| bonzobanana said: PS2 reveal did a lot to damage Sega Dreamcast. My point was about a AMD zen architecture portable announcemnt damaging Switch launch numbers but also a repackaged Vita along the lines of Switch as an option that could damage Switch sales purely on the basis that it would be a Vita phone which is more portable. So less powerful home console when docked but more convenient portable device. You take your phone to work/school etc you get home and place it in the dock and can run all the same apps, games, media with TV output. It's if anything better than Switch in concept. One device for all and streams ps4 content which can be in another room. I think its a good concept. When docked it also charges up the phone for the next day of use and being lower powered one charge lasts all day. Vita games aren't bad. If the Switch concept proves successful its a good parallel concept for Sony to cash in on but with a weaker phone rather than a tablet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J7X7QRyiWg
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Except what defeats your whole argument is that PS2 was an actual platform that would come out not what you suggested earliar of a made up announcement to cancel later on. AMD have nothing in the portable market that compares to Tegra that's a dead give away right there an announcement like that would only strengthen the Switch, Nvidia right now are really the only ones who offer not only what is in the switch but what can compete with it as a hybrid device.
You don't go to work and School to play Skyrim and so on, this is a common argument that is flawed because those envirionments generally have never favoured any dedicated gaming device, Vita has been long buried by the 3DS so what really makes you think repackaging it will help it fair against the Switch? Sony already have gaming phones and such as well they've all flopped plus they would be in competition with iPhones etc... as well going that route and not only that Sony have struggled to support two devices in the same way Nintendo did only Sony gave up on Vita in the second year, to do what you're saying they'd have to start dividing their resources again.
Finally what's your point on Vita games? Wii U has games as well so? The games on the platforms didn't change the situation at all so saying Vita has games and linking a countdown does nothing to change the fact that as a product it's outmatched to the point Sony left it to die, only thing right now that would damage Switch's launch is pricing because straight up between 3DS and Wii U the are 75m potential customers and it wouldn't be hard for 2m of that userbase to give Switch a good launch especially as early adopters as even Wii U sold 2m in the first few months. Only announcement that dictates how well the launch goes would be the pricing.
