Arbitern1 wrote:Psp and the vita both have had allot of problems with games. Aside from the oodles of RPGs that came out later in the psps lifespan I would have called it a waste of money. Sony just needs to give up. Forfeit the market to Nintendo. The market is over saturated for handheld devices. Nintendo has a much stronger line up with games with the 3DS and has really taken off.
I don't understand the logic of "you won't ever be Nintendo, so don't try." The PSP has sold over 70 million units. Granted, that's half of what the DS sold, but it is closing in on the number of units the GBA (all models) sold. Would you say the GBA was a "waste of money"? It is possible to be profitable and worthwhile and not be #1. And the DS or 3DS having a "stronger lineup" than the PSP or Vita? That's debatable...FWIW Metacritic disagrees on the most recent handhelds. The 3DS has 22 games averaging higher than an 80 on the site while the Vita, which came out about a year later, already has 18 ranked higher than 80. I realize Metacritic isn't the end-all be-all of evaluating games, but it is a reasonable way to get a snapshot of the strength of a system's library. And the numbers there suggest that your claim of a "much stronger lineup" for the 3DS is bullshit.
This console needs a price drop or it will sink. I'll buy it in the 99$ bargain bins 3 years from now when it's accumulated more than 10 great exclusives.
There's nothing wrong with being a late adopter. You can of course pick it up when it gets a price drop. All systems eventually get one anyway, but I bet it will be 4-5 years before you find it approaching $100 in a bargain bin or anywhere else. I've already demonstrated it has more than 10 "great" games (about half of that 18 I mentioned above are system exclusives), so I don't really see "no good games" as a legitimate reason to wait.
Fuck Sony. No company should be able to fuck stuff up as badly as the vita release/ps3 release and come back ok. I just don't understand it. I guess that's what deep pockets allow you to do.
Now we get to the heart of it. I probably shouldn't have wasted my time responding to you as you are clearly arguing based on your own bizzare and unfounded interpretation of Sony's PS business model. Sony's gaming division has continued to be profitable for decades by pretty much doing the same things they are doing now. Every time they release new hardware people complain it is too pricey and not well positioned. In the long run - which is the game they play - they always have had the last laugh. That's not "fucking stuff up badly," it's repeating a proven model. There's a lot of reason already to think that the Vita will be another example of this...
