Last week’s official Japanese sales figures are in and once again the Nintendo 3DS has stamped its authority as the number one games system in Japan at the moment. We already knew courtest of Satoru Iwata that Animal Crossing had sold over 600,000 copies but the hardware figures are just as impressive...
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3DS is your choice if you just want to play 1st party decades old rehashed IP's. If you want adult games and more new surprising IP's then PSVita is the way to go.
A gamer plays games, not sales.
And yes I have all 3 systems but give respect where it's due.
is a subjective term. had you gone on to express why you feel its better would make more sense. Generalizing like that is somewhat pointless.
Appeal is different to everyone and as such there is no better or worse when it comes to personal preference.
Besides, it's all just preference anyway, what does it matter? I have a Vita, but would love to grab up a 3DS at some point. :]
I think you mean at 46:1s preference
ZIIIIIIIING!!!
GameBoy with a green screen put down all challengers Lynx, TurboExpress and GameGear
GBA put down NeoGeo pocket and NGage
DS put down PSP
3DS is putting down Vita
You would have thought Sony would have learned from everyone else's mistake and realized superior tech doesn't matter
Its stupid to think that the power of a console will determine how good it will be
Indeed. And currently, the 3DS has a much greater, bigger and more extensive game library, which makes it the choice of many.
The Vita's good, yes, but it really needs moar gaemz.
The Vita sold 4,000 units last week. It's November. So you can call what you want rubbish. But literally no one is buying it..lol.
Bravely Default 38/40 famitsu
Animal Crossing: New Leaf 39/40 famitsu
EX troopers: 3DS scored higher than PS3 version!
Rubbish? Your brain is rubbish!
So am I sticking with my 3DS? The answer is yes.
Kid Icarus was far and away the best handheld this year.. I easily sunk 60+ hours into it between single and multiplayer.
Also Resident Evil Revelations was excellent, is at least a 10hr game.
And I put in 100 hrs in Ragnarok Odyssey =/
Which is why the 3Ds is selling so well; it has the games.
And you know what? When compared to the PS3, SO DID THE WII.
IMO the Wiis library is pretty poor compared to the 360 and PS3 due to the lack of many great multi platform games.Like dishonored for example.
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Any Mario game is a big seller
Monster hunter 3 & 4
Shin megami tensi IV
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Animal crossing
Kingdom heart DDD
Ace attorney 5
Ace attorney X professor Layton
Final fantasy theatrhythm
And the inevitable Pokemon game and much more and you people WONDER why its massivley outselling the vita in Japan?
Lol bashing the 3ds library then going in another article defending black ops declassified! What a joke...
Take a look at this years VGA's handheld games category. 3 Vita games and only 1 3DS game.
Sound Shapes and Gravity Rush are easily the best handheld games of the year but no one seems to care.
Jesus... fanboys here are ridiculous...
Besides any gamer worth their salt knows that PSWii > PS360.
Thats why nintendo made tons of money and has a comfortable position on the market and sony is almost brake. Sales is not important, it is NECESSARY if you want to survive the market.
"3DS is your choice if you just want to play 1st party decades old rehashed IP's. If you want adult games and more new surprising IP's then PSVita is the way to go. "
Yep I prefer play 5 years old bad ports 1st party as Uncharted, Resistance, Killzone, LBP... LOL
"A gamer plays games, not sales. "
I agree, sony financial situation not
"Yep I prefer play 5 years old bad ports 1st party as Uncharted, Resistance, Killzone, LBP... LOL "
Hmmm ... So are mario and pokemon and not only 5 years ...
And sony is not making games for 30 yrs.
Just wait more 5 yrs and we will see something like uncharted 10 and LBP 7, they milk their best-sellers just as nintendo does, the problem is, their ports are bad, while portable nintendo mario and zelda,etc are fantastic fun
It's like saying Peanut Butter sold better than Xbox360.
No kidding.
