Its hardly a fair fight; $250 3DS versus $250 PS Vita

Sheep are always saying the 1st Party Games will win it for them.... but look at N64 and GC. 3DS still lacks 3rd Party Support IMO. Its too early to start proclaiming a winner.nitekids2004

Little Big Planet with touchscreen integration is by far the best promise of a handheld game ever.

Elitro

[QUOTE="Videodogg"]

The 3DS really looks over-priced next to the PS Vita. Either Sony is losing a ton of money or Nintendo is really ripping you off. I dont see how the 3DS can hold its price point when the Vita launches.

pencru

They're selling it at a loss.

Nintendo is ripping you off

Considering its hardware isn't as capable as what the Vita is toting, then yes, they are ripping us off.

Yeah, this bothers me personally. On principle alone I know I should wait for a revision or maybe a price drop (or both).

[QUOTE="Kaze_no_Mirai"]

[QUOTE="nitekids2004"]GC and N64 had all the Ninty 1st party games but got stomped in library by PS 1/2...

oh well.. /shrugnitekids2004

Nintendo has had a solid dominance over the handheld market for over two decades. Its a different scenario.

Doesn't matter. THey had a dominance in the console market for a decade as well. Every gen, its a restart.

[QUOTE="aroxx_ab"]

[QUOTE="slothboyadvance"]

Haven't heard that one since 2003.

Kaze_no_Mirai

Ya because all knows it already so not needed to mention.

Not much harcore, whatever you mean with that, i am more of an Casual adult. Mario and Zelda is something i can buy for the kids without worry..

[QUOTE="Kaze_no_Mirai"]

[QUOTE="aroxx_ab"]

Ya because all knows it already so not needed to mention.

aroxx_ab

Not much harcore, whatever you mean with that, i am more of an Casual adult. Mario and Zelda is something i can buy for the kids without worry..

[QUOTE="Elitro"]

Little Big Planet with touchscreen integration is by far the best promise of a handheld game ever.

soulitane

sound shape, little deviant, reality fighter, and gravity daze if you want Vita only experienced

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Nintendo fans on this site have become incredibly stalwart in thier defence of the big N.

Well if The Vita can pull off, Call of duty and battlefield console experience on the go? things will get intereseting

charizard1605

the whole smaller screen thing isnt a big issue, Nintendo has been making a killing off the idea for decades,

Cod and Battlefield have really dedicated following, if the Vita can pull off the transfer from console to handheld as displayed at the sony presser then it could be a win. these people are looking to game on the go with thier friend in clans wherever thet are, I'm not saying its going to set the world on fire but there is a huge market to capture for mobile fps mp. The Vita could the answer.

[QUOTE="soulitane"][QUOTE="Elitro"]

Little Big Planet with touchscreen integration is by far the best promise of a handheld game ever.

r12qi

sound shape, little deviant, reality fighter, and gravity daze if you want Vita only experienced

[QUOTE="soulitane"][QUOTE="Elitro"]

Little Big Planet with touchscreen integration is by far the best promise of a handheld game ever.

r12qi

sound shape, little deviant, reality fighter, and gravity daze if you want Vita only experienced

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="nitekids2004"]

GC and N64 had all the Ninty 1st party games but got stomped in library by PS 1/2...

oh well.. /shrug

nitekids2004

Sheep are always saying the 1st Party Games will win it for them.... but look at N64 and GC. 3DS still lacks 3rd Party Support IMO. Its too early to start proclaiming a winner.

TC is just pointing out the hardware difference and the price. Didn't even understood why it suddenly shifted to games.

Where do opinions come in? Look at that list. That's not even half of the games confirmed to be on the system. I haven't even listed games like Ace Combat, Sonic Generations, Shinobi, Heroes of Ruin, Dead or Alive etc... and that list above represents the 3DS lacking third party support?

There is no room for opinions here. Either the 3DS has the third party support, or it doesn't, and either way, that would be a FACT. The fact is, the 3DS has the third party support. Your opinion would come in if you were to consider whether the third party support APPEALS to you. It can't dismiss the existence of said third party support altogether. Really, that's like me saying 'there is no Playstation 3, IMO.' In 2011.

Is the 3ds price a rip off yes. The hardware is is old

However its hard to make a bad mario game. Just revamp the graphics and add 3ds to the title.

