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I keep hearing about a possible WiiU price cut like the Vita won't outlast it on the market. And to be honest I think a Vita price cut would be more effective. Although a few have a suggested the Vita is undertracked, anyone with proof of this?



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Probably just. The Wii U still has 3 or 4 AAA games to help boost it. The Vita has bugger all and is just surviving on JRPGs with ridiculous titles and indie games.



Dr.Vita said:
Scisca said:
You guys must be crazy. I'm sorry, but I just can't believe what I'm seeing here!

Vita has got a massive (when we're talking about these two bomba consoles) lead and Wii U is about to be killed and all support from Nintendo is to be dropped. The difference is almost a quarter of lifetime Wii U sales!! A quarter!!

There is no way in hell Wii U outsells Vita. The very day that Nintendo announces the next console, Wii U stops selling. Vita won't be replaced in years (if ever) and it still has many games from big franchises coming. Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, the new Minecraft, Ys, Digimon, VLR3, etc. These games will move consoles in Japan and we are about to get a bunch of new announcements on TGS. You guys are underestimating Vita so badly, you should be ashamed of yourself.

On the other hand Wii U is only getting crappy Amiibo grames, Pokken, SMTxFE and its swan song in Zelda U, which will be a multiplat either way. That's a recipe for outselling Vita? Right. Get real people.


This!!! 
People always say that Vita has bad support though it has a much better support than Wii U. 
Playstation Vita is getting Dragon Quest: Builders, Dragon Quest: Heroes 2, Legend of Heroes 1+2, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, Digimon World: Next Order, God Eater: Resurrection, Ys 8, Zero Escape 3, World of Final Fantasy and so much more big games... 
Wii U is not even getting a quarter of these great games!

Tell me number of this games that are exclusives!?

Vita only have Japanese multiplats and Indies, Wii U still have full support of Nintendo and have Indies, and guess what, all Nintendo games are exclusives. Like or not, Vita is device only for Indie and Japanese multiplats, on other hand Wii U is full of great Nintendo exclusives.

Only reason why Vita will be sold better on the end is because it will have much longer life (of course without any Sony support), Nintendo home console have life span around 5 years and PSP had life of almost 10 years. Also, probably it will be last Sony handheld and Sony will keep producing Vita only because they have profit on hardware while they dont have any investment from software side.



It didn't manage it with with Mario Kart or SSB, so it sure isn't going to pull it off with just Star Fox. Zelda is the only game left now that could push Wii-U over Vita but i have a very strong feeling that game is going cross-platform and going to be on NX aswell.

So short answer: Nope.



Wii U sells a lot better than vita during holidays

Wii U sells 10X better than vita on USA while the other regions Vita sells with a small advantage

Vita has 1 year advantage yet the LT sales of both devices are almost identical

Nintendo support Wii U with more notable games

Vita support resume in Niche Japoneses games and Fifa

My answer: I don't know. Nobody knows Vita sales, this thing can still come with more 2M from undertracking bc reasons



 

 

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Miyamotoo said:
Dr.Vita said:
Scisca said:
You guys must be crazy. I'm sorry, but I just can't believe what I'm seeing here!

Vita has got a massive (when we're talking about these two bomba consoles) lead and Wii U is about to be killed and all support from Nintendo is to be dropped. The difference is almost a quarter of lifetime Wii U sales!! A quarter!!

There is no way in hell Wii U outsells Vita. The very day that Nintendo announces the next console, Wii U stops selling. Vita won't be replaced in years (if ever) and it still has many games from big franchises coming. Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, the new Minecraft, Ys, Digimon, VLR3, etc. These games will move consoles in Japan and we are about to get a bunch of new announcements on TGS. You guys are underestimating Vita so badly, you should be ashamed of yourself.

On the other hand Wii U is only getting crappy Amiibo grames, Pokken, SMTxFE and its swan song in Zelda U, which will be a multiplat either way. That's a recipe for outselling Vita? Right. Get real people.


This!!! 
People always say that Vita has bad support though it has a much better support than Wii U. 
Playstation Vita is getting Dragon Quest: Builders, Dragon Quest: Heroes 2, Legend of Heroes 1+2, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, Digimon World: Next Order, God Eater: Resurrection, Ys 8, Zero Escape 3, World of Final Fantasy and so much more big games... 
Wii U is not even getting a quarter of these great games!

Tell me number of this games that are exclusives!?

Vita only have Japanese multiplats and Indies, Wii U still have full support of Nintendo and have Indies, and guess what, all Nintendo games are exclusives. Like or not, Vita is device only for Indie and Japanese multiplats, on other hand Wii U is full of great Nintendo exclusives.

Only reason why Vita will be sold better on the end is because it will have much longer life (of course without any Sony support), Nintendo home console have life span around 5 years and PSP had life of almost 10 years. Also, probably it will be last Sony handheld and Sony will keep producing Vita only because they have profit on hardware while they dont have any investment from software side.


And where the heck is the problem with this? Nintendo gamer always bring this argument because they have no third-party support on their consoles. Third-party can boost sales as much as first party games can do! And I have as much fun playing third-party games as first-party games.

This shows that you know nothing about PS Vita...
The same thing can be said about Wii U. Wii U is only getting the same games which we saw already the last 2-4 generations (Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Donkey Kong....). 

Even if the Sony western first party support stopped after 2 years, it has much better first party games than Wii U.
And with all games combined PS Vita destroys Wii U.



Probably not. Though I think Wii U might get a big price cut and hardware revision while vita may be discontinued sooner than most think. Sony was actually giving away vita tvs if you bought that discounted DS3($40) a few weeks ago and Europe had some crazy vita+games bundles, since they don't profit from first party games anyway, it makes me wonder if they already stopped production.



I don't think so. Its still behind and with the NX expected to come out soon, and it might never be able to.



    

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Miyamotoo said:
midrange said:
Probably not, most nintendo fans already have a wii u and the wii u isn't diversifying its catalog with non Nintendo-like games, sooo sales will probably fall.

Vita sales will also probably fall, but it still is a hit in Japan, and it already has a 2 million lead

YTD Japan - 3DS - 1.300k

YTD in Japan - Vita - 640k

YTD in Japan - Wii U - 400k

Doesn't seem like hit in Japan either.

Hit as in, still currently selling relatively well compared to everything else. Even if we dispute the meaning of "hit", the point still stands that vita has a huge lead on the wii u in japan



Just get rid of the pad and then bundle the Wii U and the Vita. So they can sell in misery xD

Oh wait... That means the Wii U will never outsell the Vita... Nevermind then ^^