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Re: Sony Silent About Vita Sales in Quarterly Report

UnawareQuagsire

@get2sammyb I know that Sony has more 1st party games...this gen. But they've focused a lot more on multi-platforms. They need to constantly create new characters they can exploit, while not forgetting on the current characters.

PS2 had 3 new Sly Cooper games. PS3 has none.
PS2 had 4 new Jak and Daxter games. PS3

Re: Sony Silent About Vita Sales in Quarterly Report

UnawareQuagsire

I feel sorry for them. While bankruptcy is inevitable now, Sony could've avoided this. In PS1 and PS2 era, Sony ruled with cheap systems, easy to pirate and a good library (which is why Wii had success, along with gimmicks).

Now, they released a expensive hardware, few 1st party games and almost unhackable. Now, don't give me that bull that piracy hurt sales. It's the other way around: the Nintendo DS owned last gen because it was so easy to hack, but mainly because it had good games.

There are a few things they can do in a attempt to save themselves for further debts:

-Make better games. Uncharted GA was poorly and lazily developed.
-Stop with the proprietary hardware. Vita should have had Micro SD support or at least M2 support.
-Stop copying Nintendo. I know that all companies copy between themselves. Nintendo has a lot of MS and Sony original features (WiiU GamePad, Nintendo Network). But they can get away with that because they make more original stuff. Has the PS Move been nothing more than a blunder? Did the Move improve sales?
-Don't sell overpriced stuff.

With these 4 simple steps, Sony could lower their debts a lot. Do you guys know why Android had much more success than iOS in the past months? Because most of their devices have generic accessories, like Micro SD support, and because it's easy to hack and edit.

If anything, Sony should not imitate Nintendo but Samsung, which has been kicking Sony's ass on almost any electronic device, such as radios, tvs, etc. Even smartphones are way better with Galaxy S3.

Should Sony die, I will have to rely on Nintendo+Steam, which is something I do not want to do. So Please, Hirai, I hope you realize that the cheaper and simpler, the better for the masses.