Viktor said:
OneKartVita said:
The vita won't suddenly die when the NX comes out. The vita is more powerful then the 3DS but that makes no difference. The NX handheld jump over the 3DS will big but it will only put it about as far ahead of the vita as it was ahead of the 3DS. Maybe it will be around the same considering Nintendo might want a really low price.
And the 3DS proved the handhelds success isn't dependant on power so why would it being more powerful mean anything now.. If anything dev time for handheld games will become harder and take longer.
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Recently PSV is quite often even selling worse than WiiU in Japan, something that likely won´t change for the upcoming weeks this year and the gap between both this years sales will likely end up just only under 200k units in favour of PSV, despite a constant flow of games. Not exactly good prospects and definetely a weak performance unless selling close to WiiU suddenly became something to be proud of. 2016 will see even further decline to already weak sales, despite SQEX efforts/lineup, which at best will just soften a bit the blow. The decline is undeniable and seeing how the latest Atelier release sold better on PS4 than PSV we are already seeing first hints of further decay in "relevance" even in its little otaku niche. I doubt 2017 will have a comparable lineup to 2016 and the new handheld generation hype will just give it the final blow.
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The point is there are so many titles in Japan that have their fanbase on the Vita. Nintendo like always will have the major titles like yokai, pokemon, monster hunter, dragon quest etc but the vita will continue to get support from it's current supporters.
If anything the new launch helps the vita. It will be the cheapest handheld, not much weaker and will already have a large growing library.
If anything getting 2 dragon quest handheld titles and a final fantasy next year suggests it's here for the entire next gen in Japan. And those titles will push sales far more than anything that's come this year.
With ps4 now growing nicely the ps4/psv combo will remain the standard for so many devs. the combined install base will be close to 10m by the end of next year.
