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[cyberheater]

Even Sony have realised it's flopping.

 

[cw_sasuke]

Sony needs to work hard to make this a success.
Unfortunately games and support are not there yet. It's pretty difficult to justify a 250€ purchase with an other extra 50€ for the memory card to play an Uncharted spinoff or the usual Wipeout and Minna No Golf.
I feel that Vita will follow the footsteps of 3DS, miserable post launch sales, Sony in panic mode, price cut to 199€ and big games in time for holiday 2012.

Which hardware pushin big games do you expect at Holiday 2012 ?

 

[Hyuga]

Sony needs to work hard to make this a success.
Unfortunately games and support are not there yet.

For a new hardware launch?
They are there!

 

[chickdigger802]

If they were 3G models, wise move. Better to hide them in a warehouse, then let them collect dust on store shelves.

And if these were in america, I doubt you would even get ATT reception in those warehouses ;P

 

[BY2K]

Mais il est fou!

 

[Interfectum]

It begins.

 

[Averon]

Sony should have just went with 4G. At least that can appear to justify the extra $50.

 

[jiggles]

It makes sense to make it appear to be in short supply in a country where the hardware numbers aren't released.

 

[NeoZylom]

Il se passe bien des choses sur ce forum :O

 

[mugurumakensei]

next week, scea cuts vita shipment 200%.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Still overshipping.

 

[Randomizer]

Wow.

Think that's bad.

WIFI Vita: £230 = $352
3G Vita: £280 = $430

 

[Hellsing321]

I may pick a Vita up this year if the launch keeps going this badly. Come on bomba!

 

[Marco1]

It's extremely clear that the vita needs a price cut and a few big hitters. Similar to what 3DS received but I think it's to late for a handheld war, 3DS has clearly won.
We all know that as soon as vita may catch up, Nintendo will release 3DSlite.
I want a vita but I will wait until the inevitable price drop .

 

[V_Ben]

They're really taking their time to push this thing aren't they. I haven't seen a single advert yet. Are they waiting for february or something?

 

[big_z]

I don't want Vita to die before I buy one

Spoiler

in 2014

Just wait until later this year and you'll be able to buy vitas for $20 in bargain bins much like what happened to the virtual boy.

 

[EatChildren]

Are there any demo's units around where you are? Because I haven't seen those either and I'm sure the hardware would impress quite a few people especially if they put something for the European market like Fifa or a nice racing title up for display.

Nope. All we have are a bunch of placeholder boxes and a two way stand with display cases for Uncharted and a couple of other games. We get pre-orders every now and then, but there doesn't appear to be much buzz.

 

[Barack Lesnar]

I may pick a Vita up this year if the launch keeps going this badly. Come on bomba!

Then we will get no games in the future

 

[Emitan]

Then we will get no games in the future

Homebrew

 

[Elios83]

Which hardware pushin big games do you expect at Holiday 2012 ?

I don't know what to expect but I hope/believe that they have things in store.
Call of Duty is pretty much confirmed for that timeframe, hopefully it will be an exclusive title/spin off ala Uncharted:GA.
Then there could be suprises from Rockstar (a portable Red Dead Redemption spin off or GTA5 portable would be really nice to have).
Assassin's Creed should be pretty good considering that they can have the same sandbox gameplay of console titles with the extra control features of Vita.
FIFA is a killer app for Europe, PSP is still selling in Europe because of that game.
Then who knows....of course Sony knows that they need big games to sell the device.

For a new hardware launch?
They are there!

Launch is decent for a core gamer but it has not killer apps, except maybe for FIFA 2012 in Europe, but the biggest problem is that after launch they don't have much...even simply announced.

 

[heringer]

Doomed?

 

[la flama blanca]

Then we will get no games in the future

Argh...I'm starting to not want to get this day 1...sad

 

[weeaboo]

Doomed?

Le PS Morte

 

[Barack Lesnar]

Homebrew

I dunno if you're joking or not but for what purpose? Playing roms? You can do all that stuff on PSP

 

[V_Ben]

Nope. All we have are a bunch of placeholder boxes and a two way stand with display cases for Uncharted and a couple of other games. We get pre-orders every now and then, but there doesn't appear to be much buzz.

Has actual advertising started over there yet? I haven't seen a single TV advert over here, or even a magazine advert. It's bizarre, people don't even know it exists. Like they want it to fail.

