AngryLittleAlchemist said:
But the PSP sold 80+ mil and the Vita sold 20+ mil. They both sold well for what they were. It wasn't amazing but still ... I don't know, I feel like the reasons for PS not to make another PS handheld have more to do with the current times and their place in the market than the vita specifically. |
Sony had a huge part to play in the Vita's failure, and the biggest fault is the pricing. There is lots of compelling content on the platform (granted, more low-key than the PSP, without many huge releases, though the general offering of games is of the same spirit), but the pricing just killed its ass. Memory cards, with a logical minimum of 16GB for 40€/$ (IIRC), the system itself for 200... yeah. And then there is competition in the face of the 3DS.
If the Vita saw a bigger success, say, 40 mil, I could see a successor coming - but because of a combination of market factors and Sony's own screwups, perhaps we won't get a successor ever - or, perhaps we will get one much much later.
