|
That's true, most Japanese gamers don't have a home console. They live in very small and spartan setting compared to people out west and they still have overcrowding issues in their cities. It's a reason why the PSP and DS took off so well over there and why things like Spotpass and adhoc actually work so well in Japan. It's why I had to facepalm hard when Microsoft pushed Kinect to Japan and thought it would sell. Even if it was desired there's simply no room in most Japanese househds in the city to take advantage of the technology. So yes, this makes huge sense that they would release it for a handheld. No surprise it's on the 3ds, the vita is getting PS4 Golden and they want to foster a fanbase on the 3ds and not push away their fanbase from the DS that will eventually get a 3ds.
As for the vita selling not to shabby, there are number of reasons. It's still quite expensive and many are still waiting for more games that they would want to play to be made/released for it. Such as the making of an updated version of PS4 on the vita will help the vita gain more traction in Japan, don't know about the west. Don't forget that the 3ds didn't do too hot on its release and the following months than the games started coming out and they had a price cut. Since the 3ds can play ds games and is price in a similiar vein as the later ds version means that more are willing to get it over the ds.
|