it makes sense to drop the price in japan since there are games to coming to it and has a good line up. but in the rest of the world it would be stupid to drop the price, and if they do it would be even more stupid to drop it to just 199$. if any bump in sales needs to happen they should sell it for 179$. that way it would seem much lower than its original 250$ price tag. also outside of japan the system is getting nothing soon, except soul sacrifice, and thats not really gonna help sales outside of japan. they should wait until august and cut the price then to 179$. with killzone, tearaway and fifa coming out

did they announce any new games for this?

The Portable titles basically branched off into their own series after sales success on the PSP, in a method very much like Capcom. They also have little inhibition to place them on home consoles, i.e. putting it on PS3.

I suppose time will ultimately tell. But remember, Capcom is a hen that likes to lay its eggs in a lot of different nests...

I'm not getting what you are basing that claim on.

Something being popular doesn't suddenly make it it's own series.

The gameboy Megaman games were still part of the Megaman series.

Console and DS animal crossing games are both popular.  They're still the same series though, even when there content doesn;t match up.

The assets are better than in the original (check a non-cutscene close up of Yuna's face in the original game, it's much worse. Or their fingers). It's already more than what most remasters get.

The video was not HD and it didn't show any real gameplay, so I can see why it would seem underwhelming.

UncleScrooge said: This will certainly lift baseline sales to a certain degree. I don't know where the notion of "price cuts only provide temporary boosts" came from but it's wrong. The PS3's 2009 price cut + slim combo lifted baseline sales a lot and Wii's 2009 price cut lifted baseline sales as well - sales just went down in 2010 because of a lack of games. The 3DS price cut spurred sales a lot. You just need games to back the price cut up and keep momentum high. In Vita's case it will be a price cut + some games (at least in Japan) so sales will increase. If the price cut doesn't lift baseline sales at all it will be a clear indicator that the platform is dead - if there is demand a price cut will increase that demand. If a price cut doesn't help there's no demand to begin with. Let's hope that isn't the case. Of course a price cut won't do miracles so I agree with most of you guys on this one. Here's hope for cheaper memory cards. Do it Sony, it'll give you at least one more customer

I've been saying very often for awhile that they should cut all memory card prices in half and introduce a 64gb card for $75 while discontinuing the 4gb one.  Digital Distribution is being pushed on this platform with plus and crossbuy and we will need the space if this system is going to be around for years to come.

probably wanted to get the news of this out so PS4 didn't overshadow it and no one would notice.  After they announced PS4 they would have to scream over the applause that Vita was getting a pricecut and no one would care, and if they tried doing it before PS4 in the conference everyone would just be wanting them to hurry up and get to PS4

Those FFX HD screenshots are really disappointing. I can get a better texture definition on the characters with a 3x scaling on the HW plugin and it seems that the background textures are pretty much the same as the PS2 FFX.

I was really expecting FFX HD, but I need to see more.

this may help in Japan, i could see a few games and a price drop making a significant difference there. Honestly though, in the west it's a different story. The vita at $200 is nothing new in the US and 200 euro in europe is nothing new either. The sales have been so bad many retailers have been selling it for that much already, and during christmas there was deals with games for $200.

Incompetancy. Perfect word to describe SE this gen.