PlayStation Asia forwards quote claiming the "Vita is dead"

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jason1637 said:

IamAwsome said:
That tweet won't be up by next week.

It was posted on facebook.

I mean, technically he's correct then. 

 

Nuvendil said:

AbbathTheGrim said:

Nuvendil said:

Calling this an admission that the Vita is dead is like calling a death certificate an admission that a piece of roadkill is dead. It might make it all official sounding but the fact it's dead and even the cause are self evident. I've personally always found it funny that Sony entered the Handheld market. Nintendo had already given wedgies to numerous other competitors before.

I don't know, one generation Sony could strike gold and have circusmtances conspire in their favor and finally sell better than a Nintendo handheld. Look at Nintendo for example, they got that one chance to top Sony, at least for once, in what has been a complete and continious dominance of PlayStation consoles over Nintendo's.

Never give up!

The difference is Nintendo has the arsenal to combat Sony and has from the start.  They just keep falling on their face for no good reason other than someone keeps tying their shoe laces together when they aren't looking before each gen's race starts.  Sony, on the other hand has no and hasn't had any exclusive franchises to contend with Nintendo's exclusive offerings on handhelds and long experience constructing handheld experiences.  Sony got lucky to do as well as they did with the PSP.  It would take an absurdly, extraordinarily stupid screw up from Nintendo to make the contest even interesting.

 

You're grossly misunderstanding the point of the Sony handheld line if you think they were ever trying to compete with Nintendo. Sony went in invincible, having completely wrecked the entire scene with both the PS1 and 2 up to that point, so logically they could just waltz in and slam the handheld market too. Nintendo's key focus of handhelds until this gen was simple experiences that appealed to kids or were good for car rides and such. Sony's goal has always been to produce a portable console for the core market, and that's why the Vita was destined to fail. 

 

The PSP could survive and even succeed with that mentality because PS2 games weren't too expensive to produce. But the Vita was designed and advertised as a portable PS3. However it was never made strong enough to actually be one unless a developer put in way too much money, so when "SORT of PS3 game-ish" came out, no core gamer really wanted it because it's not impressive enough. Then the game bombs, and the prospective budget for future Vita games goes down because, again, the developers wanna make a profit. When the intro cost is already multiple times as high as a 3DS game, it's incredibly tough to sell a dev on the Vita. And with no games worth buying a Vita for outside of a handful of first party titles which STILL aren't technically impressive enough to fulfill the marketing promise the Vita made at launch, nobody bought in. And because the install base is low, third parties back off, and the cycle continues. Sony knew within a year that the Vita would become a PS4 peripheral because they grossly underestimated the market for a "console-tier" handheld in the modern era of superinflated budgets.