GenGAME writes: "Sony’s banking a lot on the holiday season as a big effort to boost PS Vita’s alarmingly slow sales performance. They pretty much spelled it out themselves when they asked people not to write it off before it went through its first Christmas.
"Naturally, we feel that if Sony’s telling us not to judge them before the holidays, then they’re inviting us to judge them after the holidays – so if they’re hoping to turn Vita into a high-selling gamer magnet, they’d better do it soon."
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The uneducated masses will always have another moronic, baseless, biased opinion to share.
On the bright side wishing for failure does does equate it. No doubt the OP will squirt another doom article out of his rectum in the near future, and the horseflies will gather to click.
Doesn't especially sound like the OP is "wishing for failure"
I wasn't specifically referring to the OP but, yeah, I'm going to politely guide you a few posts down from mine, to where someone hasn't listed a retrospective of the OP' articles.
His attempts to be subtle are frankly hilarious. I liken it to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad starting a speech with "I love Israel and it's people, but....".
2 weeks ago sony and Games uk have started a nationwide promotion
Psvita wifi + fifa13+ lbpvita+ uncharted for a ridiculous low price of 229.00
And yet the sales went down by 17% from the weeks before that.
On top of that sony has really step up their marketing campaign. You can,t miss it on tv or online.
They was a bundle with LBP for £189.00 and yet lbp sold about 37000 units.
2 things i noticed that sony might be doing wrong and again in my humble opinion, it s who they market the vita for
All commercials are filled with 20 year old+ people Sorry sony, you should market it to the 12+ because nowadays, tbey are the majority of dedicated handheld consumer.
You don,t have to believe me, you just have to look around when you re in the subway or bus to see who actually play with a psp, 3ds or vita.
The second thing is they need to stop advertising multiplat games for ps3 and vita in the same advert without even showing any vita gameplay. Vita games should have their very own advert.
They advertise assassin creed 3 for both ps3 and vita without actually explaining that the vita version is a completely different game.
And on top of that they launch at the same time.
That is, and i m sorry to say just plain stupid.
Because if i have to choose i will always go for the ps3 version first especially if i don,t even know that the vita version is a different game
(Example :assassin creed revelation, blackopsdeclassified, nfs, fifa)
I understand there might be an buget issue by promoting that way, but still.
I am not the negative type and i believe sony can still do something about it
Are you serious right now? If there aren't enough Vita's sold, then 3rd party developers have no incentive to make games for it because chances of them turning a profit would be smaller. If they don't have incentive, they don't make the games. If they don't make the games, Vita owners don't get the games. See how that works?
If you have a Vita, play it, buy the games you can buy, and shut up. Plain and simple. Let Sony worry about it when they have to.
I just want to AWA a few weeks ago and EVERYBODY had a 3DS(12-any age you can thing of). The Vita needs commercials that targets everybody, a price drop next year, and better games.
with this triple-A trio the Vita is going to rock;
add to that the excellent LBP:V and U:GA,
the serviceable annual sports: Madden, FIFA and MLB:TS,
the AAA fighters: MK, MvC, SFxT,
the AAA JRPGS: P4:G, Ragnarok,
the other Sony franchises: R:BS, MNR, W2048,
the exclusive games: Escape plan, Gravity Rush, Soul Sacrifice,
many other games, bigger and smaller,
and finally the PSP library as well as PS1 classics,
and we get the most COMPLETE lineup for the first year of a console EVER,
but that want stop the ANTY SONY LOOM, GLOOM, and BASHING thats been going on every year for the last 6 years
So... When you played Uncharted 1 on the PS3 did you refuse to buy Uncharted 2 and 3 because you already had that experience? It's the same with LBP, Assassins Creed and COD. What is the difference between playing a sequel/prequel on another console, to playing it on the same console?
Yes, I know you have to buy the Vita to play that sequel/prequel, but that is not the angle you are taking. All of those games I mentioned will not be and will never be on the PS3, so you are missing out on great games just because you are under the impression that they are in some way 'ports' when in fact they are actually 'The same franchise with completely different stories'.
You don't.
So, just shut up, and see how it goes rather than making pointless, biased articles.
3DS I'm still a bit concerned about because the next round of games looks a lot like portable GameCube games instead of portable N64 games.
PSV is trying to be a portable PS3 right now, and judging by that strategy being not very effective for the last round of handhelds, I'm just not confident it'll succeed this year by any stretch of the word.
I still think Sony has time to turn things around and truly differentiate PSV. This is only the initial year of software for the system; it's pretty common for a system to take a little longer than that to establish a solid identity.
Dual sticks and Sixaxis puts the Vita in a class by itself IMO.
Ok its not try to be, the fact that this is not only wrong but the term keeps getting used has no weight at all right now based on the fact this talking point against the PSVita is not even close to being right. Unlike the PSP the PSVita is not developed for the same market as the PSP was. No this is one of the things over looked with this talking point. for one the PSP does not have the Playstation Mobile platform on its hardware.
The PSP does not have an basic licence fee for development that started out for $99.00 let alone allows you to use the over the counter PSVita as a debug machine! The PSVita is designed as you would a smartPhone not the way the PSP was designed.
that is the very core problem in only looking at the past as an indication of how this will play out. Sony does not need the PSVita to be first, it needs it to be another choice for consumers to choose from than just only one dedicated Game handheld out there. Made only by Nintendo!
