelations. It was too expensive with proprietary memory cards, yet then when it's far cheaper than a 3DS (and region free, and includes a power supply, and has a proper account system) it still doesn't sell.
Most "experts" of Vita's failure have never even actually had any decent experience with the system. They don't want one because it has no games, but then they express joy when these games they don't want on it are announced as being ported to PS3/PS4 because it means they no longer need to buy a Vita.
I think the reason for the Vita's failure is actually pretty straight forward, it's also eaten a significant chunk out of Nintendo's market though people seem to be trying to bury their heads in the sand over that. It's just that mobile phones and tablets, have taken away even more of the appeal the PSP had, than the DS because the DS was never really a big portable media product.
I just really hope that Nintendo's successor to the 3DS is actually a decent bit of kit because it probably will be the last dedicated portable gaming system.
Anyway, he's absolutely right, the Vita annihilates the 3DS in every single damn way possible. Apart from Pokemon and sales. Though the sales mainly came from inferior (exclusive) versions of home console games (the things that don't sell Vita), Monster Hunter, and Pokemon.
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