As for vita, if psp has shown anything its that sony doesn't understand the concept of a portable game.

They were selling a Wii for 350$ for years, that's your answer.silversix_

The 3DS actually have games I'm looking forward to. Not so much with the PS Vita.

timmy00

[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

Yeah it's not a fair fight with the 3DS having all those great games and Vita only having Uncharted...

aroxx_ab

Great games for "kids" ya, as always with Kidtendo.

[QUOTE="aroxx_ab"]

[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

Yeah it's not a fair fight with the 3DS having all those great games and Vita only having Uncharted...

Bigboi500

Great games for "kids" ya, as always with Kidtendo.

27 year old kid here. This "bloddy gun games = adult game" ideology is for the tween gamers. Ugh I hate the term tween. I cannot believe I just used it............ GoldenElementXL

This is how the 3DS can hold its price.

1st party titles almost every Nintendo fan wants.

Sorry to say but Sony doesnt have exteremly heavy 1st party hitters like Nintendo does. This fight may be over before it started regardless of the fantastic price of the Vita.

Shirokishi_

Its true that Nintendo has always done well with handhelds but up until the Playstation 1 they had dominated the console market and they also had Mario on those systems yet Sony still beat them for 2 gens...

Things can change depending on how the market reacts to your launch price, your launch offerings, word-of-mouth and 3rd party support for the platform that may find it easier to make games on Sony's handheld rather than Nintendo's?

trolololol first sheeps were **** about the PS Viats battery life saying it would be 4-5 hours, but that was acutally the battery life of the 3ds, after that they were saying the PS vita will be overpriced. but now they know it will cost the same as the 3ds while still being surperior (hardware wise) and now they are saying 3ds mario > PS vita. come on sheeps, dont you think the PS vita will have any games? I have played mario for 10 years now and hate to say this because i loved mario as a chil, but its getting old

For the people saying Mario or other first party Nintendo games will make 3DS beat Vita, are you being serious? I mean really? Didn't exactly help the N64 and GC. And besides, Vita has a ton of great and popular games too. You say Mario is a system seller. What do you think is going to happen when COD makes its debut on Vita? A fully featured online enabled COD, probably with cross platform play with a PS3 COD. The masses will flock to that far quicker than they will for a new Mario. Especially a 3D one, and we all know 3D Mario doesn't begin to touch the sales of 2D Mario. Plus Vita will have better games in general anyway. At the same price as the 3DS, why anyone would get a 3DS instead of Vita is beyond me.

When Sony announced the price for Vita I honestly felt embarassed for Nintendo.

trolololol first sheeps were **** about the PS Viats battery life saying it would be 4-5 hours, but that was acutally the battery life of the 3ds, after that they were saying the PS vita will be overpriced. but now they know it will cost the same as the 3ds while still being surperior (hardware wise) and now they are saying 3ds mario > PS vita. come on sheeps, dont you think the PS vita will have any games? I have played mario for 10 years now and hate to say this because i loved mario as a chil, but its getting old

NWA90s

To me PS Vita will have much better racing games than 3DS IMO like last gen PSP had better racing games than DS.

But at the same time I can almost guarantee that the Vita will have a mediocre lineup whereas Nintendo does have some solid games on the way,

3DS- better games

Vita- better hardware.

trolololol first sheeps were **** about the PS Viats battery life saying it would be 4-5 hours, but that was acutally the battery life of the 3ds, after that they were saying the PS vita will be overpriced. but now they know it will cost the same as the 3ds while still being surperior (hardware wise) and now they are saying 3ds mario > PS vita. come on sheeps, dont you think the PS vita will have any games? I have played mario for 10 years now and hate to say this because i loved mario as a chil, but its getting old

NWA90s

[QUOTE="NWA90s"]

trolololol first sheeps were **** about the PS Viats battery life saying it would be 4-5 hours, but that was acutally the battery life of the 3ds, after that they were saying the PS vita will be overpriced. but now they know it will cost the same as the 3ds while still being surperior (hardware wise) and now they are saying 3ds mario > PS vita. come on sheeps, dont you think the PS vita will have any games? I have played mario for 10 years now and hate to say this because i loved mario as a chil, but its getting old

