GenGAME Writes: The Vita may not be selling well at the one year mark in its life, but there’s definitely interest in the system. A recent Famitsu poll indicates that Japanese gamers are more interested in buying a Vita than any other system in 2013. So how does Sony transform that potential into sales?
For most, the debate comes down to two options: a price cut or more “must have” games. In time, we’ll see both of these come to pass on the Vita, but which one does the system need more? In a way, the two are connected. It’s true that nothing sells hardware quite like good software, but a price cut is just the jumpstart that the Vita needs to build up its software library.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
It could use an aggressive price cut alongside the next round of major first-party titles. I wonder if they're planning to reveal a price drop at PlayStation 2013? Give the little handheld a kind of re-launch in a sense, kind of like the DS Lite, but maybe a less significant hardware iteration/brand upgrade.
It probably would, but let's get something straight.
The device does NOT need a price cut. Everyone thought it'd price from 400-600 dollars (USA) prior to its official pricing announcement.
We were all blown away when we saw the insanely cheap "$250" pricetag.
SO those who are saying this device is way overpriced are stupid. And really greedy.
The PSP started out at that same price, and nobody complained. We thought that was the right pricing, while we thought that the Vita's 250 pricetag was insanely cheap.
Now I do agree on one thing:
The memory sticks need a drastic price drop.
If you don't have enough money at some point in your life to fork over 250 dollars for a vita, then you should really look into grabbing some welfare...
I don't think the price itself is the problem. It's a very capable machine. The problem is it needs more unique gaming experiences. Games that you need a PS Vita to experience. The best thing it's getting now is ports of PS3 IP's, which if you aren't a huge fan is a bit same same.
depending on the ps4 launch price the vita might need a price drop to justify the ps4 price that might be what sony is waiting for.
a price cut would only lead Sony to leak even more money since they are already selling the system at a loss. For them to recoup some of that after the cut the system would have to start selling lots and lots of software and who can guarantee that that would happen?
If the price-cut only increases the sales for a while and then starts selling at the same or maybe a slightly faster pace things are only gonna get worse than they already are.