It should be. Someone should put the platform out of its misery already.
No games. Crappy hardware. Full of gimmicks.
Pfff bwahaha. Sorry. I could not even keep a straight face while writing that. :-)
In all honesty, VITA should have entered it's first holiday season in the US and EU in 2011 (like in Japan). So, in a way the people who state 'VITA is too late' and 'the market was yesterday', are kind of correct. But hindsight (as they say) is 20/20. With the Japanese Tsunami affecting Sony and Sony being mum on whether they really where planting the seeds correctly for VITA on day one (sorry to use a horrible metaphor!), we will never know if SCEA/E could have launched the VITA earlier.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/sony-playstation-vita-delayed_n_918041.html
When taking into consideration 3DS and the mobile/tablet user base, a fraction of the consumers who bought those devices could have been introduced to VITA at the right time and bought a VITA. Instead, VITA must now succeed from a third slot (behind mobile and 3DS). A very unfavorable position indeed!
No need to fret, though! Sony are good with keeping the Playstation brand competitive, so the VITA is not going to be failure and something tells me Sony will find the worldwide audience for VITA before long. How will this happen? I honestly have no idea!Okay, I have some idea. The long and short of it is, Sony are "slimming down" and cutting off departments that are not like SCE while at the same time giving money (from sold pieces) to SCE so they can invest in new pieces (like Gaikai and future PS4 stuffs). So, VITA will likely fit somewhere in between the strategy we see SCE doing now and Sony doing overall. Some stuff will be slimmed down and more money will be put into other VITA related aspects.
Very vague. I know. :-)
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