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Will the Vita make a comeback?

Who said it needed a comeback? 34 10.18%
 
It's on the rise and will succeed 132 39.52%
 
It will die soon 167 50.00%
 
Total:333
GdaTyler on 06 October 2013
biglittlesps said:
GdaTyler said:
Blacksaber said:
GdaTyler said:

Predict what sales would be by this time next year, provided that it somehow gets more big releases in NA and Europe. I'm very satisfied so far about Japan's 2014 lineup and the introduction of the Vita TV. NA and Europe have absolutely NOTHING for next year. Hopefully things will change. Anyways also give your reason why you think Vita can still succeed, and what it needs to do to achieve that.

 

Wow, look at that poll. O_O So much hate.


Hate no. Most people even those who love their Vita know the situation it's in.

Ok fine I agree. I own a Vita and I am really worried. There's only two new games I want from it from the West, but about 5 or 6 from the East. 3DS is crushing it and it doesn't look like it will get much better. The fact that I'm relying on Vita TV right now to increase the install base is depressing.

Don't worry and have faith on Sony. I don't think sony will quit the support and they are in bad position lately so they are relying upon PS4 for a turn around which is going pretty well so far and they allocated most of their resources on that. So, once PS4 is out and going well then Sony will turn the Vita that nobody ever predicted. I'm sure this will happen becaues the hardware, Sony's ecosystem of games, their first party strenth, their Audio/video resources are great strenth. 

Vita has great strenths and it just needs some games which is easy for Sony(as i said before right now Sony is giving most of the spotlight for PS4 launch so they are not focusing on Vita and also Hanheld doesn't save Sony completely if they allocate more resouces on Vita now, but if they give all the attention to PS4 which has the power to Save Sony as a company not jus Gaming) other than that nothing to worry about, when games from Sony First party start to roll then it will pick up and don't forget the other strengths of VIta where other Handheld can never have which is Gaikai Streaming and PS4 Remote play to play almost all the Playstation games on the go.

And Sony doesn't deserve failure with Vita because they have risked so much for gaming so they won't and will never get failed. Also Sony is alwasy slow in starting but picks up faster and stays longer with support which can be proved with the last consoles of theirs.

Thanks for giving me more hope with your reasoning. I think the Vita focus will be back again like it was 2011-2012. 2013 was the year of PS4. Possibly 2014-2015 the year of Vita? I'm really hopeful with the Vita TV. That's sure to appeal to a lot of people, more so in the West than the East.



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lehamsy on 06 October 2013

I think that the Vita will be discontinued in 2015. Reasons are many, but to make it short. It is a system that doesn't provide exclusive and unique content. It wouldn't sell well even if its price were $129.



GdaTyler on 06 October 2013
Scisca said:
The sad thing is that Sony never even gave Vita true life. It never gave it a Naughty Dog game. Never gave a Santa Monica game. We have no GT, no GoW, almost no exclusive IPs, the West got only 2 Western AAA games this year! How many games has SCEA given us? Even SCEE isn't doing great, though at least we get KZ:M and Tearaway. And most importantly - why no 3rd parties? Right now is the perfect time to get their support. They will have to put extra work and cash in the development of PS4 games that will be released in a year or so, so they could use a smaller team (like Ubisoft Sofia, etc.) to make a Vita game in between to give them extra resources and warm the crowd up before the release of their PS4 game. At least that's what Sony should be telling 3rd parties like every single day until they agree to give us an exclusive game.

God, I hope we're gonna get an exclusive GTA soon... And that Japan will finally give us a game from a big franchise, even bigger than Persona (like FF, MGS or DQ). We need those.


There have been some hints at GTA and especially inFamous on Vita. If you saw that Dualshockers interview with Nate Fox you will see how much he stuttered when the Vita was mentioned, it had me on the floor laughing with joy ^^^ I'll make a thread soon asking you guys about it.



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GdaTyler on 06 October 2013
lehamsy said:
I think that the Vita will be discontinued on 2015. Reasons are many, but to make it short. It is a system that doesn't provide exclusive and unique content. It wouldn't sell well even if its price were $129.


That's a stupid idea. Why would Sony discountinue a console that is halfway through by then? If I recall correctly, the Vita's attach rate is so high thatt average Vita owners spend A LOT of money on the software available. So I'm convinced they're not selling the thing at a loss.



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DirtyP2002 on 06 October 2013

nope.
Handheld gaming is on its way out.



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PlaystaionGamer on 06 October 2013

sorry but no. its dead in the west. we have no games next year that will interest the mass market who we need to buy it. its done sadly.



Cheebee on 06 October 2013

Doesn't a 'comeback' imply that it has seen sucess in the past..?



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biglittlesps on 06 October 2013
lehamsy said:

I think that the Vita will be discontinued in 2015. Reasons are many, but to make it short. It is a system that doesn't provide exclusive and unique content. It wouldn't sell well even if its price were $129.


It doesn't provide exclusive content, Sony is the top in making more Exclusives in quantity with PS3 recently and  already they have made few for Vita with NEW IP's(unlike using old IP's because they want to give new experiences also) are Tearaway, Gravity rush, Soul sacrifice, Murasaki baby and more to come in 2014 from First party and the reason is because they want spotlight on PS4. Also Vita is great companion for PS4 and can Play almost all playstation games from Gaikai and in emulation. They promised to unleash more from PS vita(so they revelead PS vita TV) in future but not to discontinue in 2015



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brendude13 on 06 October 2013

If the Xbox, Gamecube and N64 were all "dead", then yes, Vita is "dead".



DamnTastic on 06 October 2013

I certainly hope so.
It's an amazing handheld.