Its the AAA game stuff that burns me. I love Vita for what it became but it could have been so much more. I think Sony genuinely underestimated the intelligence of the customers with Vita. They likely assumed COD and AC (being the huge brands they are) would sell the system and then they could continue making games for it and act like they were always 100% behind the Vita.
People are well aware AAA means big budget and the games that were being put out seemed to reflect ...
But where was that Call of Duty Jack Tretton described? You know "an AAA first person multiplayer shooter in the palm of your hands with a beautiful 5 inch screen, dual analogue sticks and seamless online connectivity". That COD.
Where was it on Vita? He couldn't have been talking about Declassified so what COD was he talking about? Declassified was NOT AAA. Its an insult to people's intelligence to call it AAA because the budget was clearly tiny.
Exactly. I've said this for years regarding the media and analysts throwing that "smart phones will kill dedicated handhelds" line. Smart phones are under control of the casuals so the market will not last forever.
Then how come Yan2295 has been saying for years "Bully 2 is on the way"?
The high price doesn't justify ranking it down though. PS3 was ready for anything the generation could throw at it while MS' decision to use DVD discs instead bit them in the behind. Sure at first PS3 struggled but as time went on it proved beyond any doubt it was far superior to 360.
@uth11
And On Live was early and didn't have a large scale company like Google backing it. Like I said yesterday believing it will fail is extremely short sighted because if a company as big as Google or Apple enter the market you know they intend to be there to see it through.
Having Google's hype behind it instantly gives it an advantage over On Live because people trust Google rather than just a random brand name that just popped up out of now...
"It doesn't stand a chance"
Said the Sony sceptics who believed trying to implement disc based media would never happen after Sega failed to do it (including Atari and Rare).
And the Xbox sceptics who believed a console from Microsoft would never work.
Yes, believe it or not Sony WERE being met with scepticism when they first entered here.
I think people are underestimating Google when they compare this to On Live. Google have as much cash as MS and if they could make their brand successful Google can do the same. Beating out the others depends on how many embrace game streaming but I think anybody who thinks this will die is in for a rude awakening.
Chromebooks have been beating out other laptops in the past 2 years so do not underestimate the hype men from Google.
@Protagonist
No. Japanese gamers are going portable and so are their art and visions. Assuming PS5 pulls the same service and online focus that XBox One tried before it PS5 will bomb hard in Japan.
Switch has taken Japan like wildfire and Sony's censorship policies are causing anime fans to scramble to Switch.
I hate to break it to you but Persona 6 is getting on Switch.
There are great third party games on Vita but you can't deny the ones on Switch are better. Vita has that terribly shoddy port of Revelations 2 while Switch's looks far superior. Liberation is now coming to Switch with AC 3. Call Of Duty was a train wreck.
When will these companies get the message that some franchises just don't translate to multiplayer? I've heard that line that its dev costs pushing service games but it isn't. It is just easier to milk through micro-transactions.
The second loot boxes get banned on a global scale online multiplayer will be in serious trouble.
I bought Shin Den Ai for research purposes. Deleted it when I saw enough of it.
As far as I'm concerned every major option is a market as long as people see benefits in it. On the other hand that does not mean one market will cease from existence.
People kept preaching the PC will kill the console.
Then they said mobiles will kill dedicated handhelds.
As long as shovelware and technical issues plague mobiles and cloud gaming neither will completely kill the other optional markets.
There is a major difference between an Xbox fan and a 360 fan. I cannot believe even after Tales of Vesperia's abysmal sales (and that is in the UK) people still carry this mentality that the wider fanbase 360 had has carried over because it clearly has not.
Two points
1. Switch is after a different group than PS4 (though there might be some overlap).
2. PS4 is at a point in it's life where sales will naturally start to decline because its old technology whereas Switch is newer.
The question isn't about sales of the game but sales of the season pass. Its those sales that will make Nintendo continue DLC on the game even if Sakurai quits. Hopefully its done well enough for Nintendo to consider demand for Rex/Pyra and Arms characters (on top of the usual suspects like Waluigi, Isaac, Dixie etc).
Reading the article just makes it sound like they shut down Visceral for nothing. Apparently Vancouver's game wasn't out soon enough.
@paintedgamer
They can't be "left behind" when they aren't directly competing in the console market anymore. Switch is more like PC whereby it aims at a certain type of player. They tried in consoles and failed so they are done with them.
I don't know how many times it must be shown. PC, consoles, dedicated handhelds and mobiles are all different markets with different audiences and can coexist with each other. Switch is not a direct compe...
It only sold better because Wii U was a branding disaster and Vita had the Japanese fanbase chugging it along. If it didn't have the niche Japanese games it would have had no purpose. Both failed for similar reasons but the difference is how they were set up.
With Wii U the damage had been done and was way beyond repair but Sony could have turned Vita around.