| the-pi-guy said: A lot of people blame mobile competition, but I think that's a very small reason. Sony themselves have blamed mobile competition. If you look at the 3DS, when it started out it wasn't doing very well. 250$ and at the time, it only had a couple of major titles. It was just difficult for a lot of people to justify spending so much money when only a few games were quite widespread. A price cut and a few more major titles and the 3DS is doing much better, it won't do better than the DS. The DS was a big success for quite a few reasons I think. It launched at $149, at that price a few games is pretty easy to justify spending that money. And maybe just maybe, it got some help by the Wii and also helped that the DS was something new itself. I'm not sure how much Sony really realizes about the Vita. They seem content with blaming mobile. The competition is too great to justify spending much money to support the Vita, is what they think. I think the reality is that it is hard to justify buying a Vita for the vast majority of people. It's spent much of it's life at 249$ and now 199$ which is great for some, but for most it is far more than they can justify spending on the library. That does include a small memory card, so it's not all bad. The problem with the library is that there is little that is appealing to most people. Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, LittleBigPlanet, Persona 4, Minecraft, Need for Speed, Final Fantasy X, Killzone and Tearaway are the 10 biggest games on the system. Uncharted is great, but most people prefer it on a big screen (and made by Naughty Dog). Assassin's Creed (70 metacritic) Call of Duty was poorly made. (33 metacritic) LBP, is probably dying. Persona 4 is always a poor seller. Minecraft has already sold millions upon millions of copies. Some of these would likely do much much better if there was a big push for marketing. What I would do if I was Sony would be to pricecut the Vita down to 149$ or cheaper. Release a Gran Turismo game and bundle it with the Vita with a pretty big marketing push. Release a Grand Theft Auto game exclusive for Vita with a bundle and marketing push. Do the same with a good Call of Duty game. |
I agree with this 100% and is what i've been saying I feel like Sony should do or at least have done before they stopped supporting the Vita.
I mean, there's a new color coming out in November. Why not bundle that with a big new Vita game and actually market it a bit?
Like I said, maybe these things wouldn't have "saved" the Vita but it would at least be in a much better position than it is right now if it had these things.
