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Fafalada said:Dunno - it seems to be working very well for Apple.
Not much concrete evidence that people actually upgrade their iStuff every year as people are wont to accuse them of. Every two years people are going to get upgrade pricing from their carrier; for iPads/iPTs I suspect a hand-me-down strategy (where one person replaces their device so someone else in the family can get the older one as their first device) is much more common, the same way it was for pre-phone iPods (and, for that matter, DSes.)
Key2001 said:Regardless, the PSP did performed very well its first year or so; any system would be considered doing good if it received the same sales.
Nowadays, certainly, given how shitty the hardware market has been this year.
I certainly wouldn't deny that the PSP did very solidly in its first year, but that's in a far more positive sales environment.
The PSVita has more in its favor at $250 than the 3DS and PSP did.
That's nuts.
The high-end game titles are being offered at the same price as the competitors games and is far from the only gaming experience the PSVita is offering.
This is just Sony's unfiltered pitch, without any consideration of how it actually fits into the context of reality. People don't go shopping for lists of bullet points, they go shopping for specific devices that serve some specific need or desire they want to satisfy (and for gaming systems, that has always, for 100% of all systems over the medium's entire history, primarily fallen down to software selection.)
The Vita is a poor iPhone replacement in exactly the same way that PSP was a poor iPod replacement. It is not going to get traction based on a smattering of tablet-lite features or because you can play Angry Birds on it. Without top-line software that is both desirable and appealingly priced, and an entry price people are willing to pay to get access to that software, the system has nothing to offer.
Now, I'm not saying Vita doesn't have good software on offer. I intend to get one. But frankly, the fact that I'm interested in a system bodes very poorly for its market success at the moment. A lot of us identified the "trapped in the middle" challenge that phones (better at ultra-casual, no-investment mindless timewasting than handhelds) and consoles (better at visually and auditorily spectacular "experiences" than handhelds) had put handhelds in back when 3DS and Vita were still entirely speculative, and Vita by virtue of chasing more aggressively after the COD end of the pool is presenting an overall selling point that will be hard if not impossible to stick in the West.
I don't know what makes you think I am angry.
Sharp, aggressive requests for "proof" of clearly speculative, non-factual discussion points tend to come off as angry!