Sony exec confirms Vita has sold 2.2 million units worldwide That's just absolutely abysmal. Sure, 3DS had almost a year head-start, but it had sold 19 million at the end of June. Even more appalling is that Vita had sold 1.8 million worldwide as of March...which means only 400,000 Vitas have been sold in the last five months. Vita is in trouble, and Sony doesn't seem to be doing anything to fix it. It needs a strong game lineup, and it's just not happening. :/
I still really want a Vita. Sony please put games on the Vita so I can buy one and help you. :'( I want to support this system because I feel bad buying a 3DS because of its region locking but Sony isn't making this easy for me!
That... is pathetic. Sony needs to do something soon. :/ It can't just rely on Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, and a shoddy Call of Duty to sell systems.
It hasn't even broken a million in America. 600k was the last sales figure I read. Slightly more in Japan, slightly less in Europe. Someone posted a chart somewhere in that thread on Neogaf showing sales of different systems...Vita sales are comparable to Dreamcast.
I guess to be fair, anyone I know who's ever owned a Dreamcast really loved that console and say it was one of the best ones ever. :P And everyone I know who owns a Vita absolutely loves it... although the one person I've really talked to about their Vita never owned a PSP and is taking advantage of buying PSP titles digitally, whereas making the jump from a PSP to a Vita is much harder since none of your games transfer over and all. So it could be a great console! It just has no games. 3DS didn't have any good, unique launch titles, but at least it had OoT to draw people in. Vita doesn't even have an equivalent for that (despite all the good games announced for it in the future being ports).
The thing that really bothers me about Vita is that the games that have come out are basically watered-down titles that aren't as good as their console counterparts (Uncharted and Resistance - which was apparently astonishingly terrible). there are basically two "big" games coming out this year for it: AC Liberation and Black Ops. AC Liberation looks to be a watered-down, gimmicky entry in the series, and Black Ops Declassified is made by the same people that made the Resistance game on Vita. So basically companies aren't even trying and are quite content making PS3 games but-not-as-good. Pretty much the same thing that happened to the PSP/PS2. This might be a good idea for a Soapbox article on the site...
Hey, don't knock the PSP. It may have had a rough start but it has some phenomenal titles and although it doesn't have the library that the DS does, it's 100% worth the purchase with even a handful of games. :'( The Vita really seems to be the "handheld console everyone wants" since so many complained about the DS being gimmicky and the 3DS even moreso but... at least they instill creativity in developers. When you have something totally new like two screens or a touch screen, the creative juices just flow. So the DS got a lot of interesting titles from devs testing the waters. The only upgrade the Vita has from the PSP (to my knowledge) is better graphics and the touch controls... but the gaming industry has had touch controls on handhelds for years with Nintendo. That's neither interesting nor exciting. Even the Sony devs trying it out for the first time don't seem to care enough to be creative. I think I remember the only real use for the touch screen that they showed off was uhh... choosing your path up a wall in Uncharted if you didn't want to control the character yourself? I mean, fair enough, that's not a series that needs touchscreen gimmicks but none of the series they've put on it thus far are. The feature is entirely superfluous and I feel it could have been left out entirely so they could focus on bringing something into the Vita that hasn't been done yet. (Although, then again, Sony's last attempt at totally rewriting their console was the PSP Go which failed spectacularly.) A lot of console spinoffs ended up on the PSP and that did well enough. They're just doing more of the same because that's what works. They aren't particularly concerned with innovation and, apparently, neither are any developers. Like I mentioned before, when I look through the Vita's list of released/upcoming games... the only appealing titles are remakes and re-releases. Final Fantasy X, Jet Set Radio, MGS HD, Persona 4, Tales of Innocence, and Katamari. Those are literally the only things on that list that I'm interested in picking up one day and of those only Katamari is a new title... and even then, those have been just awful since the first two so I expect no different from this one. There's just no innovation on this system and, to me, no reason to buy it if all it will bring over the PSP is remakes of games I can play elsewhere. I'd avoid a proper feature until you actually have a Vita to talk about, though. :P
:P Most of the ones I know who owned one owned all the consoles around then! So they didn't even mess up, really! They just had rich parents.