Too bad sales numbers directly related to how many games a system gets per year and are obviously related to the developer interest.
Gamers play games so why would you make such dumb comments about rubbish, adult games etc? surely a true gamer who plays games can see the positive and flaws in any system and not limit themselves to one system, and if they did they would not make such immature, angry comments.
Gamers do play games which is why it is outselling the Vita which is a good system but clearly it's not offering them the experience or games people are looking for just as the psp was games from your ps2. why buy two of the same game?
Additionally, dont make a handheld and price it higher than your console.
stop being a cry baby. nintendo won this gen, sony won last gen.
lets see who wins next gen
Wii 97.18 million
360 70.00 million
PS3 68.31 million
Also the 360, and PS3 continue to gain on the Wii. When it is all said, and done they will finish much closer to the Wii then people expect; especially the PS3 which WILL pass the 360.
Troll...I would take those rehash games over your Vita exclusives any day.
"Vita is superior tech but Sony is failing to support it properly"
how exactly is it superior? it's not like the ds whatever vita can do 3ds cam do better.
Japanese games are rubbish most of the time, not impressed with the 3ds library at all.
The problem is 3rd party developers are not getting games for Vita until it sells more, but Vita cannot sell without the games. And cut the price on the Vita as well ( especially.those overpriced memory cards) . Sony is trying despite financial troubles, but they cannot do it alone. More developers need to get behind the PS Vita...
Look at what Ninty did with the DS, once the 3DS was released. They stopped supporting the DS. Sony needs to make the same decision. This 10 year life cycle support thing may be showing its drawbacks. The Vita after all is their present and future product and not the PSP.
Of course, I don't know anyone that owns a maserati either and I see Honda Civic's everywhere, but I don't read into that that Maserati's in trouble and Honda Civic's are the only way to go. Not saying you're saying that. Just sayin'.
Not saying you're saying that. Just sayin'
Also the price to develop a game on ps3 and 360 was too high compared to Wii with last gen graphics (Ps2 like).
Less dev time and higher console count = larger profit.
The whole too expensive to develop was BS. They can't develop MH for ps3 yet they did 2 Resident Evils about 6 fighting games, Dragons Dogma, Lost Planet, Devil May Cry among others. Humm kind of weird don't you think.
Now that the 3DS is dominating the VITA suddenly they aren't competing handhelds anymore? Suddenly VITA exists on some higher out of reach plain on it's own?? Gimme a break!
I never said those were the only cars in the world. But I bet ford escorts sold a lot more cars than lambos, but which one is the better car? That was my point. Just because one item does better in sales does'nt mean its a better product. Imagine in hard economic times everyone goes to the cheaper solution for on the go gaming, however people like me choose to invest the extra into more powerful and overall better equiptment because I value quality over cheap and easy. And honestly nintendo and sony have never really been pointed to the same demographic. Nintendo aims at children tween and the casual gamer. Sony and microsoft aim for older demographics and adults, who generally require more sophisticated hardware to be impressed. So I feel my comparison is pretty valid.
@jamieL
Sorry about your accident . I ride too thats gotta suck. but nobody asked which one was better. I know which one is better its just not the one that sells the best. I understand they are in competition but it seems rediculous to me to because its like comparing apples to oranges. DS sells better because its cheaper and more well known, thats the bottom line really. That doesnt equate to its the better of the two.
Would a DSLR vs a digital camera be a better analogy?
One of the major problems with the Vita is that Sony still haven't figured out what they want the Vita to be. The people who buy a 3ds knows exactly what they're buying into and the type of support they're getting.
The Vita is superior to the 3ds in so many ways with a lot of potential, but Sony don't know how to properly support it or convince 3rd party devs to commit.
The games are stellar
It needs a price cut
3ds after price cut " wow it outselling ps3, vita, Xbox"
Ill say this, vita price cut that = 3ds current price would kill the 3ds.
