PlayStation Vita Came "Too Late," Former Sony Exec Says

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zorg1000 said:

thismeintiel said:

Has it, though? The 3DS started out poor for the followup to the biggest handheld ever. It was selling so poorly, Nintendo had to do a permanent fire sale and drop its price by $80 dollars. Then it did well for a couple of years, but is now back to where it started, with only a few bumps here or there. It won't even pass 80M, maybe not even 70M. Something that even the GBA was able to do, even with the highly popular DS launching only 3 years after it. The dedicated handheld market is dying, there's no other way to look at it. Even Nintendo knows this, hence the hybrid NX.

i think the key word is FINE, he didnt say 3DS has sold amazing/great/spectacular, just fine.

True, but he is also implying that the Vita could have done equally "fine," which I disagree with.  In a dying handheld market, there really is little room for 2 strong competitors.  3DS had the advantage of launching first AND Nintendo willing to lose money on the console by dropping it by $80 months before the Vita came out.  Had Nintendo not done that, they probably would have both ended up selling poorly.  In the end, Tretton is right.  Sure, there were things Sony could have done to have sales a little higher, but it wouldn't have really mattered because gamers are moving on from handhelds en masse.