Sony: We're Going To Give The Vita Everything We've Got
Although Sony says they'd like sales to be a little higher, they're adamant about one primary point: As always, this is a marathon and not a sprint, and we have to at least get through one holiday cycle.
As cited by Videogamer, PlayStation UK boss Fergal Gara admitted that the Vita software "did dry up during the summer," but the new fall releases should help spur sales. Said Gara:
"We'd love for us to be further on. And the release schedule for Vita was rather like the release schedule for the industry this year, in that it did dry up during the summer. We had that incredible summer of sport and very little focus on gaming.
But the great news is that we have got the content in place. We have got the cash to invest in terms of marketing and retail to really ignite it this Christmas. To start judging a console before it has had its first Christmas is preposterous, really. And we are giving it everything we have got."
The Vita has broken the 1 million sales plateau in Japan but clearly, Sony wants (and maybe needs) more. As always in this industry, great games can be of great assistance, and the new portable will get Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, and a few other titles that hardcore gamers should really want, so...
Tags: vita, playstation vita, vita sales, sony
10/11/2012 11:46:18 AM Ben Dutka
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CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:16:32 PM
Simcoe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:43:25 PM
CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:52:13 PM
WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:07:35 PM
CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:19:52 PM
Simcoe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:44:40 PM
Dancemachine55
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 9:09:43 PM
While I'm more interested in the Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation bundle, a CoD BlOps II Declass Vita bundle with a 4GB memory stick certainly will help drive sales. Let's just hope the marketing team has this all planned already.
WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:17:37 PM
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Phoenix
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:47:06 PM
CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:56:59 PM
Killa Tequilla
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:06:51 PM
tes37
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:06:56 PM
WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:09:00 PM
PoopsMcGee
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:56:07 PM
Solid Fantasy
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 3:48:55 PM
dbyzforce
Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 12:30:23 AM
jimmyhandsome
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:23:48 PM
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Simcoe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:45:24 PM
CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:00:17 PM
I agree with you! I was in the hospital for 4 days healing my bleeding eyes! Like Simcoe said hopefully it was a pre-alpha version. I recently saw some updated picks and they have improved the graphics. However, with no Zombies and 4vs4 it is already a massive disappointment. I won't be picking this up until it's $19.99 or less. On the flip side I hope it does very well and sells a lot of Vitas.
Simcoe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:46:46 PM
jimmyhandsome
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 2:02:30 PM
PoopsMcGee
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 2:11:11 PM
tes37
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 12:52:41 PM
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I'm patiently waiting for everything too, so I can sift through it all and pick out what I want. I've got the major hurdle taken care of, the Vita's price tag(x2).
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:21:55 PM
tes37
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:27:31 PM
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:36:40 PM
tes37
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:50:25 PM
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:58:12 PM
Highlander
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:09:27 PM
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Sony can't compete on price when their price is already good, the biggest problem Sony has is that gamers in NA are largely sheep led by opinion shapers online and in the media. The loud and persistent negativity and hate aimed at Sony has altered the market perception of Sony and their products here permanently. It doesn't matter that Vita is excellent, and good value for money, that message can never be spread because it's immediately shot down as if it were complete non-sense.
Somehow, Sony has to find a way to change that perception and crush the negativity and hatred with more positive things. However so long as the Media has Sony in their sights as whipping boy, that's not gonna change.
tes37
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:33:39 PM
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:43:02 PM
darxed
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 2:14:01 PM
Hey guys, speaking of Vita games, Are you getting Persona 4 Golden?
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 2:49:18 PM
CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 4:06:54 PM
Beamboom
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:10:15 PM
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Of course they have to give it a fighting chance. But please don't burn too much money and effort on this one, Sony. Focus on the PS4!
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 5:32:24 PM
Highlander
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 6:44:05 PM
I know that I am a gamer, and therefore I might see this a little differently from other consumers however, I carry a smartphone every day. I use it for net browsing, pictures, phone calls, texting (very rarely), GPS but not games. There are two reasons for that, the first is that the controls on the thing are absolutely crap, it's just a touch screen device at heart, though it does have a keyboard that slides out. even so, it's still pitiful in the controls department. However it's a more than adequate point and shoot camera, a decent phone, good web browser and GPS.
The second reason is that the games themselves are crap. Well, OK, they're not crap in their own right, but they are not the kinds of game I want to pay anything to play.
So my Smartphone is a very poor game playing device and the games themselves are not setting the heather alight. The vita on the other hand is bigger, has controls (buttons, joysticks, accelerometers, two touch surfaces, microphone and a camera), and has both a quad core CPU and GPU necessary to push console grade games on a handheld unit.