One more thing ... I've noticed that this is the only time people compare the vita and 3ds. When they review or talk about upcoming games they NEVER compare them. Vita gets compared to ps3 or Xbox. 3ds get compared toooooo nothing really just a review of the game or whatever.
Why is that? I need an answer post haste.
And as to your question: game reviewers review games as they are. Those vita games(the ones that are reviewed poorly) are inferior or smaller packet samples of console games. They are directly modeled after them and not well enough to stand beside them, which is why they receive low scores. The platform has nothing to do with it and shouldn't anyway.
just a thought
Also ss4? Mario? Kingdom hearts? These are console game that couldn't stand side by side with its console. Strangely ss4 gotta 8.9 for 3ds on ign but SFxT gets a 6??? Vitas take on porting sf was far beyond 3ds but the scores are far off. At the end of the day they are competing handhelds (I love them both btw) and while 3ds has a head start the vita is more advanced than the system. If they lower the price it will compete no question.
I would have to disagree. While i understand the thought behind your point you seem to miss out on a very important aspect. 3ds has what the vita does not. direct play for bc titles.
while it may not be the intention for someone to buy into a new system to play old games, you cant deny the benefit it offers. Vita and Bc is purely digital and for someone like myself who has a psp and a slew of UMD games, it offers me nothing in that regard.
As someone like me who also has a ds the 3ds can play my library of games just fine. a price cut would certainly spark interest but the overall problem sony is facing is managing multiple platforms at the same time.
If anything, nintendo has the ds and 3ds which the 3ds would likely outpace the ds. We are seeing the 3ds sales increase because it can do what the ds does AND more. We could see a similar trend with the wii-u but that is still to be determined.
So in my view, sony is like sega. Sega had at one time 6 platforms on the market AT THE SAME TIME. That was increasingly difficult to support. Sony right now has 4 which they really should change their focus to the only top 2 that are the ones they want to move forward (PS3 and vita).
They just dont know when enough is enough or more importantly, how to price things like digital psp games to be more disposable to people as an incentive to get the vita. The new ps+ will have some effect on the sales but we still will have the issue of them competing with themselves by continuing to support platforms that are past their prime.
Ninty has been entrenched in the market for decades, that its automatic for people to buy their handheld gaming devices by just brand knowledge alone.
@darthv72
I agree with your statement about Sony supporting a product that is well past its prime. Continuing to support the PSP is hurting the Vita, especially in Japan. I think Sony believes they can do a PS2-PS3 scenario were the PS2 sold for years after the PS3 was released before dropping off. They should realize that the situation of the PSP-PSV is different. Very different.
And while the vita has minis and psp/ps1 games, the 3ds has several vc and eshop exclusives as well. Along with FULL backwards compatibility with all we games.
So yes, the Vita has far fewer games. Wether you like them is a matter of opinion, but that is the truth; the 3Ds has a much larger library
People keep saying the Vita needs more games, but I bought four Vita games in the past two weeks. Also, PS Plus comes to Vita next week. Again, give me more reasons to keep my 3DS Nintendo. You're doing a great job of selling your system, but as a gamer, I'm more interested in playing video games.
Is that so hard to do?
Has anyone seen that 3DS commercial that featured that fashion designer and at the end of the commercial, she says her name and that "She's not a gamer, but with her 3DS, she can style all she want". What I'm saying is, so far I'm seeing some shovelware being released on the 3DS as of now and that Nintendo is doing the same tactics as they did for the DS. Sony on the other hand is trying to cater towards the hardcore still, but there are some titles that cater towards the casual gamer, but mostly the "real gamers" are getting in on a treat with the Vita.
And you're seeing shovelware? Yet I'm seeing a ton of variety that made the DS very popular. 3DS has a large share of hardcore titles also. So the "real" gamers are also getting treated on the 3DS.
I find your statement funny, you're seeing some shovelware on the 3ds but on the Vita you only see some titles that cater to the casual gamer. Interesting how that works.
Then again I guess you only see what you want to see.