Fewer Games is Never a Good Thing

[zorg1000]

oniyide said:

zorg1000 said:

I think PSP showed there is a strong potential market for console experiences on the go.

Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club, Gran Turismo, God of War, Star Wars Battlefront/Force Unleashed, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Need for Speed, Metal Gear Solid, Kingdom Hearts, FIFA, Madden, etc. were all pretty successful on PSP.

I hope Skyrim, FIFA & NBA 2K sell well on Switch and show once again that there is a market for console style games on the go. Switch seems to be getting a solid lineup of Japanese, indie & kid/family software, if it can get PSP level of western support than that would give it a really well rounded software library.

PSP was years ago. Clearly in the recent years people lost interest in those types of games on the go. If they still cared Vita would have done much better and to a lesser extent 3DS woudl have too.

Im gonna go out on a limb and say those games will not do to hot, I wanna be wrong, but nothing recently has shown be I am.

Not really, neither Vita nor 3DS had much support from western console-style games, at least not nearly at the level that PSP had.

Vita sales don't support your argument because Vita missed out on a ton of franchises that made PSP successful. Grand Theft Auto was the biggest franchise on PSP in the West and Monster Hunter was the biggest in Japan and Vita recieved neither of them. Other big games on PSP that skipped Vita were Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, God of War, Star Wars, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy.

That's the equivalent of a Nintendo platform not having Pokemon, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, Super Mario & Zelda.

Some of these console experiences on Vita did alright, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Need for Speed but their impact was always going to be limited without the other big games to support them.