The simple fact is Sony is not just relying on a dedicated Game handheld to sell Games on for playstation as a platform, smartphones are gaining market strength by sheer number's, Sony knows this first hand with xperia- smartphones selling over 7.4 million units a sales Quarter.
Sony views the PSvita as yet another playstation Platform that can play playstation Games on that they can sell more playstation content to their platform consumers, Not being 1st does not mean that its any less viable as an option.
its not a sprint that matters its the support for the long haul that does.
(unless it's actually been compatible this whole time... nothing I've read has suggested as much)
I own a 3ds and psv and really enjoy them both but games like lbp vita and resistance bs with there online support add abit extra to the games.
Sonys biggest problem is they dont show off there products they way microsoft and nintendo do. Because of this they have sliped into 3rd place as the playstation brand is not as strong as sony thought it was.
I see sony dropping the psv price and memmory card price after Christmas. Im not sure if it will be to late for the psv then but if sony start pushing it with a price drop it will pickup sales.
I said at the start that the 3ds will out sell the ds total sales and the psv will out sell the psp total sales and i still see them doing this.
I also see sony changing things with there next gen home console. I see them putting more into 3rd party support like they did with the psx and ps2 as well as push on creating an image for them selfs with lbp and sack boy as sony dont really have a face to its console like microsoft have halo and master chief and nintendo have mario.
People seem to forget that sony were backed heavy by 3rd party in the last 2 gens for exclusive games and microsoft pulled that away from them this gen and thats why we have seen so many new ips this gen.
Sony can pull things around but they do have alot of work to get there again.
I just don't see a massive turnaround without a price cut, or some truly UNIQUE content.
Tearaway should be a boost next year. That game almost has me wanting a Vita.
Vita had a great lineup and good games are still kicking on it every month. Battle Royale, Ratchet and many more coming soon...
Ragnarok Odyssey, AC:L and P4G with a cross buy on ASBR I think it is decent. Not the strongest ever seen. But It will survive, and get some strong games.
They just spewing repetative bs over and over again like they run out of topics or something. I recommend this guy to find another hobby.
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@KMROC Yeah thankfully they didnt enter and you didnt lose $ with your stock in MS...
is many times you always hear something like this about Nintendo and their platforms, it looks like Sony is now getting the same treatment, so when in a few years time the death of the PSVita may not happen than what? will this all be swept under the rug? will people still keep saying this or move on to the next Sony or Nintendo product to grace the store shelf space and the next self fulfilling prophecy continue?
@ joeorc. Nah. If the VITA ends up succeeding people will just constantly boomerang back to the bad times or talk about how it didn't really succeed or how it didn't sell as much as the 3DS. It never ends dude. Success or failure someone will always find something negative to say.
"This why am glad MS did not attempt to enter the handheld market. but wonder how they would have fared in it."
they are entering the Handheld market, just the fact like the PDA market Microsoft does not really make Hardware they makes software "for" Hardware. That has always been their Way before many times they use outside hardware companies, to which they than make software for that component. But Microsoft did not really make the hardware themselves. Now that is slowly changing Microsoft has invested in Hardware production for Microsoft devices in China. So Microsoft are slowly investing into self production components. But since Windows Phone and Smart Glass are created to provide a unified platform for Xbox integration into the platform stack, Microsoft really are entering the market. Having a dedicated Game Hand Held today is while a large market, is no where near as big as the smart devices market which has the lions share of the market. Nintendo and Microsoft and Sony all see this.
Micrsoft really does not need a dedicated hardware for mobile devices for 1) their 1st party is mainly for office and other software development aside from games. and 2) all their xbox game developments are just for a single platform for games aside from Windows, they pretty much have their hands full just with Xbox and PC and Kinect and Windows Phone and Tablet Windows 8/RT. Having yet another Platform while would be awesome, i doubt Microsoft really see's a need for it. Windows Phone and Windows 8/RT is their game handheld platform's.
stop approving these garbage articles, and stop clicking on them.
For sure the day they release a GoW game for Vita is the day I'll definitely buy it.
Find my nose drawn to your avatar BTW/
I don;t understand why different manufacturers get held to different standards.
Vita is a high end gaming device. I have one and can say first hand how awesome a piece of hardware it is. Nothing this good will fail. Patience is a virtue that people today under 20 years of age do not possess I suppose.
Vita sold 2 million since December last year til June. That 2.5 million is from March til June. If you count in 3DS sales in Japan from December through to February then you'll see that the 3DS has sold alot more than the VITA.
You don't have one and you're all upset.
Maybe mommy will buy you one for xmas, man. Settle down.
You can always play some Mario until you get a real handheld.
Soul Sacrifice, Street Fighter X Tekken, Silent Hill Book of Memories, Persona 4, Tearaway, World Rally Championship 3, NFS Most Wanted, AC3: Liberations, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Ragnarok Odyssey.
The future looks bright to me for the Vita.
It is amusing they always talk about their financial status but let's not mention Sony bought out Gaikai for $380 million. They have to be hurting right?
The Vita also gets Playstation Plus in November, so if you don't want one shame on you.
:)