| Captain_Yuri said:
Or they bought those devices cause they had a bundle/pricecut that went into my impluse buy range or the purchasers bought it regardless of its price since they thought the value was good enough... But that doesn't mean it couldn't have stayed at a higher number than the gba era in the post DS/PSP era. One of the main reasons it didn't is because of smartphones being a thing. The argument of emulation being the main selling factor of PSP and taking that away means its normal to have the Vita sell 15 million is nothing more than speculation. The casuals for the most part went to smartphones after the PSP/DS and they are continuing to do so hence the sales of the Vita being so low. I doubt 60+ million people bought a PSP just for piracy. |
Again your argument holds no ground because for the hundreth time you are aruging perception of the form factor so under your very own argument a mini-pc would be percieved as a console, the's no one rule for one here either you stick to this logic or admit its flaw, form facotr doesn't define how something is seen. Many devices utilize the form factors of other devices for a number of reasons and the general public knows this.
Your argument is that the price point is not in impulse range not about bundles again moving goal posts, PSP and Wii didn't have price cuts early on so you must be thinking of something else there.
It's going to finish at a higher number than the GBA era, it'd have pass it by the end of this year, PSP's emulation is not speculation the facts speak for themself. PSP had dreadful software sales for its library, literally it was like no one was buying games for it which is why third parties ditched it and all portable focus went to the DS, this was because almost anyone who had it used homebrew, the were tonnes of ebay listings selling homebrew discs with roms and PSP games and the problem became rampant. This is why Vita went with a propriety memory storage, even before Vita Sony tried introducing a PSP model that dropped mem sticks but it bombed hard, Sony fixed the problem but the problem was what sold the PSP in the west.
The casuals are still here always have been always will be how are you even arguing if you can't tell the difference between a casual, a non gamer and a new gamer, casuals are just gamers who don't buy games as often but they'll snap up the Fifas and the Marios, non gamers and new gamers were the people who caused the huge sales. Non gamers are the ones who left while some new gamers are around and casuals most likely have a 3DS
