Lol, this isn't a fairytale bro. What you just said is what you wish would happen.
Truth
So weird that this happens without a price, drop even after the competition got one, and with very few exclusives.
America = the world. Tough cookies
Because it wasn't selling as well as they'd hoped and good business sense dictates that if a strategy is simply not working you have to change it. It isn't rocket science.
Number One on wishlist but not Number One on buylist. This article is saying SONY is sitting on a potential gold mine, all they have to do is price it right. At least include a memory card and drop the prices of memory cards.
The Vita parts costs $160, shipping and assembly probably bring that up to $210 maybe, but nowhere near the loss that people were claiming SONY is making per Vita sold.
@below. Yeah no hey 5248d ago 8 agree20 disagreeView comment
You reckon the target audience watches the cartoon network. . . ? Mmkay.
hehehehe. . .this
I'd really like to know how saying xbox 360 owners buy more games in total and have a higher software attach rate equals PS3 selling more consoles. . ?
What did you expect from us? We like buying games.
Well then, this ought to be interesting.
Top 20 software Wii - 7 games (5 exclusives)
Xbox 360 - 6 games (2 exclusives)
PS3 4 games (1 exclusive)
Whatever happened to that fable that PS3 exclusives sell less because they are spread out? This chart shows xbox 360 software 8 million units ahead of PS3 software for 2011 and over 90 million ahead overall (maths never lies, ever!! Not even if there's a fire!)
In a year that PS3 had more games availa...
And now SONY have blown all the profit they made in the last 2 generation on the PS3. Yup.
"As of this Q by my calculations, the EDD has profited over $3.5b since FY 2008 when they started profiting on the X360, it's likely at this point that total X360 content has now made Microsoft a small profit, offsetting the early (rather large) losses and the RROD payout."
Just wanted to highlight that detail about xbox business, it is now 100% profitable. That's right, they have recouped all their losses since 360 launched and have now made a profit.
As impressive as it is from a financial point of view, it does not bode well for core 360 users hoping for more exclusives this year because Microsoft have just posted record sales and profits with just 3 core exclusives last year.
Looking over at SONY's side, they had a million exclusives and still Xbox business made a much higher profit than playstation business.
Why would Microsoft want to emulate SONY's exclusives strategy when what they are doing is working very w...
Actually the Xbox 360 owners are busy BUYING AND PLAYING games period. Attach rates say 360 owners play more games. Please understand, attach rates are determined using both console and software sales and on average an xbox owner has more games than a ps3 owner
I'm sure he can pop in HALO CEA or Forza 4 just as easily as you can Uncharted 3 or Resistance 3. Why does it have to be an exclusive anyway?
Attach rates prove that 360 players buy and play more games than ps3 players. Why don't you go buy a game, that way SONY can stop bleeding money?
Trouble bubble, its very easy to pull out numbers of less popular games on 360 vs a ps3 game that is on its 3rd iteration.
Are honestly going to bring up sales of an H...
All I see is profit after profit after profit. http://www.vgchartz.com/art...
http://www.vgchartz.com/art...
5252d ago 5 agree11 disagreeView comment
No.
It's so weird because the media were and are still giving VITA rave reviews. It is the consumer (Japan) that has snubbed the console, not the media.
All the media has done is report on the sales, good or bad. Quit shooting the messenger just because you don't like the message.
It Makes Gaming Cents
I have a question, do 2nd party studios get paid upfront or do they get paid according to sales performance of their game?