Poor sales may cause the handheld to lose some major Japanese support.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rumor/29292
Major Japanese developers may be dropping Vita support in favor of the 3DS, according to an anonymous source published on the Nikkei website.
In a story written by Kiyoshi Shin, former head of the Japanese branch of the International Game Developers Association, an unnamed source announces that "major Japanese companies are canceling all projects intended for the Vita and are changing development to the 3DS."
When asked about the quote during an interview with Gamasutra, Scott Rohde, Sony's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Studios, denies the validity the comment."I mean, obviously, there is no way anyone could stand in front of a camera and say that all developers are changing focus from one platform to another, no matter what it is," he says.
He continues to say that the statement is likely "largely exaggerated. I know many, many, many third party developers and publishers are feverishly working on Vita titles, not just for now, but for the foreseeable future."
These comments follow a recent dropoff in Vita sales in Japan. The most recent weekly sales numbers showed the system dropping below PSP and 3DS, selling 13,939 units.
Well, I hope it's not losing too much support to the 3DS. I'm not a big fan of either handheld, but nothing good comes of a monopoly. One of the reasons why the DS lineup turned out as well as it did was competition from the PSP. It's best for both platforms if the Vita is at least somewhat viable, despite Sony's best efforts to kill it before it's even launched worldwide.
brood, the GBA was unopposed and it still had a ton of great games.
brood, the GBA was unopposed and it still had a ton of great games.
brood, the GBA was unopposed and it still had a ton of great games.
I enjoy a lot of games on my iPhone and iPad, but those platforms are in no way direct competitors to the 3DS. Even if the market shifted and gamers on those platforms were to in large numbers become willing to pay more than $2-3 for games, the lack of physical controls would harshly limit what could be done. If the Vita goes down, the 3DS is unopposed in the handheld arena.They are direct competitors in the aspect of casual games/former or potential Blue Ocean gamers.
NES went up against (and destroyed) the Sega Master System, Atari 7800 and XE, and a ton of Commodore, MSX, and various other early home computer systems. For that matter, GBA destroyed N-Gage, Zodiac, and Wonderswan Crystal (in Japan), but it wasn't completely unopposed.brood, the GBA was unopposed and it still had a ton of great games.
And what about the NES for that matter? That was a great system (some would argue Nintendo's best), and it defined an era.
Sony also makes cellphones, so even if they dropped the Vita they would still have that.Yeah, if Vita completely fails, I expect they'd put full force behind an Xperia Play line. Now that they have full ownership of their mobile division, I expect that will be easier.
Sony splintered their own marketAs has been true for a while, too many internal competing interests.
Well, I hope it's not losing too much support to the 3DS. I'm not a big fan of either handheld, but nothing good comes of a monopoly.
Well, I hope it's not losing too much support to the 3DS. I'm not a big fan of either handheld, but nothing good comes of a monopoly.
I know I already responded to this days ago, but I just thought of a good argument a few minutes ago while I was looking at a blu-ray movie on amazon. Remember the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD? Few would argue that was a good thing for consumers because it scizomed the market and no one knew which format to buy, and studios didn't know which one to support with their content. Isn't the war between video game systems exactly like that? The war between the 3DS and the Vita is very much a format war just like the war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
