Code:3DS 2,075,596 PS3 440,221
As you can see, the PS3 is absolutely crushing the 3DS and dominating the attention of every Japanese publisher.
Here are some charts that help prove this.
It should be obvious to everyone that the PS3 shall continue its domination well into 2018, as the opportunity cost of switching to a new platform is simply too high.
Code:3DS 2,075,596 PS3 440,221
As you can see, the PS3 is absolutely crushing the 3DS and dominating the attention of every Japanese publisher.
Here are some charts that help prove this.
It should be obvious to everyone that the PS3 shall continue its domination well into 2018, as the opportunity cost of switching to a new platform is simply too high.
Out of curiousity, what would you do? I'm not thinking about "dropping the price" etc., but how would you do it to begin with? Might be easier to say in hindsight, but i'm still curious.
Eh, I think at most you would've seen more 3DS/Vita multiplatform games. Third parties still would've expected 3DS to outsell Vita, and still wouldn't have been eager to jump to HD budgets with their portable efforts.
12:31:11.46Thanks for the answer
Backward compability with an UMD drive would make the unit bigger. How much would this affect the sales? I ment hindsight as in if Vita (or any system for that matter) ended up being successful from the start, i dont think you would use these arguements.
That is a conspiracy theory alright
I wouldn't bee too sure about Layton vs AA. Layton 5 never hit half a million, and AA can barely hit 300k.
As you can see, the PS3 is absolutely crushing the 3DS and dominating the attention of every Japanese publisher.Code:<pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 6px; border: 1px inset; width: 640px; height: 50px; text-align: left; overflow: auto">3DS 2,075,596 PS3 440,221
Here are some charts that help prove this.
It should be obvious to everyone that the PS3 shall continue its domination well into 2018, as the opportunity cost of switching to a new platform is simply too high.
Really, Vita's job was done once Kaz got to present it along with his new position as president of Sony. Any possible success of the system would have just been a bonus.
BTW, if you want some conspiracy theories here's one to take with a pound of salt:
131 It's＠名無しさん sage 2012/09/30(日
撤退戦どうしようかって頭悩ませてるのに次とかｗ
あとこれは電波だから聞き流して欲しいけど
小売りさんは今後リアル店頭での予約にも気をつけた方がいいよ
ネットでは以前からあったけど、人使えばリアル店舗でもいけるって言い出してる
もうねなんでもありですわ
from the SCE thread @ 2ch Sony forum.
"...This is just some random airwaves being transmitted from my head, but retailers better be careful of in-store preorders. We've been doing it online, but if you use enough people they're saying it's possible in real stores too. Anything goes nowadays..."
The general assumption is that they're talking about preordering for an item and cancelling just prior to shipment. Preorders of Sony-owned Aniplex animes over at Amazon earlier this year required users enter words in those "I'm not a bot" systems, presumably because empty preorders were being processed in a mass scale. Retailers in Japan cannot return stock to suppliers, so there's potential for no-money-down preorders to be used to Sony's benefit. Sony's known for more or less destroying a market when it pulls out of one, and what better than ruining the lives of a bunch of retailers?
As ridiculous as this may sound, we're seeing this from the thread where Ueda's exile was mentioned at least half a year before it happened, and names such as Vita/Orbis spilled out months before it was confirmed by any other source. It may all be graffiti on the toilet stall, but some people are sick enough about their jobs to add some truth into all the nonsense.
Thanks for the answer
Which brand are you thinking of getting exclusive of? Would this be possible in the first place? Did Sony not try this?
Desiging it for $200 would mean that sacrifices would have to be made compared to how the current Vita is (also factor in that an UMD drive would cost some extra money too). Do you have any more detailed description on how you would design it? How much would these sacrifices affect the sales?
I ment hindsight as in if Vita (or any system for that matter) ended up being successful from the start, i dont think you would use these arguements.
The reason why I was arguing against hindsight is there's certain trends, and all trends pointed towards the Vita being unsuccessful if sony did not do certain things. Vita was not a wild card in any way shape or form outside of more power and inputs. There's nothing that stood out about it no risk. It was fairly easy to predict the Vita not doing well if Sony didn't do certain things.
I stand corrected. The original release wasn't so easy to find on garaph, it didn't have a translated title like all the others did.
Yep, i think that would be a good idea.
The PSP did actually have some trouble in the begining. There were prediction that the PSP LTD in Japan would be around 6-7 million if i remember correctly. Of course this wasnt just due to the UMD drive, but i do believe that some arguements were used against the UMD at this point. But in these days it shows that people dont care however, that is true.
Sure, software is the main reason for the sales indeed. But the hardware is also important. I'm not thinking that much about the ergonomics and making it much smaller, i'm thinking more about the screen size and build quality. The market can be unpredictable, and it there is so much competition with smartphones now, so it is hard to know exactly whats needed to make it big.
Really, Vita's job was done once Kaz got to present it along with his new position as president of Sony. Any possible success of the system would have just been a bonus.
BTW, if you want some conspiracy theories here's one to take with a pound of salt:
131 It's＠名無しさん sage 2012/09/30(日
撤退戦どうしようかって頭悩ませてるのに次とかｗ
あとこれは電波だから聞き流して欲しいけど
小売りさんは今後リアル店頭での予約にも気をつけた方がいいよ
ネットでは以前からあったけど、人使えばリアル店舗でもいけるって言い出してる
もうねなんでもありですわ
from the SCE thread @ 2ch Sony forum.
"...This is just some random airwaves being transmitted from my head, but retailers better be careful of in-store preorders. We've been doing it online, but if you use enough people they're saying it's possible in real stores too. Anything goes nowadays..."
The general assumption is that they're talking about preordering for an item and cancelling just prior to shipment. Preorders of Sony-owned Aniplex animes over at Amazon earlier this year required users enter words in those "I'm not a bot" systems, presumably because empty preorders were being processed in a mass scale. Retailers in Japan cannot return stock to suppliers, so there's potential for no-money-down preorders to be used to Sony's benefit. Sony's known for more or less destroying a market when it pulls out of one, and what better than ruining the lives of a bunch of retailers?
As ridiculous as this may sound, we're seeing this from the thread where Ueda's exile was mentioned at least half a year before it happened, and names such as Vita/Orbis spilled out months before it was confirmed by any other source. It may all be graffiti on the toilet stall, but some people are sick enough about their jobs to add some truth into all the nonsense.
If the Vita was as safe evolution of the PSP as you could possibly get, and seeing that the trend in Japan was that the PSP is very succesful, wouldnt this mean that the Vita should have a very good chance of succeed there from the start?
You really believe this? If there were tons of fake pre-orders, it would mean tons of unsold games. Price collapse would happen and investigations would start on why all these fake pre-orders were going on. And you being a veteran sales-ager, you know that Amazon pre-order ranking doesnt mean much for seeing actual sales numbers