| nanzano said: Every time I try an awesome a vita game (like I did with Star Nova today) I always almost have tears in my eyes asking my self " why is the vita not the best selling gaming device of this gen!" |
Well, I think that, after all, wa can agree that the reason of the poor selling Vita and her games is the migration of "casual consumers" from handhelds to smartphones.
We can mock casuals for being ignorant, insensible to good gameplay and in love with silly games like Ruzzle, and yet they outnumber hard core gamers and anything in between by a 10:1 ratio at least... And for them, Nova, Gravity Rush, Uncharted and Freedom Wars mean very little, while quickness, cheap price, convenience of a twenty minute distraction are important, along with brand, coolness, trends...
Even Nintendo, with thirty years of experience and properties like Mario and Pokemon are feeling the punch.
As for Sony, their marketing errors (and there were a lot of them) perfected the disaster.
Sometimes casuals focus on a product they and the media decide it's cool (Wii, PSP, ...) and then, as the next product comes, they are gone somewhere else.