Bigboi500

3Ds will still outsell the PS Vita. I love how Sony fanboys believe so strongly in Sony. Its hilarious how Sony can do no wrong and they will always win, even though they've done very little winning this gen. The golden Sony days are OVER.

mynamesdenvrmax

:D THIS

For the people saying Mario or other first party Nintendo games will make 3DS beat Vita, are you being serious? I mean really? Didn't exactly help the N64 and GC. And besides, Vita has a ton of great and popular games too. You say Mario is a system seller. What do you think is going to happen when COD makes its debut on Vita? A fully featured online enabled COD, probably with cross platform play with a PS3 COD. The masses will flock to that far quicker than they will for a new Mario. Especially a 3D one, and we all know 3D Mario doesn't begin to touch the sales of 2D Mario. Plus Vita will have better games in general anyway. At the same price as the 3DS, why anyone would get a 3DS instead of Vita is beyond me.

burgeg

[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]

[QUOTE="NWA90s"]

trolololol first sheeps were **** about the PS Viats battery life saying it would be 4-5 hours, but that was acutally the battery life of the 3ds, after that they were saying the PS vita will be overpriced. but now they know it will cost the same as the 3ds while still being surperior (hardware wise) and now they are saying 3ds mario > PS vita. come on sheeps, dont you think the PS vita will have any games? I have played mario for 10 years now and hate to say this because i loved mario as a chil, but its getting old

Zaibach

I'm going to buy both :o

Vita- specs and raw power 3DS- games and innovation Isn't that vaguely familiar to you?khoofia_pika

Vita hasn't been released yet, and the release that 3DS has had has been lackluster. 3DS may have some great games on the horizon, but it cant claim a vastly superior library yet.

And what innovation?

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"]Vita- specs and raw power 3DS- games and innovation Isn't that vaguely familiar to you?hakanakumono

Vita hasn't been released yet, and the release that 3DS has had has been lackluster. 3DS may have some great games on the horizon, but it cant claim a vastly superior library yet.

And what innovation?

[QUOTE="burgeg"]

For the people saying Mario or other first party Nintendo games will make 3DS beat Vita, are you being serious? I mean really? Didn't exactly help the N64 and GC. And besides, Vita has a ton of great and popular games too. You say Mario is a system seller. What do you think is going to happen when COD makes its debut on Vita? A fully featured online enabled COD, probably with cross platform play with a PS3 COD. The masses will flock to that far quicker than they will for a new Mario. Especially a 3D one, and we all know 3D Mario doesn't begin to touch the sales of 2D Mario. Plus Vita will have better games in general anyway. At the same price as the 3DS, why anyone would get a 3DS instead of Vita is beyond me.

timmy00

[QUOTE="timmy00"]

[QUOTE="burgeg"]

For the people saying Mario or other first party Nintendo games will make 3DS beat Vita, are you being serious? I mean really? Didn't exactly help the N64 and GC. And besides, Vita has a ton of great and popular games too. You say Mario is a system seller. What do you think is going to happen when COD makes its debut on Vita? A fully featured online enabled COD, probably with cross platform play with a PS3 COD. The masses will flock to that far quicker than they will for a new Mario. Especially a 3D one, and we all know 3D Mario doesn't begin to touch the sales of 2D Mario. Plus Vita will have better games in general anyway. At the same price as the 3DS, why anyone would get a 3DS instead of Vita is beyond me.

burgeg

Because they're Nintendo fanboys that will blindly buy whatever Nintendo comes out with despite the competition being vastly superior in every imaginable way? Yeah, I get that reason. I mean a real reason. Better hardware. Better games. Same price. Only the most blind of Nintendo fanboys would get a 3DS instead of Vita. At launch the Vita will have a library of games rivalling the entire 3DS library up to that point. As time goes on the gap between the amount of quality games will only widen. When Vita comes out the 3DS will have been out for about 8 months. Vita will have as many good games on day one than 3DS has managed to get in its entire 8 or so months on the market. Now imagine the Vita library 8 months from then. Vita will have a better library than 3DS.

burgeg

[QUOTE="timmy00"]

[QUOTE="burgeg"]

For the people saying Mario or other first party Nintendo games will make 3DS beat Vita, are you being serious? I mean really? Didn't exactly help the N64 and GC. And besides, Vita has a ton of great and popular games too. You say Mario is a system seller. What do you think is going to happen when COD makes its debut on Vita? A fully featured online enabled COD, probably with cross platform play with a PS3 COD. The masses will flock to that far quicker than they will for a new Mario. Especially a 3D one, and we all know 3D Mario doesn't begin to touch the sales of 2D Mario. Plus Vita will have better games in general anyway. At the same price as the 3DS, why anyone would get a 3DS instead of Vita is beyond me.

burgeg

ah I see, so you know the future...

