moywar700

I mistyped that. I meant 2011 instead of 2015.

Playstation Vita has to be the worst selling console over. Playstation Vita and having a snail race on how can get to the finish line. What could had Sony had done to make Vita a success? They made a single mistake which caused them to flunk an entire handheld.

The Playstation Vita was far too expensive. The Play Station Vita was priced at 250$. The memory cards are also too expensive. A person is maybe looking to spend 300$ that's not even including tax or any free games! The 3ds was also seen as a failure half a year it came out. Nintendo had to lower down the price for the 3ds. The 3ds became a hit. It's quite clear that the Vita was way too expensive.

Here's an alternative scenario Sony could had done.

PlayStation Vita will be coming out for December 11,2015 for the price of 170$. The PlayStation Vita has Wii level graphics. The PlayStation Vita memory card will be cheap and affordable. The handheld will come out with games from various genres. The upcoming launch games will include

>Counter-Strike source

>Call of Duty

>Rayman Origins

>Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen

>Plants vs. Zombies

The excepted sales units will be 30 million units during its life time. The target market will be teen and early thirty males. The expected lifespan will be five years.

The only reason why Sony made the Vita so expensive is because they wanted a quality level console for the handheld. It appears Sony doesn't understand handhelds at all. People play the handheld to have the handheld experience. Handhelds don't need to be as well as the console though they will eventually get there after years.

Vita meet it's demise by not having a cheap hardware. Vita failed because Sony doesn't understand handheld.

I can't see that much benefits over crossplay. Crossplay will be overhyped. I don't want to see consoles be underpowered just crossplay with handheld. I don't want to see handheld be too powerful or else it will be too expensive to buy. I am skeptical over crossplay feature. It's quite clear the next generation handheld will be the portable Wii U. The next nintendo console will be the playstation 5. The power between these two are quite frankly too big to crossplay.

Conversely, I'm interested to see crossplay being done. I can imagine crossplay doing done between handhelds and consoles version. Wouldn't it be interesting to have Pokemon battles going on about between handheld and console? Technology power isn't an issue. Nintendo DS and Wii was able to pull off cross playing with Pokemon.

I can see crossplay being done with some games quite easily without any compromises. Turn based RPG games can pull it off quite easily.

I knew somebody would use this argument.

If console and handheld can crossplay, it's quite possible to keep the userbase higher. However, I don't see crossplay being beneficial. What actually difference will there be if Call of Duty has a player base of 50,500 vs 500000? A person with the lower install base can find games and still play. I can see the benefit of having a higher install base if the game is close to being dead.

Ever since the gameboy advance and gamecube era, there has been some cross play features. In Zelda's Wind Waker, it's possible to use the gameboy advance to drop bombs on enemies and to help Link in the Gamecube. The gamecube and gameboy advance was an interesting experimentation for crossplay.

However, today, it appears handheld technology caught up with their console counterpart whereas handheld aren't too far behind in firepower. A person is able to play Monster Hunter with the handheld and console version. All of these features appear to be nice, however, is crossplay really that big of a deal? What actually benefits are there for crossplay? The only positive aspect about cross play is that a person doesn't have to buy an extra controller.

Buy the Wii U

Yes they should try to market to teenagers and early 30's. I remember seeing a commercial about the Wii U and it appears like they were trying to target an old lady with Wii Fit. Products need a target audience. People will usually like the product better if they know it's made for them.

Not a blanket statement anymore.
https://mynintendonews.com/2014/08/28/nintendo-reveals-demographics-of-wii-u-eshop-users-males-account-for-93-and-females-only-7/

Mostly males buy Nintendo games if I had to guess. The link I posts proves my point.

Females don't care about Nintendo games. I recall reading the Wii U E Shop statistics for gender. 92% of users were male.

I always thought it was so strange how Nintendo tried to target every single demographic with the Wii. It made me feel like the product wasn't made for me. They should had targeted teens to early 30's with the console.

It appears the female crowd doesn't play Nintendo games that much anyways. Does anyone remember the demographics for Wii U shop owners. 92% of Wii U owners buys were male.