Playstation Vita Presentation Tomorrow

[IBNobody]

The technology behind the memory cards is not what causes their high price - the PSVita's hardware is pretty expensive and on-par with iPad's which sell for much, much more (it's somewhere in-between of an iPad 3 and iPad 4 as far as I know) and as such, Sony needed a perhaptial that will let them bounce back, a piece of hardware that's practically essential for gaming on the console, yet separate not to ramp up the unit's price - a memory card. It was their "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

How did that strategy end up playing out?

 

[UltraHurricane]

The technology behind the memory cards is not what causes their high price - the PSVita's hardware is pretty expensive and on-par with iPad's which sell for much, much more (it's somewhere in-between of an iPad 3 and iPad 4 as far as I know) and as such, Sony needed a perhaptial that will let them bounce back, a piece of hardware that's practically essential for gaming on the console, yet separate not to ramp up the unit's price - a memory card. It was their "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

you know... I can kinda see the logic behind it, it's a shame people still think it's "too expensive" considering the value of hardware there getting and how much power the Vita is capable of

 

[KingVamp]

Hm, I hope its a price cut. I need a new vita to go with my new vita earrings >.>

Maybe they will drop it to $16 dollars and send them through the mail.

 

[Devin]

Awesome can't wait. Looking for some good news.

The 30 Vita owners in the world unite!

 

[Foxi4]

How did that strategy end up playing out?

Not too well... not too well.

you know... I can kinda see the logic behind it, it's a shame people still think it's "too expensive" considering the value of hardware there getting and how much power the Vita is capable of

In hindsight, they should've went the "built-in storage with optional external storage" route. It wouldn't have to be a lot, just about enough to store your saves and a few basic applications just so the buyers wouldn't have to dish out for a memory card Day 1. There's the "4GB argument" since those cards are super-cheap, but in this day and age the general consensus is that "4GB isn't much" and this causes the end buyer to "wait a little and withhold from buying for now" with the "for now" meaning "forever" in some cases. Shame.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Hopefully a redesign of the Vita with an internal storage option is coming.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Awesome can't wait. Looking for some good news.

The 30 5 Vita owners in the world unite!

Fix'd.

 

[Devin]

Fix'd.

 

[IBNobody]

you know... I can kinda see the logic behind it, it's a shame people still think it's "too expensive" considering the value of hardware there getting and how much power the Vita is capable of

I agree. There is value in the hardware that you are getting, just like how the PS3's initial price tag was a steal for BluRay players. It's just that there isn't any way to unlock that value for the Vita except with games.

 

[UltraHurricane]

And besides, they could just pull a Nintendo. Sell the console at a loss, but make up for it with a game sale.

but who is to say they aren't already selling it at a loss? remember it's $160 plus god knows how much money the company spend developing and promoting it, I think it's obvious it costs a ton to releases a new piece of video game hardware

the reason Nintendo was able to do it on the 3DS was because it was cheaper to manufacture (approximately $100); they were just a bit greedy and thought they could sell it at $250 only to realize they're not Apple and not that many people would buy it at that price and there Nintendo anyway, everyone knows they're gonna come out with new mario or zelda that will sell million of units

Sony on the other hand is not sure about the Vita... at all, they don't have as many popular games yet (they don't even have a console-selling monster hunter game yet either) or units for that matter to help make up those losses

 

[ferofax]

A price cut won't help a system that lacks software to play on it. A price cut along with a model that has improved battery life, a price reduction on the memory cards and a large game list announcement are what the system needs right now.

So you're basically saying inject more money into it but slash profit? You want Sony to pay more and expect less in return?

I don't think any business whatsoever will bite something as drastic as that. In fact, I'm pretty confident no business out there will do that unless their pressing concern is to keep afloat instead of actual profit.

 

[OrGoN3]

Let me know when basic launch features are available from Sony (eg, remote play?).

 

[FireGrey]

They will make it completely open source, able to pirate games, emulators and all.
Price drop and free cloud stoarage and new model compatible with MicroSD and SD cards.
Also they will be hosting free downloads to all games on the Playstation Store and declare that Nintendo is better.
Then I MIGHT get one.

 

[YayMii]

Meh, it just finished. Not that interesting.
Only things that piqued my interest is the 5000￥ price drop (expect $50 if/when they drop the price here), and that new gundam game that probably isn't getting localized. Almost everything they showed was JRPGs, although they talked about FFXHD Vita if anyone's interested in that.

 

[chris888222]

Japan is getting a Vita price cut.

I just hope they will show some badass games

EDIT: Internet error. Screw it.

Nothing really that interests me sadly, but it's good that Vita is region free.

 

[Qtis]

A new PSVita 3G + 32 GB memory for 24980¥ is an interesting deal. If they lower the price of the 32 GB memory at the same time, I'm all up for it.

Ice Silver color PSVita released at the same time with Phantasy Star Online 2.

Interesting times :3

Also FFX HD looks pretty good. Square Enix apparently wants to make a great HD remake of the game (most polished of all remakes according to SE Producer Shinji Hashimoto).

 

[gokujr1000]

Wait a second...

Is this that big announcement they were hyping up? I wanted some PS4 details

 

[Qtis]

Is this that big announcement they were hyping up? I wanted some PS4 details

No. That will be in two days (20th February). This was a Japanese PSVita event.

 

[Foxi4]

It was certainly no Nintendo Direct, but they did show a few things:

• PSVita price cut
• New PSVita colour - Ice Silver
• Phantasy Star Online 2 footage and the PSVita bundle
• Soul Sacrifice footage and the PSVita bundle
• Toukiden footage
• Valhalla Knights 3 footage
• The Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Flash footage
• Gundam Breaker footage
• God Eater 2 footage and info on God Eater: Burst save transfer and the free UMD Passport program
• Dragon's Crown footage
• Final Fantasy X HD model test
• Some interviews

Could've been worse, but I'm glad I saw a re-run - I'd probably be disappointed if I stayed up. That said, colour me suprised, a price cut that early was not something I expected.

 

[ForteGospel]

it was expected a price cut... it's not that they are selling at a loss, it's that they are not even selling...

also many people have already said this, but its not that the vita is overpriced hardware wise, its that it's overpriced function wise...

the vita is not a tablet, it's not an ipad and making a comparison to one is retarded... it's like saying that pizza is not overpriced because hamburgers cost more

the vita is a handheld gaming console... so it's logical to compare it with other handheld gaming console, so yes... it shouldn't be priced like the 3ds as it has stronger hardware, but it shouldn't cost 100$ more for the wifi version, 150$ for the 3g version and this is without any memory card...