If Gravity daze and Dragon's crown are launch titls for Vita then I'm sold at first day and it will b the first SONY system that I buy at first day :P.

Your right it isn't a fair fight; 3DS will crush Vita :P

for the adults who want the best hardware and best graphics, uncharted, go vita

for the kids who want mario and pokimon for 3ds

[QUOTE="hakanakumono"]

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"]Vita- specs and raw power 3DS- games and innovation Isn't that vaguely familiar to you?khoofia_pika

Vita hasn't been released yet, and the release that 3DS has had has been lackluster. 3DS may have some great games on the horizon, but it cant claim a vastly superior library yet.

And what innovation?

So because Nintendo decided to utilize the 3D without glasses technology, the handheld is "innovative?" Certainly not in any functional way.

All of those games are coming out this year before Vita? That's a fair headstart. But it doesn't mean that the Vita will be without games.

I'm hoping and expecting PS2 like success with the Vita. Sony, don't let me down now. *Crosses fingers*hexashadow13

At this point I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case. Cheap, great launch and exclusives line up, great graphics, backwards compatible with downloadable PSP games, a second analog nub. If it doesn't succeed, I'll be shocked.

[QUOTE="timmy00"]

[QUOTE="burgeg"]

For the people saying Mario or other first party Nintendo games will make 3DS beat Vita, are you being serious? I mean really? Didn't exactly help the N64 and GC. And besides, Vita has a ton of great and popular games too. You say Mario is a system seller. What do you think is going to happen when COD makes its debut on Vita? A fully featured online enabled COD, probably with cross platform play with a PS3 COD. The masses will flock to that far quicker than they will for a new Mario. Especially a 3D one, and we all know 3D Mario doesn't begin to touch the sales of 2D Mario. Plus Vita will have better games in general anyway. At the same price as the 3DS, why anyone would get a 3DS instead of Vita is beyond me.

burgeg

Do you happen to have a crystal ball? Just because Vita may have a good launch lineup does not mean its guaranteed not to slow down next year. Also, games get delayed, and its possible that several of those launch titles could be pushed back. Here's the thing, the 3DS also has excellent third-party support and Nintendo is often quiet about the games that they are developing.

As time goes on, you could see the 3DS emerge with the stronger library while Vita falters. The 3DS is getting Super Mario 3D, Mario Kart, OOT, Starfox 64 3D, and Kid Icarus: Uprising this year. That's four major Nintendo franchises along with a franchise that is finally seeing a new game after so many years. And that's not even counting games like MGS3 and Sonic Generations which are both titles from major franchises.

I won't argue that Vita has a good launch libary, but stop acting like the 3DS will have nothing this year. Nintendo is putting out several hig-profile titles over the course of the year that will ensure the 3DS is in good shape.

In the end, it will all come down to the system that third parties support more. Right now, both handhelds enjoy good support from third-parties.

Could Sony widen the gap and make the Vita a more attractive system for thrid-parites? Of course, but its still too early to write off the 3DS by acting like Vita will blow it out of the water. Nintendo seems to be prepping several major hitters for this year, and it will be difficult for Vita to counter the lineup fully.

Regardless of how good Sony's lineup is, the difficult task will be finding a game that can redirect people away from Super Mario 3D and Mario Kart.

for the adults who want the best hardware and best graphics, uncharted, go vita

for the kids who want mario and pokimon for 3ds

sillaris

Im going with Vita, its a day 1 buy for me. 3DS games dont appeal to me at all, sure i played Mario and Zelda but that was 10 years ago and im sick of the same stories. Galaxy was good but everything else for me is meh. Sony franchises are what matters to me, i also gave the 3DS a chance by playing a few games at BestBuy. Pilot Wings looked like some N64 game.

[QUOTE="sillaris"]

for the adults who want the best hardware and best graphics, uncharted, go vita

for the kids who want mario and pokimon for 3ds

lordlors

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