For gaming there is simply no comparison. As it happens I use my Vita both at home and away from home. It's battery lasts about 6 hours depending on what I play and how bright the screen needs to be. If I play a graphically intensive game on my phone two things happen swiftly, the casing heats up as the dual core CPU struggles to keep up and casts off a lot of heat, and at the same time it eats the battery in less than 2 hours. If I play games on my phone, the end result is a hand warmer with no charge, which is a poor proposition for making phone calls. So again, we come back to the Vita.
But that's me, a tech head and gamer for decades, talking. My son hasn't been a gamer that long, and has enjoyed playing certain games on his tablet and my wife's smartphone. However, in his opinion, the phone is crap compared to the Vita. He points to the graphics, the games, the sound and especially the games themselves. I understand the point that a lot of people make about carrying multiple devices, and yet I see people carrying both an iPhone and an iPad all the time. Or folks with an Android phone also carrying a tablet. If you're willing to carry two devices, why not make one a smartphone and the other a game/media player? Vita has a good sized screen, and yet is much smaller than those tablets, it has great controls that can't be matched by tablets. Yes, there are uses for tablets, but games on the move isn't one of them.
I just don't see any justification what so ever for this argument that Worlds summed up as the "portable market is toast".
WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 7:03:20 PM
What appeals to us older gamers or what technology and games are better are hardly the determining factor in what is successful and what isn't. I think it's safe to say the people who want a console experience on a handheld are a shrinking market.
daus26
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 8:11:30 PM
You can clearly see this with the sales of Call of Duty, Nintendo Wii, and Apple Smartphones/Computers. Obviously, with Call of Duty, there are better quality shooters out there, but that doesn't matter cause it's selling like crazy. The Nintendo Wii wasn't close to being a true next gen console compared to PS3/360 yet it sold much better. As for Apple products, people are basically buying because of the brand. Even if it cost twice as much as a non-Apple brand like Sony or Samsung, it still sells well. You can call it gimmick or whatever, but when it becomes a trend, it becomes hard to stop or interrupt.
As it is now, the world is simply all about smartphones and tablets. The PSVita can be 4times as powerful as those devices and run at $200, but that still doesn't necessarily mean people will lean towards it. There's much more to it than just having the best specs, graphics, or price.
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:15:54 PM
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CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:31:31 PM
PS4 is going to be the moment of AWE!!!! I am learning that having touch screens on the controller not only enhances the game play but makes it more fun. I am wondering if Sony will do a Vita-esque controller for the PS4 or just offer the connectivity with the current Vita. My guess is that the Vita is going to go down in price to the point it will be a viable controller for the PS4. It completely puts the Wii U Tablet Controller to shame that's for sure. Or maybe a Vita 2 with more power. Being in the Sony camp is really a joy that's for sure!
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:53:12 PM
CrusaderForever
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:32:36 PM
tes37
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:37:52 PM
sawao_yamanaka
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 1:49:20 PM
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BikerSaint
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 2:01:50 PM
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Lawless SXE
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 3:21:21 PM
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Publishers need to realise that Vita games can stand on their own two legs and stagger their releases in comparison to their full fledged tie-ins. Releasing them alongside each other only damages their short-term sales and with the number of games being released every year, the short term is really all that matters.
daus26
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 7:53:59 PM
Dancemachine55
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 9:20:03 PM
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Only games for Vita I'm interested in right now are:
Uncharted Golden Abyss
Rayman Origins
Littlebig Planet Vita
Gravity Rush
Assassin's Creed III Liberation
PS All Stars Battle Royale
Sly Cooper 4: Thieves in Time
Persona 4 Golden
Final Fantasy X HD
MGS HD Collection
Sound Shapes
I'm just hoping beyond hope to see a new Elder Scrolls or GTA on the Vita. Now THAT would make Vitas fly off the shelves!!
Already have the following PSP and PS1 classics from PSN to go with my Vita Day 1:
FF VII - IX
Driver
Crash Bandicoot 3
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
Rayman
Metal Gear Solid
Vagrant Story
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
MGS Peacewalker
God of War Chains of Olympus
God of War Ghost of Sparta
So even if I don't get any games with the Vita on Christmas Day, I will still have plenty of classics to play on it when I open it up on Christmas Day. :)
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Dancemachine55
Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 9:22:21 PM
SmokeyPSD
Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 5:32:03 AM
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Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 5:39:27 AM
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$ony REALLY need to put their big name developers behind their franchises!
resistance and COD were a BIG mistake, so its really encouraging to see GG are working on KZ mercenaries and not some no name third party studio.
$ony really needs to get ND on the vita, not uncharted let bend studio do that get a ND original IP on there.
get $ony SM to bring a GOW game to the vita, get PD to bring over a GT game.
the vita really is going to struggle because the mobile market is so competitive now.
so it needs every little bit of help it can get!
the ONE thing the vita has that NO portable device can offer is its a portable console, so it really needs to play that home!
unfortunately though most of the games havent, most have just been quick crappy rush jobs.
cough unit 13, cough resistance burning skies, ect, ect.

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