forbes.com: The mobile ecosystem is awash with applications and games. Wherever you turn there are high quality applications available, many either free or at the 79p mark. Turn to the launch titles of the PS Vita, and you find titles like Uncharted Golden Abyss going for £45, Wipeout 2048 and Lumines at £35, and the ‘feeling like a tech demo’ Little Deviants for £18.
One game for the PS Vita, or over 55 games for your iPhone. That’s not a tough call to make.
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Everything else? Really?
Screw you Forbes.
Lets look at the everything else.
1. 3DS
2.Economy
3. Marketing
4.Tablets/Smart phone(also damaged the 3ds sales)
5. Consumer mentality undergoing a huge paradigm shift.
6. Price of the Vita
Name one of these six factors that was taking sides with the Vita.
It really was everything else. The Vita somehow became the enemy of the entire electronic entertainment industry.
Competition, economic downturn, the ever changing tastes of consumers, advertising, word of mouth, initial price point etc.
The robots on N4G can beat their chest like King Kong and scream as loud as Mel Gibson in Braveheart about how great the Vita is, but that doesn't change the fact that its currently struggling due to these other factors.
If you want more support for Vita, then you MUST care about sales. Period. The bigger Vita's install base, the more willing devs will be to support it.
People confuse value with just the price, but it is actually multiple factors (such as usefulness, features, perceived sexyness and so on) combined with the price.
Sorry PS Vita, drop the price *NOW* and get some more quality games out as soon as possible. Right now, it is cementing it's reputation as the PSP did as a dead end platform, but this time just worse. After all, it is the second time!
Most handheld games are 1000 times better than anything on iOS.
Too bad casuals and non-gamers don't see it that way.
Live my iPhone but the games suck compared to my vita
i know someone will change it just to make fun of me lol
Even though it's an island , all the country's are against it because of interests , that's why it's different , it's the most peaceful one in middle east , it have best protests , it have good reasons for every act they do , so if it win the rights to it's land it will spread to saudia / qatar / imarat ..etc , it's the reason that saudia have protests now so imagine if we put down the dictator , it will be huge ^^ , saudia brought their army to stop it and gave the dictator money to buy more weapons , that's how we know it's dangerous for them ..
This revolution showed the real faces of the governments and people who care about their wallets more then people , This is one of the huge protests last year :
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
This is Forbes , a highly respectable magazine. They know their sh*t when it comes to video games and technology. Suck it Ninty fanboys , Vita wins 2012 and will win 2013. All the haters can GTFO.
Long Live Play
If these media journalist take off their fanboy glasses than they will realize that despite not having a system seller which the Vita currently does not have, the system has a lot of very high quality games.
I do not care how much an iphone game costs. Persona 4 Golden, Gravity Rush, LBP Vita are worth their price point. Heck i would pay $60 or more for Persona 4 alone. I would rather have 100+ hours of entertainment than 5 mins of an iphone game.
It's like having sex....would you rather enjoy yourself for hours or have a quicky that is a waste of time?
As for Forbes comparing the Vita to the iphone is a joke & just proves the lazy ass gaming journalism that we currently have. A gamer like me can care less what is on the iphone cause i do not care about gaming on it.
Thats the problem right there. The way you and I think is different from the way the majority of casuals think. To them, every portable gaming console is the same. I had a PSP for two years and my parents never stopped calling it a Gameboy.
The sad reality is that mobile games on smartphones DO take revenue away from products such as the 3DS/Vita. Most would rather pay $1 or $0 for a fun, yet shallow mobile game than $40 on a deep, rewarding, and immersive experience. If smartphone gaming didn't exist, you could bet ur ass the Vita would be doing better right now.
As a gamer, u SHOULD be caring. Companies shape they're future endeavors on current trends. If the mobile gaming craze continues, say bye to hardcore handheld consoles in the future due to a lack of a market for them.
Because the 3ds has done well this year. The vita has not. And the story seems to be about the vitas current market struggle.(I would actually read it, but... I've seen dozens of these stories and discussions already. @_@
That quote of "One game for your Vita, or 55 games for your iphone", what is the point of then? It is the price of the system not the price of the games that for the most part is holding the Vita back from public acceptance.
Even Nintendo misjudged the public when they first priced the 3DS. Credit to them for cutting the price of the 3DS cause they can afford to cause the 3DS we all know does not have the specs & hardware as the Vita.
So yeah the Vita is struggling for market acceptance. However we do not know what will occur if/when the price cut happens. If it still continues to struggle after such price cut than yes the Vita is a failure. But by any chance it sells as well as the 3DS after its price cut are we still gonna see these articles?
Just cause the Vita is struggling it makes it an easy target for these negative articles. It was the same for the PS3, the same with the Wii U & do you know what it is getting to be like a broken record & pretty much a copout for these journalist.
the PSVita is made for REAL gaming not cheap phone games.
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That's...
Vita:
13 full Vita games.
11 PSP games.
27 Minis
17 PS1 games.
Phone:
Cut The Rope, Minecraft PE, and GTA III
iPod:
Cut The Rope, all Angry Birds games, Save Toshi DX, Cover Orange, Scribblenauts
Yep. I think I'm sticking with my Vita.
Is a very good piece of hardware. Slick, sleek and has a very clear crisp screen.
For what ever reason, its market performance is lacking, some may point to price, and I'm sure that can be a factor, but I think more damning is the way Vita was marketed as a PS3 in your hand, rather than a handheld portable gaming system.
It is a vicious cycle, because hardware isn't selling well and neither can software when the installed base is so low. Sony is going to have to be the ones to provide hardware pushing software as third parties don't seem to be taking to the system.
Shame. We will see what the coming year brings.