And when OLED drops in price, everyone who bought an LCD TV will replace them with OLED TVs just as they did to their old CRT TVs. All this talk of different audiences and markets is hogwash.
So you're comparing something that released in 1986 to something that came out this year? Wouldn't it be better for you to compare the Vita to a Porsche Cayman, something that's still in production?
What the hell are you talking about? The PS3 needs to have games installed onto the hard disk because the Blu-ray drive is so incredibly slow to read. Sony weren't even planning to include the hard drive with the console at first, but when it seemed obvious to them that they had a big problem with Blu-ray, they had no choice in the end thus making losses even bigger for them. Just think of the extra money Sony could've made if they didn't need to include an expensive hard disk with every console. Well in a way it's still better than what they're doing with the Vita and its memory storage...
The PS3 was a sloppily conceived system. Sony tried to kill two birds with one stone by winning the console market and the format war, well the ended up winning the format war (but are now losing out to digital services) but they ended up losing the console war in spectacular style. From first place, to last. People wanted a games machine, not something that costs $200 more than the competition while offering little much else.
The Blu-ray player in the PS3 is so incredibly slow that games have to be installed onto the hard drive.
Expense is expense at the end of the day. Sony have lost a massive amount of market share to Microsoft while losing at least 4 billion dollars in the process.
So then, tell us, did you ever own a CRT television before liquid crystal displays became cheaper? Also, did you ever have a VHS player before you bought a DVD player? The little man who lives in my yard told me that they still mass-produce CRT monitors and VHS players for the nonusexistentus market which prefers them over LCD TVs and Blu-ray players.
Oh yeah, and I am sure there are going to be 8 million Porche cars sold by the end of March next year.
People believed the PS3 was expensive because it was going to be so much better than the 360. Well guess what? It wasn't. Sony have no one to blame but themselves for the PS3 mess.
You like to throw the casual tag around a lot, particularly when it suits you.
Look at Japan, all the PSP owners are now graduating to the 3DS, not the Vita, and with Monster Hunter now with Nintendo.... how can you argue that they're targeting different markets? Nintendo has something for everyone, they don't just focus on young people. It's a myth that gets thrown around a lot, but it just doesn't stick in the end.
You've outdone yourself in the "dumbest-things-that-could-be-said-in-a-comment" department.
OLED TVs aren't aimed at a different market or audience, why would you think that? It's new technology and therefore expensive which is why people are still buying LCDs, over time as prices come down OLED will become the dominant TV technology.
Lol @ your second point. If you don't think the 3DS is competition to the Vita then what can be said to you?
If you think the Vita is just having a 'slow start', then it is no wonder you're so confident about it. The 3DS was in dire straits before sales exploded after the price drop - you should know that the Vita is selling far worse than the 3DS ever did.
Sony realise how badly the Vita is selling (software sales are even more worrying) and naturally they would rather not talk about them up straight. In Sony's situation, they have disappointed investors time after time and it is no wonder that their stock value has dropped 41% in a year. Sony need to be honest with investors and even themselves sooner or later or they will end up destroying themselves.
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