He forgot to mention that the exact same game you can buy on the iPhone will be marked up 5 to 10 times as much on the Vita. Plants vs. Zombies is $3 on the iTunes store while on the the Vita it will be $15 dollars, or ( not Vita related but still relevant) on the PS3 X-Men is $10 and on the iPhone it's $1.

Charging more for "bigger games" is understandable, but charging way more for simple, casual, downloadable games on the Vita is wrong. Core gamers are the people that are buying the Vita and spend the most amount of money the on video game industry per person. Yet it is the Core gamers that are getting ripped off.

I'm actually thinking about canceling my preorder of the Vita because it has no games coming out that I want to play, or that I can't play on my home console, or play on my iPod for way cheaper.

Far be it from me to be an advocate for IOS, but some people/sites seem to be forgetting there is shovelware and shitty $40 games on all consoles/handhelds and enevitably Vita, and there are some amazing cheap games on IOS.

Too often they're taking the 'amazing $40 immersed experience vs crappy $1 game that last 10 minutes.' attack

I don't think those price ranges are going to help Vita sales.

"But for PS Vita, you'll see games that sell for $50, $40, $30. And on the digital, $45, $35, $23, $15, $10 and $5. A very wide variety of pricing. We're looking at each title and the value and scope of the content, and trying to match people's value perception with the pricing.

Yeah I've seen this already. They kinda have to do this in order to be competitive. Not liking the $50 for Uncharted though. Reviews aren't so good so hopefully that will drop down to $40.

omg -- how many times do we have to have the US prices don't include tax and your taxes are high conversation.  blame your government..

Very odd to say the least.

Not quite - the 40 pounds is already including the VAT (20% or something?) while the 40 dollars is what we pay before taxes, meaning close to $50 if taxes were the same. It's still not equal, but not quite as skewed. 

That's the bigger issue than the availability of full retail priced games in my opinion and likely in the opinion of anyone who already games on an iOS or Android device.

Unless the physical controls made that much of a difference, why would I pay more for the same game I can play on my phone or tablet? Admittedly, a lot of games simply don't work that great with touchscreen only input, but for those that do (and any decently designed game made for touch interface should), it's a very hard sell on the PSV.

I don't have an issue with paying $30 for a portable game chip, or even more if the game in question is really that good (something like MGS Peacewalker) and it's not available on other hardware platforms (like Chains of Olympus before the HD port). But the reality is for games in that price bracket, designed to be played for hours rather than minutes at a time, I'd rather be playing them on a console. There are very few games I can think of offhand that actually work better as portable games, so it's almost always an issue of convenience, whether that be throwaway game pricing (iOS/Android) or ports of games I enjoy so much that I feel somehow obligated to take them with me on trips, which is extremely rare.

Wait, is Golden Abyss $40 USD?

It's $50 CAD. Close to sixty after taxes.

That is one expensive-ass handheld game.

this,...is what i was trying to say the first time.  it's no where near as skewed as it first appears when you stop comparing apples to mangos.