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oniyide on 06 August 2016
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zorg1000 said:
oniyide said:
What i dont understand is some people here saying how cool it is that the portable will be so powerful, why didnt some of these same people care when PSV and P came out? Hell if we are being honest history has shown that powerful dedicated portable game systems dont exactly fly off the shelves so I dont see your regular consumer caring that much.

Power is a cool feature but it alone does not sell a device. Besides, PSP sold over 80 million, so kinda hard to say people didnt care about it.

As for Vita, it didnt fail because people dont like powerful handhelds. Take a look at the top 20 PSP games, most of those franchises didnt release on Vita.

Vita did not recieve Grand Theft Auto, Monster Hunter, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, God of War, Midnight Club, etc. Power doesnt mean much if the device doesnt have compelling software.

Also another big reason PSP sold so well was because it was pretty much the only legitimate mobile multimedia devices during its prime. By the time Vita released smartphones & tablets had become the go to mobile multimedia devices making that not such a strong selling point for Vita as it was for PSP.

True but it still sold a lot less than DS. My point is that power doesnt gaurantee sales especially if there is cheaper on the market that is good enough. Hell this is the first gen we've had where the most powerful system is on top (PS4)