@Sakonosolo:
Don't buy it and let this console fail. It doesn't seem to have been a very good idea on Sony's part. The Vita failing I'm sure won't put the company in danger of going under so let it fail and hope Sony learns from its mistakes.
Would you like to elaborate? Just seems you want it to fail for poor reasons?
I mean I'm not a Vita adopter and I'm also not interested in any games right now available on that system.
But I really wish it to succeed because even if they don't compete directly with nintendo it's always good to have options.
And in the end it might sway certain aspects of other systems, the one thing for example I hate about 3ds is region lock.
It's just damn stupid (I'm trying to learn japanese and games are a good and engaging way to do so but region locking makes it to expensive for me)
Now that said I'm also usually not a person that buys day 1 hardware because I got burned many times by that behavior.
I prefer to wait for a 2 generation iteration of a platform.
Waiting for a DS lite was for example a decision I was most content with.
If the Vita gets a second iteration with more battery live I'm probably going to be onboard, if the next 3ds has inbuild dual analogs and gets rid of their region lock I'm on board there too.
Yes I'm all for options.
@Aaronrules380:
I think what people don't realize when they say to not buy a system early is that if nobody does it, the system will die. Launch sales are incredibly important to a system, because if launch sales are bad, games start being cancelled left and right. If you're looking forward to a game that is coming out on a new system and there's at least something you can play on it, it isn't necessarily a bad idea to buy a system early
That might be true to some extent, on the other hand it might force companies to reconsider how they do their launches and followup. I mean Vitas launch was somewhat impressive with all the option but at the end of the day it wasn't a launch with options for every type of gamer. Also this trend of them iterating their systems… on one side I can appreciate it on the other side it just makes it less appealing to buy first generation hardware that often sucks compared to their seconds generation counterpart. And really beyond being a fan that can't wait there aren't many incentives for early adopters.
Sony should fix that and reward their early adopters in my opinion.
Like give them a good game for free. Or make the architecture in such a way that first generation iteration can be upgraded for maybe 30 bucks to have the same capabilities (or at least the most important ones) as the 2 generation hardware.
Yes I'm aware that this might be difficult or maybe impossible but then they should reconsider the whole iteration thing.