"Even if the company has stated that it’s fine with the Vita’s sales numbers, no one can deny it’s underperforming compared to the Nintendo 3DS. Despite better specs and a wide range of games, the 3DS has managed to outsell it. Whether or not the Vita has a price that is too expensive is still a mystery, but we should find out very soon if it’s the lack of a solid IP that’s keeping the PS Vita from selling. This convention revealed many different things about Sony, and most of them reflected positively on the company—which might be just what it needs to save the Vita from living in the shadow of its competitor." | Explosion.com
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When it comes to advertising, Sony just sucks at it, people who think that good conferences and new games can change the future of the system are so wrong, Apple is not big because their products are great, it's because their *promote* their products as "the best" and people eat that like candy, that's the only trick
@sikbeta: Name one major technology product that was a success BECAUSE of advertising. I'd love to see you try because, honestly, I can't think of one. It's nice to make the product stay in people's minds and sway people on the fence but I've never ever seen a high tech product that was struggling go from failure to success because of advertising.
If you are going to drop $200-$250 on a handheld gaming console most consumers will do at least a little bit of market research. That's out of most people's impulse buy range.
At this point, Sony's best investment into the Vita would be:
1. Funding new in-house game development
2. Funding killer firmware development for new system features, etc.
3. Subsidizing ridiculous memory card prices.
hmmmm...
Lbp, assassin creed3, tekkenxstreetfighter, fifa13, madden13, Nfs, playstation all stars, Blackops, radnarok odissey, persona4....
la Vita bella
(Life is beautiful)
Its far too early to tell what the future holds for the Vita, but I'm sure Sony has a long term plan for the console, they aren't just going to stop supporting it. They would risk losing the loyalty of long time fans, kind of the way that Sega lost brand loyalty when they kept releasing add-on's and then dropped support for them.
So I think its a long term handheld and these articles looking for hits need to stop.
But with Sony's first party cross play announcment it has become more attractive. But still to have the Vita more expensive than an actual PS3 is still a turn off to many.
Here's hoping for a good turn around.
Bless their little fashionable souls
They should should just rename it speculation for imbeciles and be done with it.
Sony + a month of no exclusive title release = SAID CONSOLE IS DEAD!!!!!!!
That or sales numbers and Sony isn't listed as number one in every territory.
It's a never ending cycle that shouldn't even be bothered with. Sadly though people are too stubborn, they get their nerves hit and start defending the Vita, thus garnering the site a hit.
It's all very complicated and it sucks to have to see these type of articles every day here on N4G.
They need to regulate the opinion piece articles a bit more steeply, because right now the current system of reports isn't really working.
I want COD on the system as much as the next guy, but that game sucking is going to do a lot of harm......lets hope it doesn't suck as bad as we all think.
The annual drought of games is about to come to an end and Vita sales will start increasing when the games start rolling in again soon.