***** PlayStation Vita Official Thread *****

I fully believe what he tells me. He has no reason to bend the truth, neither do I for that matter. The majority of 'entertainment' products these days are based on hype that gets old very quickly. Customers have latched onto this fact and are thinking twice about where to put their money. It's not like the hay days of the Nintendo NES, SNES and Sega Megadrive. Back then, video games were ground breaking.
For video games to go forward, the industry needs to look at originality. I believe the Vita tried that with the new control system, but it just doesn't cut the mustard. What the industry doesn not need is the same old tripe from the PS3 put onto the Vita. The rinse and repeat formulae only works for so long, especially in economic downturns.
 
purplesky said:
Sales apparently not doing to good according to a friend who is a manager at a large (internet) retail outfit. It appears they were trying to deliberately portray shortages of the vita to make it look like it was massively in demand, when infact the small minority of folks buying it were just that, a small minority, who got their Vita.

Oh... fail!!

My friend said "Looks like we've got another PSP on our hands".
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They see me trolling... they hating :p

That aside, really enjoying playing Persona again :D such a cracking game, I see that the PSN store also has the 2nd and 3rd one. So will prob pick them up once I have completed the first one.
Oh also I was lucky enough to grab one of them Blazblue games from the auction site for 18.99 :D The min I saw it I mashed the buy button lol.
 
purplesky said:
I fully believe what he tells me. He has no reason to bend the truth, neither do I for that matter. The majority of 'entertainment' products these days are based on hype that gets old very quickly. Customers have latched onto this fact and are thinking twice about where to put their money. It's not like the hay days of the Nintendo NES, SNES and Sega Megadrive. Back then, video games were ground breaking.
For video games to go forward, the industry needs to look at originality. I believe the Vita tried that with the new control system, but it just doesn't cut the mustard. What the industry doesn not need is the same old tripe from the PS3 put onto the Vita. The rinse and repeat formulae only works for so long, especially in economic downturns.
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I can make that post above be void by just saying two words...

NEXT GENERATION

Things move on...and get better. That's life. :)

Don't beat yourself up about it. Chill.
 
purplesky said:
I fully believe what he tells me. He has no reason to bend the truth, neither do I for that matter. The majority of 'entertainment' products these days are based on hype that gets old very quickly. Customers have latched onto this fact and are thinking twice about where to put their money. It's not like the hay days of the Nintendo NES, SNES and Sega Megadrive. Back then, video games were ground breaking.
For video games to go forward, the industry needs to look at originality. I believe the Vita tried that with the new control system, but it just doesn't cut the mustard. What the industry doesn not need is the same old tripe from the PS3 put onto the Vita. The rinse and repeat formulae only works for so long, especially in economic downturns.
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That's nice and all, but i'm off to get the train home and play on my vita. :)
 
purplesky said:
I'm not going to name the retailer. It would serve no purpose. If the retailer wishes to go public with the sales figures then that is their prerogative
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Sales figures will be released regardless, so name them and we can go see if they are saying they have a shortage.
 
LOL ok so your comment can't be backed up in any way?

I just looked on all the big retail internet sites and none report any Vita shortage.
 
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