3.  A good deal is what consumer perceive the product to be, not because a product sell at a lost than its a good deal.  Example: Blackberry playbook selling $200 for 16gb, RIM is selling at a lost but people still don't buy it.
I'm talking about the PSVITA's issue that they have NOW.  I'm not talking about the future or the past, just now. Of course its gonna drop in price and boom sales will increase.

4.  If you fail to see these goods are "Substitute goods"  competiting for the same disposible income I can't really say anything more.  They are not competiting against the game quality, these products are competing for a slice of the consumer's budget.

5. Its the psvita issue, they need to crater to more people thats all i'm saying how they do it is their problem.  Where did you pull the kinect adverstising thing from?  I'm just looking at the sale, xbox did really well this year without much exclusives and a lot of kinect sales.

I'm done with this thread.

3. Not true, just because someone thinks something is a good deal doesn't mean it is, the word scam wouldn't exist if it was. The reverse also works just because someone doesn't see the value doesn't mean it isn't a good deal for the money. Frankly I think psp and 3DS are doing far more to hurt it then the price (but of course lower price always increases sales, people are greedy)

4. The psp is taking more the Vita's demographic then phones are. Vita's selling point is the games so if they want to compete with the vita they have to compete with the games. 

5. Advertising is the only reason the thing sells that's were. The games are crap, the thing doesn't even work and yet it sells? Why? Because there's 2 commericals for it every hour on half a dozen channels. Also Vita doesn't need to cater to casuals it needs to cater more to the hardcore people like me. I really like the Vita I really want it but in reality there's only one game on it I'm dying to play and it's not even out yet. I know I'll like alot of other games and alot of games are coming out but gravity rush is really the only game coming out in the next few months that I really want. I'm probably going to get a vita on launch but only because I don't have a psp anymore and I hardly had any psp games so I'm dying to play alot of those ones too but if I still had my psp I'd probably wait on the vita I suspect many are the same. Sony releasing alot of dumbed down crap to appeal to casuals won't help it's sales anymore then call of duty (which is already coming out) will. They should of made more games like gravity daze near launch not more causual stuff. 

I'm in shock seeing those poor Vita sales, however I'm so glad for the 3DS

Can't imagine how big the sales will be for the next pokemon game

All it took was to take Monster Hunter and make Mario Kart and the Vita is practically dead at launch. Damn shame.

I can't emphasize enough how important Monster Hunter was for Sony in Japan. People laughed at Tri G, it's a mediocre port with no online play and casual friendly additions and still amassed 900k in sales, that is nothing to laugh it. It's as though Sony hate sales.

Selling your wares for profit is price grouging now?

You're not serious surely?

That would be giving him the benefit of the doubt though ...

Vita may recover fairly nicely the final week of 2011, as that is typically the biggest week for Sony's platforms. It's really too early to judge the launch in any meaningful way. If the next 30 weeks are 40k on average, its a great launch, if the next 30 weeks are 10k on average its a huge flop. The path Vita takes should be pretty clear by late January though once everything settle back from winter highs to spring-fall lows.

Leaning towards the middle of that range, as 3DS is going to be enormous in Japan during 2012 - presumably its the 15m people in Japan who bought a DS in 2006 - 2007 (remember, that's the equivalent of buying 37m systems in the US in two years - highest two year figure ever in the US is about 20m for Wii and DS) starting to uprgrade now that they've had DS for 5-6 years.

Sony cut the price of the PS3 in July 2007. The system released in November 2006, so I'd call that within one year of release. If Sony could sell their products at a profit you don't think they would? (price gouging? I think not)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2007-07-09-playstation-price_N.htm

Where did you hear that?