No, the media is biased only against SONY.
I mean someone here said that the VITA was being unfairly targeted by the media and that nobody said anything when the 3DS was struggling. . .and he like 40 agrees and 6 disagrees.
Thank you. Someone who gets it. How can they ask people to recommend a device to their friends when they themselves don't market it right, price their memory cards ridiculously, not have enough 3rd party support?
$250 struggling console vs $40 - $60 already striving service.
One has very little in the way of 3rd party support and isn't being very well marketed by its maker and the other is an essential service for online gaming on that system and is marketed so much its borderline invasive.
So no, it's not okay. Not until they get their act together on their end and start making it an attractive enough product.
Comparing a $1 billion revenue a year service with 25 million users that is thriving so much they had enough balls to up the price to a struggling handheld device.
Does it make it all better for you?
People called microsoft desperate for giving microsoft points with every Gears and GTA V sold. Shouldn't be suprising that this move by Sony is evoking the same thoughts. Amazon, Best Buy and Ebay don't make a handheld game that is struggling at the moment though. Just as an after thought. . .
You have to admit it does seem rather desperate, all things considered (vita sales performance, first time a gaming company does this for hardware)
I want alot more than just 20 bucks for convincing someone to buy a VITA.
To the disagreers, did I blow your mind?
Or they are looking to take some of Microsoft's online features and neat app. No?
"I mean, you’ve gotta be kidding me. Why would I buy a gaming system without a hard drive in it? How does this thing scale? Motion gaming is cute, but if I can only wave my arms six inches, how does this really feel like I’m doing true accurate motion gaming? Our view of the ‘Game Boy experience’ is that it’s a great babysitting tool, (but) no self-respecting 20-something is going to be sitting on an airplane with one of those. He’s too old for that." - Jack Tretton CEO and presiden...
What is this Move you speak of?
Seriously though, Move tanked hard and its games aren't very compelling. Sorcery was a joke.
What if hypothetical questions didn't exist?
Wow. Battlefield Space is what they should just call it. Enough with the hero walking cooly towards us weapon in hand EA!
BFBC 2, BF3, ME3 and now DS3.
Agent, wow. Been a while since I heard anything about this game. Is it even still in development?
Are you being sarcastic? Because if you read the article you'd know they didn't lose any money and in fact made more profit than last year.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! Do you people not know the difference between revenue and profit?
Profit is the stuff you get after you've subtracted the costs and expenses from your revenue.
More profit = a good thing.
More revenue is only great if it is accompanied by less costs and expenses.
Really? Which part? The fact that they made a profit or the that they made even more money than the same period last year?
"That said, the division remained PROFITABLE and even IMPROVED PERFORMANCE, with operating income of $596 million, UP from $517 million in the same quarter a year ago."
So tell me, which part of making over half a billion in profit is "not good." Typical of eye-catching article meant to draw hits by leading with the negative. Typica...
Losing money? What are you talking about? Did you read the article? They made a profit. PROFIT. Over half a billion worth!
Were you so eager to compare MICROSOFT negatively to SONY that you neglected to read the darn article you are commenting on?
Edit: honestly people, what's there to disagree with? The Xbox division made a profit of $596 million, thats $79 million more than they made last year during the same period. How am I wrong?
Seriously bro? Why instigate stuff? Off topic and flamebait right there.
Way to go off topic. Thank you.
I took it upon myself to investigate and tallied up all the perfect scores and these are the sites that gave them and their metacritic profile statuses:
GodisaGeek - no MC profile
TechDigest - no MC profile
Laserlemming - No MC
Stuff.tv - No MC profile
Dailyecho - no mc profile
Thegamershub - nope
Digitallydownloaded - no
Empireonline - nope
Revision3.com - HOLD THE PHONE!! They actually have one, but nothing has...
Root, you sir have been served.