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n-skyline on 04 August 2011
M.U.G.E.N said:
n-skyline said:
can i import this thing or is it region locked?


yep its confirmed NO REGION LOCK :)


perfect as a special present seeing as next to no one will have one... just have to hope  there will be a couple of good games released when it releases in japan



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JEMC on 04 August 2011
Wagram said:
JEMC said:
Wagram said:
Come on folks it's not like kids can't ask their parents for a full Pre-Order of the console for Christmas.

What kind of Christmas present is that?

"Hi son, instead of giving you a console to play and enjoy now, Santa has decided to give you this piece of paper that says that in X months you can get a PSV...  Now you can go to your cousin's house to show him the paper while he plays Mario/Zelda/Starfox on his new 3DS."

 

Now seriously, this is very bad news for Sony and very good news for Nintendo after the recent fiasco.

I usually get receipts every year for christmas. Doesn't bother me or the people I know.

Really? o.O

Well, I can see it for gifts between adults. But a handheld is (at least for me) a gift more suited for kids, and as such voucher is a "bad" gift, something that doesn't express love.

But maybe it's just me.



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Zlejedi on 04 August 2011
JEMC said:
Wagram said:
JEMC said:
Wagram said:
Come on folks it's not like kids can't ask their parents for a full Pre-Order of the console for Christmas.

What kind of Christmas present is that?

"Hi son, instead of giving you a console to play and enjoy now, Santa has decided to give you this piece of paper that says that in X months you can get a PSV...  Now you can go to your cousin's house to show him the paper while he plays Mario/Zelda/Starfox on his new 3DS."

 

Now seriously, this is very bad news for Sony and very good news for Nintendo after the recent fiasco.

I usually get receipts every year for christmas. Doesn't bother me or the people I know.

Really? o.O

Well, I can see it for gifts between adults. But a handheld is (at least for me) a gift more suited for kids, and as such voucher is a "bad" gift, something that doesn't express love.

But maybe it's just me.

I don't remember ever getting 250$ gifts from parents ;) Getting stuff this costly usually required combined cash gifts from family members.



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MonstaMack on 04 August 2011

Missed window by Sony. Should release the Vita in the holiday season to compete with the 3DS.



It's just that simple.

saicho on 05 August 2011
dsage01 said:
This will be huge in Japan for sure but it needs some really good software to do well in the West

I think it actually has good software to launch in the west but rather weak software for Japanese launch based on the games announced.



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AdventWolf on 05 August 2011

Blah, all well. It will give developers more time to have games available near release I guess.



Zlejedi on 05 August 2011
saicho said:
dsage01 said:
This will be huge in Japan for sure but it needs some really good software to do well in the West

I think it actually has good software to launch in the west but rather weak software for Japanese launch based on the games announced.

True that's why Sony needs to launch there first to offer sizable market for japanise games.

For west lineup they seem to be doing good job themselves.



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*Sound Of Rain on 08 August 2011

Expected for Europe but I think that this is a very bad move for Sony to delay in America IMO.

Just for fun lets say that the PSV is more popular than the 3DS to people if they had no friends LOL. Now lets say those same people had a lot of friends...and they all got 3DS's for Christmas! Now people buy a 3DS instead of a PSV for they can play with their friends.

The big point is that this could end up like the 360 against PS3 in America. 360 got a 1 year advantage which made people later on get a 360 because their friends had it.(Not saying that is the only reason why the 360 outsells PS3 in America but I heard from many people that they would have picked PS3 but got a 360 instead because their friends had 1)

...3DS is the 360 and PSV is the PS3. Also, the Holiday's are a huge thing for games and kids and missing it is a bad move for Sony IMO.



MARCUSDJACKSON on 11 August 2011
M.U.G.E.N said:
Machina said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
guys couldn't this be because they plan to have a ps3 price cut in the west? that way there won't be a clash

either way CAN"T WAIT!


It's almost certain they do, though I highly doubt that's the reason for the Vita launch windows.  It's a shame we'll be waiting longer for it, but like I said I'm not in the least bit surprised (had already banked on it being 2012 anyway). Really don't think it's wise to launch so far outside of a holiday season though.


yeah I agree, I expected this to be the case from the start but hoped for a global launch during the holidays

the only reasons for this move that I can think of are

1. something to do with ps3 price cut

2. 3ds price cut

3. logistics issue and being unable to supply promtly all regions from the get go

1 trend i think people are forgeting here is that Sony does good during Janauary before thte spring sales fall t there usual levels.



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