I'm not sure what your first statement is trying to say, given that 3DS has all of those games. No new IPs is a legitimate complaint

lurkerwithnosoul said:
Vita will be an awesome platform for imports, but i can't really see it competing with 3DS once the big games hit the system. Games like Mario and Pokémon will push the sales further than they are.

And don't forget that Mario and Pokémon are long time sellers (just look at how well they sell). They can sell even without price-cuts. Along with them, Nintendo has a plethora of other franchises that can sell well above 3 mil.

Besides U2 and even with that one, Vita will have to find its own system seller. That alone will give it a hard time finding a way to compete with the 3DS. But there's also the consumers who will not find it as attractive as a smartphone.

Conservative can have many different meanings. In this case Sony's playing by the book that they wrote, and aggressive pricing is merely part of that book (remember that the PS3 was "aggressively priced" in that they weren't charging you the $800 it cost to make one right out of the gate)

Most of the points you mentioned are either negated by the 3DS or irrelevant to making a top-selling handheld. Sony has shown some innovative uses for the multitouch technology (that demo of Mod Nation Racers was rather impressive), and they could pursue better ends with games like that, Little Big Planet, and Little Deviants. Most of the gameplay elements Vita can produce can also be produced on 3DS, sans the multi-touch, and what you end up with again is something that's better than the 3DS on paper, but that's more or less what the PSP had going for it too. Games that can more closely emulate the console experience, objectively better online, but did any of these features make a difference in the past? Sony could very well have a lead on something if they broaden their thinking on utilizing the device's multitouch capabilities, but otherwise they're going to be in the PSP pipeline

And the whole sleeping giant thing isn't quite the proper analogy. Nintendo has gotten distracted by the lure of GameCube-type game development, something that their developers love a lot but consumers not so much, and it's more a matter of if they get back to basics again, things will change for the better, but them snapping out of their distraction could take some time. Last time they wandered down that path it took them about 12 years to get off it...

u mad bro? lol

first off "What you call "right cards" I call them "all cards""...lolwut? I mean really? that's the BEST you can come up with? if you think this all the 'cards' that will be played in a gen you are being naive. it takes way more than this to do well in a console generation, I would've expected you to know that, too bad really.

again with this 'balance' >_> this is getting embrassing...what is this balance nonsense really? they need to balance they shortcomings with positives or something? it has nothing to do with the term balance...its just shortcomings. it won't 'balance' things out. really, I wonder how you guys even come up with these terms :S balance...

and hold your senstive horse there buddy..attacking? :P internet is not that serious ya know. actually it can be but FC? LOLNO! not a topic I will bother attacking. and if you fail to see how FC in this day and age is trailing behind ps/xbl...i have nothing more to say to you. as long as you're happy I guess.

battery? psv will be around the same as psp. not a downgrade compared to last gen and considering the monster is packing what it does, that's outright awesome. and it will get better too..cuz you see sony can improve on these things to just like ninty can 0_0 OMG! what an idea right?

acting liek vita dominate? >_> do you actually read what I type or just see somethign negative about ninty and go bonkers? you do realize I have literally mention that I don't think psv will outsell 3ds around 4-5 times in this thread alone already? and you go on a rant about how things change etc etc but you do realize this applies to 'everyone'...and this is something I have been saying for a looooooooooooong time here in the forums. things change, I doubt sony will surpass ninty in the handheld arena this gen but boy are they trying or what. Give cred where cred is due...and don't worry knowing sony they will manage to ef something up sooner or later lol :P

Ok, think what you think. I'm speaking of sales in the only sales site I know, you're speaking of games like in every other existing forum, maybe I should just say I like 3DS over Vita, maybe you would accept that over my trying to express my opinion about why IMHO Nintendo can overcome this situation. Mybe is all a misunderstanding, I'm using the words I know to speak, I'm not english native and for me balance is the right choice for what I think...if you don't accept my opinion it's fine, but to me it seems like you just want me and everyone to accept Vita is superior and 3DS is shitty, which is something subjective as long as on a console we play games. You don't think Nintendo can correct their mistakes? Or that Sony could not make some? I will repeat myself: I'm not trying to give credit to either of the two, I'm trying to be objective about the future. I actually would give more credit to Sony for their PSP than for Vita, they expanded the market and create some competition. No, I'm not mad, I'm just trying to explain something to you and you continue make a joke out of me XD