Fewer Games is Never a Good Thing

[oniyide]

zorg1000 said:

oniyide said:

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.

it didnt get those games because Vita didnt really sell that well from the start, If people were interested more more Vitas would habe been bought. MH moved to 3ds but that didnt exactly catapult it into big numbers, its still gonna end up selling less than DS, PSP, and GBA and 3ds got at least half those games you mentioned.