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Vita will be the best handheld ever

Yeah 117 40.77%
 
It has great games, but u... 170 59.23%
 
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NintendoPie said:
Turkish said:

Upcoming PS Vita Titles (2012)

  • Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation
  • Call of Duty: Declassification
  • Dr Who and the Eternity Clock
  • FIFA 13
  • Foosball 2012
  • Guacamelee!
  • Jet Set Radio
  • LEGO Lord of the Rings
  • LittleBigPlanet (Was this actually confirmed?)
  • Madden 13
  • Need for Speed: Most Wanted
  • New Little King’s Story (Might not do anything.)
  • Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath HD
  • Persona 4 (Will do some.)
  • PlayStation All-Stars (Not too sure.)
  • Puddle
  • Retro City Rampage
  • Rocketbirds
  • Silent Hill: Book of Memories
  • Sine Mora
  • Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (?)
  • Smart As
  • Sonic & All-Star Racing Might do a little bit but it's a Multiplat so it's not like sales will be concentrated.
  • Sound Shapes (?)
  • Soul Sacrifice
  • Street Fighter X Tekken (Might do something.)
  • Super Monkey Ball (I think the hayday for this has past.)
  • World Rally Championship 3
  • Zen PinBall 2
  • Zone of the Enders HD collection
  • Warrior’s Lair

http://www.shoptonews.net/2012/07/20/ps-vita-is-not-dead-its-just-waking-up/

Yeah, the line-up looks good but how many of these games will actually affect the HW's sales and the popularity of the console? 

The one's I bolded seem to be the only one's that come to mind. CoD and AssCreed will be the biggest gravity for the system and they have console counterparts.

Not saying it's line-up is bad, just how much good will it do?

The first two games should be enough to boost sales significantly, as long as COD ends up closely resembling its console counterpart without any serious issues.  I really hope they're allocating enough resources to make this game awesome, and as much as I am against the way activision has handled this franchise with their annual installments, the thought of playing cod multiplayer on my vita is almost too much to handle.  Cant wait.



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It needs some unique games. I look at that list and I see a bunch of watered down PS3/360 ports. Nothing that makes me want to drop a couple hundred dollars on the thing.



qmoney88 said:

The first two games should be enough to boost sales significantly, as long as COD ends up closely resembling its console counterpart without any serious issues.  I really hope they're allocating enough resources to make this game awesome, and as much as I am against the way activision has handled this franchise with their annual installments, the thought of playing cod multiplayer on my vita is almost too much to handle.  Cant wait.

It's a good idea. But I'm afraid it's console counterparts will/might out-shadow the HandHeld Versions.



NintendoPie said:
qmoney88 said:

The first two games should be enough to boost sales significantly, as long as COD ends up closely resembling its console counterpart without any serious issues.  I really hope they're allocating enough resources to make this game awesome, and as much as I am against the way activision has handled this franchise with their annual installments, the thought of playing cod multiplayer on my vita is almost too much to handle.  Cant wait.

It's a good idea. But I'm afraid it's console counterparts will/might out-shadow the HandHeld Versions.

Very true, but then again being beaten by the most established franchise this generation isnt necessarily a bad thing, even if the game is within the same franchise.  I believe it may come down to how they market the thing honestly, as long as Sony shows off enough multiplayer to convince more ps3 gamers they need this on the go, it could essentially synergize with Black ops 2 and be treated as an extension, rather than a spinoff.  This could boost Vita sales more than anything.



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Gravity Rush is not unique!!!Soul Sacrifice is not unique,Sound Shape is not unique escape Plan is not unique?

Where is the unique games of 3DS?



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

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J_Allard said:
It needs some unique games. I look at that list and I see a bunch of watered down PS3/360 ports. Nothing that makes me want to drop a couple hundred dollars on the thing.

Great point as well, there needs to be a healthy mix which it has experienced thus far to a point, I still want 1 million jrpgs before the next handheld gen please.



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Japanese line-up is the one lacking right now.

Vita must have an EPIC TGS to get back on the track. So far it's, sorry to say, lame. Hatsune Miku biggest game of the year? Yeah, mega-lame.



small44 said:

Gravity Rush is not unique!!!Soul Sacrifice is not unique,Sound Shape is not unique escape Plan is not unique?

Where is the unique games of 3DS?

All of the Nintendo First Party games.



qmoney88 said:
homer said:
NeoRatt said:
vita has poor overall sales compared to 3DS, but a very strong following...

would you rather have 10 million people buy that purchase 3 games during the entire lifetime of the device or would you rather have 1 million people buy that purchase 50 games for the lifetime of the device?

sales are not everything for devices that are game centric. although this site promotes that... sales to core gamers that buy many more games then casuals are important.



Your comparison might be correct if there was data that supported your claim that the vita had a higher software attachment rate but in reality...it doesn't...

You cant track digital sales, which this device is clearly aimed at.  I have purchased 8 actual vita games, only one is physical media (umvc3)  the rest (Gravity rush, MGS hd, MK, D3, Rayman, U:GA, and wipeout) were all digital purchases for me.  Sony stated they were very pleased with digital sales as well.


i am pretty sure sony can track their own digital sales toa psn account just like nintendo will be able to do with 3ds digital sales.

in any case you still haven't really answered the question. the only way we will know what the attach rate is once we get some official data.

For one I got i think 13 3ds games myself. None on vita yet as waiting for a price cut to come to Australia.

Vita ona tech levelisimpressive and has an excellent chance of winning the west with the game annoucements so far, but it will take time to catch up in sales to 3ds. Nintendo will need to step it up with western style game support to cater to more people if it is to maintain the lead. One missed opportunity was pokemon. They released two black/white and conquest on DS. Now they need to wait a while for people to get sick of those games before releasing pokemon 3ds. Pokemon has always been a hardware seller for them and no was the time to bring it. next two years will be interesting in the west for handheld gaming to see how it all pans out. 

Personally I feel the vita is almost dead in Japan since its lots MH and the 3ds line up isamazing there.



 

 

So Gravity Rush and Soul Sacrifice are not unique and all first party nintendo games are unique!!!

Even LBP is more unique then Mario.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m