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Can This Handheld Generation do 200mil?

Yes Nintendo+Sony FTW!!! 20 15.63%
 
No, 3DS Will Sell Well, Vita Not 73 57.03%
 
Both Do Well But Miss the 200mil Goal 23 17.97%
 
PSV TV will sell well, but not to that extent 5 3.91%
 
Handheld Gaming Sucks, My... 7 5.47%
 
Total:128
tbone51 on 10 September 2013
Conegamer said:
The 3DS will maybe make it to 100mil max. No way can the Vita get near that, regardless of all the new concepts for it flying around.

Also, the Vita TV can only play a select few Vita games, ones which don't use the touch capabilities right now. I don't think that's gonna fly off the shelf either.


100mil Max? Really! Cant say that yet intill we see the 2DS perform :P

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Conegamer on 10 September 2013
tbone51 said:
Conegamer said:
The 3DS will maybe make it to 100mil max. No way can the Vita get near that, regardless of all the new concepts for it flying around.

Also, the Vita TV can only play a select few Vita games, ones which don't use the touch capabilities right now. I don't think that's gonna fly off the shelf either.


100mil Max? Really! Cant say that yet intill we see the 2DS perform :P

Yes. Yes I can say that. I just did, didn't I?

It could take off, sure. But we're coming up to halfway through the life of the system. We've had a major hardware update, with another coming next month. The biggest games will be out come the end of the year no doubt, so it can only possibly be downhill from here. 

Maybe it could make it to 110mil, but that doesn't change the fact we will get nowhere near 200mil.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

Slimebeast on 10 September 2013
DanneSandin said:
It's too early to tell if Vita TV will be a success or not, but with the $99 price point I think it'll appeal to quite a few! But I highly doubt 3DS+Vita will reach 200m in sales. 175m tops, but probably less.

But lets say that Vita TV actually manages to sell 75m units on its own. That's not too encouraging for handheld gaming. Vita TV is stationery and thus really a home console - that just happens to play handheld games.

Selling 200m which of half is made up by a stationery portable console doesn't paint a pretty picture.

75 million? lol, talk about how the enthusiasm of passionate fans can alter the perceptions of a neutral bystander.

If 75 million is the bar for success then I can tell you right now it won't be a success.

Try dividing it by ten.



DanneSandin on 10 September 2013
Slimebeast said:
DanneSandin said:
It's too early to tell if Vita TV will be a success or not, but with the $99 price point I think it'll appeal to quite a few! But I highly doubt 3DS+Vita will reach 200m in sales. 175m tops, but probably less.

But lets say that Vita TV actually manages to sell 75m units on its own. That's not too encouraging for handheld gaming. Vita TV is stationery and thus really a home console - that just happens to play handheld games.

Selling 200m which of half is made up by a stationery portable console doesn't paint a pretty picture.

75 million? lol, talk about how the enthusiasm of passionate fans can alter the perceptions of a neutral bystander.

If 75 million is the bar for success then I can tell you right now it won't be a success.

Try dividing it by ten.

What I meant to say with that figure (75m) is that that's NOT 75m sold portables - even if they're bundled with the Vita numbers. Vita and Vita TV is really two different things. Vita TV is NOT a portable, so even if it sold 200m on its own that wouldn't be good for handheld gaming. That would be good for... Sony I guess?



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the_dengle on 10 September 2013

You're counting the Vita TV as a handheld console? Isn't that kind of... cheating?



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DanneSandin on 10 September 2013
the_dengle said:

You're counting the Vita TV as a handheld console? Isn't that kind of... cheating?

Yes it is :P I'd say that Wii U is more of a portable system than Vita TV ^^



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Slimebeast on 10 September 2013
DanneSandin said:
Slimebeast said:
DanneSandin said:
It's too early to tell if Vita TV will be a success or not, but with the $99 price point I think it'll appeal to quite a few! But I highly doubt 3DS+Vita will reach 200m in sales. 175m tops, but probably less.

But lets say that Vita TV actually manages to sell 75m units on its own. That's not too encouraging for handheld gaming. Vita TV is stationery and thus really a home console - that just happens to play handheld games.

Selling 200m which of half is made up by a stationery portable console doesn't paint a pretty picture.

75 million? lol, talk about how the enthusiasm of passionate fans can alter the perceptions of a neutral bystander.

If 75 million is the bar for success then I can tell you right now it won't be a success.

Try dividing it by ten.

What I meant to say with that figure (75m) is that that's NOT 75m sold portables - even if they're bundled with the Vita numbers. Vita and Vita TV is really two different things. Vita TV is NOT a portable, so even if it sold 200m on its own that wouldn't be good for handheld gaming. That would be good for... Sony I guess?

I understood your point about what it would really mean for handheld sales, and I also didn't mean to be sarcastic to you. I just used your post since it had a concrete number.



DanneSandin on 10 September 2013
Slimebeast said:
DanneSandin said:
Slimebeast said:

75 million? lol, talk about how the enthusiasm of passionate fans can alter the perceptions of a neutral bystander.

If 75 million is the bar for success then I can tell you right now it won't be a success.

Try dividing it by ten.

What I meant to say with that figure (75m) is that that's NOT 75m sold portables - even if they're bundled with the Vita numbers. Vita and Vita TV is really two different things. Vita TV is NOT a portable, so even if it sold 200m on its own that wouldn't be good for handheld gaming. That would be good for... Sony I guess?

I understood your point about what it would really mean for handheld sales, and I also didn't mean to be sarcastic to you. I just used your post since it had a concrete number.

Aaah ok =)

But I don't understand the "passionate fan" thing though...



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tiffac on 10 September 2013

A part of me has doubts because of the recent struggles of the Vita but a huge portion of me hopes, that this prediction will happen. So those analyst would eat their words.



Slimebeast on 10 September 2013
DanneSandin said:
Slimebeast said:
DanneSandin said:
Slimebeast said:

75 million? lol, talk about how the enthusiasm of passionate fans can alter the perceptions of a neutral bystander.

If 75 million is the bar for success then I can tell you right now it won't be a success.

Try dividing it by ten.

What I meant to say with that figure (75m) is that that's NOT 75m sold portables - even if they're bundled with the Vita numbers. Vita and Vita TV is really two different things. Vita TV is NOT a portable, so even if it sold 200m on its own that wouldn't be good for handheld gaming. That would be good for... Sony I guess?

I understood your point about what it would really mean for handheld sales, and I also didn't mean to be sarcastic to you. I just used your post since it had a concrete number.

Aaah ok =)

But I don't understand the "passionate fan" thing though...

Passionate fans, the passionate Sony fans who praise and hype everything that is Sony. This makes it sometimes hard for an outsider (you and me) to make an edjucated judgement wether something really has potential for success in the real world.

(Xperia Play smartphone, PS Move, Sorcery, PS All-Stars just to name a few off the top of my head)

This is such a case. The fans on forums are wild about this announcement, which might lead observers to believe that Vita TV truly has potential for success.

Now my analysis is that this device is dead in the water for a multitude of reasons.

You strip a $199 handheld from its screen and controller and all of a sudden it will be a run away success in the mass market?

Not even mighty Apple is able to sell very many Apple TV's, so why would Sony be able to?

A couple of years from now, when we look in the back mirror (if anyone bothers to) we will say that no wonder it failed when even Sony themselves didn't believe in it. Sony didn't even have the confidence to name it Sony TV but instead experimented and associated it with the Vita brand.