 

[MrPliskin]

Homebrew

So instead we get bad indie games from hipsters and inferior multimedia apps? No thanks...

 

[Kazerei]

I've paid enough attention to NPD and MC sales threads to have a pretty good sense of scale when it comes to North America and Japan. But I don't really know much about UK and Europe. How high/low is 40k units for launch in France? What's the typical range for hardware sales in France?

 

[Digishine]

viva la vita ! ow :/

 

[Puppet Shadow]

I feel like cancelling my order, myself. It's not because of the doom and gloom stuff, I just realize that personally, there's not enough at launch for me to buy it. I bought a 3DS at launch, so I know the pain of there being no interesting games.

Ya, I did this as well. I'll wait till there's at least 5 or so must games I want.

 

[[Nintex]]

Nope. All we have are a bunch of placeholder boxes and a two way stand with display cases for Uncharted and a couple of other games. We get pre-orders every now and then, but there doesn't appear to be much buzz.

Yeah, the same feeling around here. Thanks for the update.

They're really taking their time to push this thing aren't they. I haven't seen a single advert yet. Are they waiting for february or something?

Sony recently announced they were going to back it with their largest ever advertising campaign in Europe.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sony-has-biggest-campaign-ever-ready-for-vita-paunch/089480

 

[Benjamin1981]

They're really taking their time to push this thing aren't they. I haven't seen a single advert yet. Are they waiting for february or something?

Ads failed QA and got delayed by SCEE just like any decent PSN game in the recent past

 

[Hiro_Kunimi_80]

Doomed?

 

[Emitan]

I dunno if you're joking or not but for what purpose? Playing roms? You can do all that stuff on PSP

You don't understand. Everything must have homebrew. EVERYTHING

 

[Barack Lesnar]

You don't understand. Everything must have homebrew. EVERYTHING

I'm ssstarting to see what you did there >.<''

 

[chickdigger802]

So besides uncharted, what games are there that appeal to the mainstream? And is uncharted even that big compare to other console exclusives like halo, mario, etc?

 

[EatChildren]

Has actual advertising started over there yet? I haven't seen a single TV advert over here, or even a magazine advert. It's bizarre, people don't even know it exists. Like they want it to fail.

I haven't seen shit anywhere, but I rarely switch on the TV for anything other than games. But I haven't heard anything from anybody. The general consensus I'm getting is similar to what you're saying; people just don't know about it.

 

[Emitan]

So instead we get bad indie games from hipsters and inferior multimedia apps? No thanks...

What do you mean instead? I'm talking about when this thing is dead in the West.

 

[StuBurns]

25% 3G? How's that model selling in Japan? I really expected that to disappear almost instantly.

 

[jman2050]

So besides uncharted, what games are there that appeal to the mainstream? And is uncharted even that big compare to other console exclusives like halo, mario, etc?

A) FIFA is the only one that comes to mind B) Hahahahaha no

 

[IndieJones]

Sounds like I might have preordered myself a collector's item.

 

[apana]

I liked the clamshell form factor of the Sony P Tablet better than the Vita design. It looks a bit too "gamey" to carry around in public. They should have also taken my advice and put a vitality sensor in there.

 

[Takao]

25% 3G? How's that model selling in Japan? I really expected that to disappear almost instantly.

The 3G model hasn't sold very well in Japan.

 

[Man God]

Sony is seriously dropping the ball when it comes to marketing this thing.

They didn't do a great job with the PSP early on either but at least that had the Sony can do no wrong, this beautiful piece of future tech is going to crush that kid's toy looking DS buzz around it.

 

[Digishine]

Fixed

 

[udivision]

C'est la Vita.

 

[cyberheater]

They stupidly priced themselves out of the market. What did they expect.

 

[Emitan]

Sony is seriously dropping the ball when it comes to marketing this thing.

They didn't do a great job with the PSP early on either but at least that had the Sony can do no wrong, this beautiful piece of future tech is going to crush that kid's toy looking DS buzz around it.

It's like a BOMBA you can take outside!

 

[Barack Lesnar]

I liked the clamshell form factor of the Sony P Tablet better than the Vita design. It looks a bit too "gamey" to carry around in public. They should have also taken my advice and put a vitality sensor in there.

That looks sickkkkkkk

 

[Kazerei]

Fixed

Nice

 

[JWong]

They stupidly priced themselves out of the market. What did they expect.

Yeah, shoulda priced themselves at iPhone $700 range.