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Originally Posted by com_gwp
You just basically described the first year of the 3DS as well. 
Point is, don't be so quick to take it out for the count. Sure, there aren't many games for it out right now, but give it time and you'll see more software, same with the 3DS. (And I oughta know, I was a day-one buyer) |
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Originally Posted by Destined_Fate
Indeed, it sounds like when the 3ds came out. It had no games and the only thing people had to look forward to were ports or first party titles. Sad that for the longest time many of the games did horrible other than the remake of OoT.
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You're forgetting a few things. Aligning their launch dates, weekly sales of the 3DS were matching sales of the DS in the first year, more or less. And I can't even recall if weekly 3DS sales fell below 10000 units. Plus there was also the fact that the 3DS had guaranteed first-party system selling games coming within its first year.
With regards to first party titles, that was one of the very things that helped increases sales of 3DS and kept interest in them going. Maybe that's a lesson Sony should have picked up earlier, considering they have some good first party franchises they could have leveraged at launch to at least alleviate the Vita's situation.
Finally, the PSP may have done well, but it's still the loser in the previous generation's portable war. And the main reason it did well previously was thanks to Monster Hunter keeping it alive long enough to convince third parties to make more games for it. Sony no longer has that particular advantage.
You can talk about hope all you want, but the it all just adds up to an even worse first year position compared to the same period as the 3DS'. And even then Nintendo was already taking very visible steps to fix their situation. Sony, meanwhile, seems to be satisfied to sit and scratch their rear end. It's very hard for people to not count the Vita out if Sony isn't trying to reassure them that they're doing something to ease their concerns.
EDIT: Also, what's everyone's speculation on the setting? Tokyo gets dumped into a Last Bible-style setting or is merging with it? That'd certainly be something different.