Why does everyone say the VITA failed when...

[MikeRox]

Metrium said:

According to VGChartz numbers, Vita with 14.3mil units sold, sold 61.7mil software.
WiiU with 13.3mil units sold, sold 81.5mil software.

WiiU, with 1mill less instalbase sold 20mil more software. And since software is what really brings money to a compagny and not hardware, WiiU less of a failure than Vita.

Despite both being failures, WiiU has been more relevant and had successes software wise.

 

Also three other things to consider.

 

• -Vita has a 1year headstart on the market.
• -Portable consoles, that are more affordable usualy sell more than more expensive home consoles, so the fact that Vita outsold WiiU with a 1year headstart by only 1mil is really really bad.
• -Finaly WiiU has three competitors (PC,PS4,Xone) while Vita only has one.

 

 

Just throwing these out there.

Vita and Wii U pretty much launched at the same price. (in the UK at least, Vita was £229.99 on it's own. Wii U launched at £249.99 but included internal storage. So 8gb with either system was the same price. Bearing in mind people are prepared to pay more for home consoles than handhelds (as the 3DS demonstrated with it's also abysmal sales until a hefty early price drop) I wouldn't really say Vita had an advantage on price.

Vita has loads of competitors while Wii U only has 3 (iPhones, Androids, Tablets, 3DS etc.) ;)

Most Vita software was digital only, and we have no real tracking for that. Though anecdotally developers did tend to state that Vita digital sales were pretty strong. So I'm not going to say you're wrong on software sales. But just as VGC could well have heavily overtracked Vita in general. It could also be significantly understating software sales. Unless Sony ever confirmed anything which at this point I highly doubt, this can never be used as a fact by either Nintendo or Sony fans.

Overall, as I said earlier, clearly both systems are failures in terms of what their manufacturers expected and hoped from them. But with well over 300 games owned for it, I can't say the Vita has failed me personally.