Sony is in a less-than-desirable position right now, as outlined in a recent New York Times piece. Vita not exploding out of the gate is relatively low on the list of problems for the company, which hasn't turned a profit in years. But with new president and CEO Kaz Hirai recently pronouncing gaming as one of the pillars upon which Sony will turn things around, bigger things have to be expected from Vita. A middling success (if it can be called that) is not enough.
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Sales in Japan are concerning, this past week they dropped to their lowest at 8k, 3DS never went that low!
the vita isnt even half a year old
Army Corps of Hell is awesome, I don't know how it stack up to Pikmin tough, since I've never played that, but I'm at more than 10 hours of ACoH, and isn't even half done.
I were abit worried when I saw the trailer and imagined playing with the hardrock-music, all the time, but Vita has this nice custom music ability. :)
If Vita needs anything, it's love. Because a lot of people are missing out on the satisfaction of owning one.
It's a premium price tag in a relatively weak market right now.
If you meant to say in a weak economy, than I agree.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1...
In general, just about everything is hurting right now.
So far only Uncharted: GA is doing all the work in western territories. Wip3out does follow a strong suit but we need to get games like Gravity Rush and other unique quality titles to push the system further.
A price-cut would kill the Vita as SONY is barely making a profit with the current price. Blame Nintendo for over-pricing it's hardware from the start creating a false sense of "value" when the price-cut merely cut the bonus of what the system is worth. This is not the same case for the Vita.
That and the mandatory use of the memory-sticks will turn off some potential customers.
it just needs games right now.
the biggest problem that i think most would agree though is the cost of those memory cards, they're just a bit too expensive.
A - lose money
B - still wont catch nintendo (for the people who care all about sales)
c - cant keep up with a price war with nintendo because the vita costs more
make the price way below cost is done to become a loss leader they cant do that in this case they would just have a loss, no way they could catch a year ahead 3ds that is way cheaper to make.
Just an example: The price of games nowadays on 360/PS3 tend to drop really quick and it's not uncommon for a game that came out a month prior to be on sale for $20 bucks cheaper. But early in the PS3/360's lifecycle game prices didn't drop anywhere near as fast as they do now.
yes? no?
PS Vita's price is OK, all it needs is a bundle with 8GB memory card + game for 250 bucks.
If the VITA needs anything it's games that are reasonably priced. No one is going to buy a VITA and then want to spend £40 per game. If it had more games priced around £5 like Motorstorm RC then I think more people would be interested in buying it.
Also I wish the VITA had a rumble feature. I don't know why portable consoles never have this feature :(
Also it needs a Youtube app as soon as possible.
All is pretty awesome, 90%-80%+ games, if I were to give a review-score.
Except for Reality Fighters wich I didn't find as fun, and thus didn't get much playtime.
I also bought Hoard for the PSP, planning to buy God Eater Burst next.. :P
I'm also wanting most of the big upcoming games like Resistance, Silent Hill and Gravity Rush, MGS:Coll, and maybe Y's wich all is coming the next few months.
Also some interesting launch-games like Lumines, Fifa, and that gameloft hack'n slash, and maybe Rayman - but not buying at current price, especially when I have as many games, and hundreds of PSP-games to choose from.
To me personally, it has been by far the best launch I've seen, and are very happy with my buy. :)
People who complain about to few games are crazy.