With Sony boasting about how the PS3 and PS Vita can be combined to offer a similar experience to what the Wii U will offer, there are specific reasons why it will ultimately stand no chance against the new Nintendo console.
Using comments from a Ubisoft employee who explains why Rayman Legends wasn't made for the Vita/PS3 we can see why this combination won't gain much developer support in the future.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Agreed
It has been quite clear for a good long time now to the educated consumer that nothing available from current generation hardware can compete with the features provided by the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system. With the boost of next generation technology and the standard addition of the futuristic Nintendo game pad. It is just simply not possible to duplicate what is possible with Nintendos new invention.
Not to say great experiences wont arrive on competing platforms. Just nothing when as far as Nintendo Wii U entertainment system tech is concerned will be completely possible on platforms before it. The extra ram, and technical prowess of the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system put Nintendos feature rich platform innovations far out of reach for current generation offerings.
From what has been documented so far. The Smartglass feature for the xbox 360 simply does not have the buttons necessary to compete with the Nintendo game pad. The Playstation Vita while sharing a few similarities and decent in its own right falls short when it comes to seamless transition, and the needed tech and horse power within the architecture of the PS3 necessary to keep up with the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system.
Developers in the article have explained it quite well. Not only is the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system and its tablet like control innovations and functions far more advanced. The Playstation Vita as of now simply does not have the support or install base to make a big enough impact within civilization to create a big enough impact for developers to feel the need to take advantage of such features. Similar to what happened to the move when following the innovative steps of the Wii Mote. Standard implementation is key. What Nintendos competitors offer simply have not taken advantage of that.
Hopefully competing console brands will take a page from Nintendos book and offer a standard Nintendo game pad like functionality out of the box with next generation console offerings.
Rated E For Everyone
Wii U will be a beast this holidays. Can't wait to get mine.
I don't think it's a matter of the Vita/PS3 'competing' with the Wiiu, it's about offering developers an alternative market to play test their ideas. It lowers the risk and offers a bigger potential market.
Sorry, I need 5 reasons! XD
@ GribbleGrunger
But is the Vita/PS3 combo really all that more 'tried and tested' than the Wii U?
Of course the PS3 is, but in order to develop something for Vita/PS3 set up they have to treat it like it is a different console than the PS3 due to the low numbers of PS3 owners that own a Vita.
There are 2 million + Vita owners already, and let's just say all of them own a PS3 (which I know a lot of them do) even when you say 2 million people own the Vita/PS3 combo it isn't like the Wii U won't top that sales number and become more 'tested' in 3-6 months.
And with Vita software sales not being all that high, and there being very little (almost none) PS3 games that launched with PS Vita support (and not being first party) I'd wager to guess that some developers may not see the Vita/PS3 as much of an alternative if they want to develop something specifically designed for devices like the Wii U Game Pad.