ReviewLagoon:
Recently, GoNintendo posted an article mentioning that everyone was happy to call the Nintendo 3DS an initial “failure” and were thrilled to write stories and blog posts about “Nintendo is Doomed” – but the article asked why there aren’t any “Vita is Doomed” articles.
I am answering the call.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki and CFO Lin Tao talked about the state of the PlayStation business and the strategy and targets going forward, including how they're responding to the tariffs.
Sony announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2024, and things are certainly looking up, despite a decline in PS5 sales.
If their profits fall next quarter, we'll probably see more price hikes. I can't imagine having to pay £20 a month for PlayStation Plus.
Decline in hardware sales.
Behind on lifetime sales and decline in first party sales.
Third party content and PSN came through to save the day.
Things will improve starting with the next Ghost game.
Hopefully a steady flow of first party content by end of '25
Are you stupid or something or are you just looking for attention? There are plenty of anti VITA and 'VITA is doomed articles'. What planet are you from?
I just like the idea of a console in my hand. You have more depth and the horse power that power house can run is crazy awesome. Whether you are Nintendo Fan boy or a neutral gamer in handhelds you have to agree the quality is in Vita not 3DS. The 3DS is better only because of games...thats sad.
They also said the PSP was doomed. That's a fantastic portable console with great games
Author starts off the article stating that he hates Nintendo and Sony looool wtf? Not reading your bias opinion then
I often wonder how much articles that discuss the "doom" of a console contribute to that very doom. If no one wrote them would the console do better?
Seems like puclicity like this just puts ideas in peoples heads that a console is failing more than it actually is (or isn't at all), I mean I know the Vita isn't doing great at the moment, but I fully intend to buy one once I get enough money together, there are a lot of forthcoming games I'm looking forward to on it.