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Lawlight on 26 September 2015
ROBOTECHHEAVEN said:
the reason the vita was not a success like sony wanted, is because sony themselves killed the system with poor 1st support and overpriced memory cards and system. Also poor ads and deals to get ppl to buy the system, all the issues with the vita remain soley on the shoulders of sony, its just that simple.
I myself love the vita , I own the system with over 75 games, but using the excuse they keep using for the poor received vita is the mobile market is severly flawed at its core and they know that themselves.
the Nintendo 3ds has sold over 55 million systems and when its done will come close to 70 million I wager, yes its a big gap from the Nintendo ds but its still a very healthy market with the so called mobile market that sony is blaming the fate of the vita on.


The 3DS is alive thanks to Japan. The best proof that he's right is Nintendo not releasing a dedicated handheld system.



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RPGFan1 on 26 September 2015

NX is about to release and it'll be the next big thing, what Sony should do is what until rumors start popping up about Nintendo's next big portable console as the NX portable sales start to dwindle, that's when Sony should launch their next portable. A good two years on the market before Nintendo with a portable console that's guaranteed to be more powerful and more reasonably priced for what you're actually getting under the hood.

Competing with sales of a dying console is much easier than competing with the sales of a brand new console like the Vita was competing against. Doesn't help that the NIntendo 3DS console dropped in price within the first year, making peoples assumption the same would happen to the Vita if they kept waiting. People who thought CFW would hit the Vita so waiting for that, and developers who were at first too afraid to develop for the Vita because of low sales in the US as perceived at the end of the PSPs life, something the rampant piracy was a problem with, caused by the CFW on the PSP in the first place..



KLXVER on 26 September 2015
Lawlight said:
ROBOTECHHEAVEN said:
the reason the vita was not a success like sony wanted, is because sony themselves killed the system with poor 1st support and overpriced memory cards and system. Also poor ads and deals to get ppl to buy the system, all the issues with the vita remain soley on the shoulders of sony, its just that simple.
I myself love the vita , I own the system with over 75 games, but using the excuse they keep using for the poor received vita is the mobile market is severly flawed at its core and they know that themselves.
the Nintendo 3ds has sold over 55 million systems and when its done will come close to 70 million I wager, yes its a big gap from the Nintendo ds but its still a very healthy market with the so called mobile market that sony is blaming the fate of the vita on.


The 3DS is alive thanks to Japan. The best proof that he's right is Nintendo not releasing a dedicated handheld system.


The 3DS has only sold about 3 million units more in Japan...



Lawlight on 26 September 2015
KLXVER said:
Lawlight said:


The 3DS is alive thanks to Japan. The best proof that he's right is Nintendo not releasing a dedicated handheld system.


The 3DS has only sold about 3 million units more in Japan...


More than?



KLXVER on 26 September 2015
Lawlight said:
KLXVER said:


The 3DS has only sold about 3 million units more in Japan...


More than?


North America. About 4 million more than europe.



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ihatefatkatz on 26 September 2015

I'm shocked



DerNebel on 26 September 2015
ROBOTECHHEAVEN said:
the reason the vita was not a success like sony wanted, is because sony themselves killed the system with poor 1st support and overpriced memory cards and system. Also poor ads and deals to get ppl to buy the system, all the issues with the vita remain soley on the shoulders of sony, its just that simple.
I myself love the vita , I own the system with over 75 games, but using the excuse they keep using for the poor received vita is the mobile market is severly flawed at its core and they know that themselves.
the Nintendo 3ds has sold over 55 million systems and when its done will come close to 70 million I wager, yes its a big gap from the Nintendo ds but its still a very healthy market with the so called mobile market that sony is blaming the fate of the vita on.

That is wrong on a ton of levels.



Azuren on 26 September 2015

I really think Sony is better off, but I do hope they start making phones and tablets with "Playstation" operating systems on them.



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Scisca on 26 September 2015
Azuren said:
I really think Sony is better off, but I do hope they start making phones and tablets with "Playstation" operating systems on them.


They can just put PS Now on tablets, support the Dual Shock with a nifty holder and call it a day.

 

I'm happy they aren't planning Vita 2. The handheld is powerful enough to still run any indie game and have good looking games designed for it. No need for a new one that would sell even worse and kill Vita at the same time. All I want from Sony is Daemon's Souls, Gran Turismo 5 or 6 and negotiating a Morrowind, KOTOR 1 and 2, Gothic 2 and GTA3: Trilogy ports. Just ports.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/

My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

Valdath on 26 September 2015

Nintendo, mobile and Sony incompetence this handheld gen forced them out of the market.

Also Capcom & Atlus didn't really help either.