Back then, when Apple had <5% marketshare, they had to find ways to make their image / product enticing. Catch phrases like genius, speical, different, unique and etc. gets you some attention, but still didn't do much until the product was actually good, like starting with iPod.
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Back then, when Apple had <5% marketshare, they had to find ways to make their image / product enticing. Catch phrases like genius, speical, different, unique and etc. gets you some attention, but still didn't do much until the product was actually good, like starting with iPod.
BFIB
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Eh, I learned to not hold out for those reasons a long time ago. I'll buy in at the launch price, knowing that a drop is most likely inevitable. I know I'll get plenty of use out of the device, so if you know you'll be using it a lot, I say go for it.
Besides, if for whatever reason Sony panics and drops the price sooner rather than later, they'll probably take the Nintendo approach and offer something for those who bought in early.
Darklor01
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Could be a shipping date. As of right now, Amazon.com still has my FEB with release date shipping as "Not Shipped Yet". Usually, before they ship, the status updates to something like preparing for shipment or something like that. Everything else I've ordered has already been shipped, and received.
Diseased Yak
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FedEx just dropped off some stuff. I got Uncharted in, 32GB memory card, and the official cradle.
The game cases are so tiny! They're like cute little mini blu-ray cases. I'm probably going to be forced to buy a lot of stuff in physical format just to have the cases on a shelf...
The game cases are so tiny! They're like cute little mini blu-ray cases. I'm probably going to be forced to buy a lot of stuff in physical format just to have the cases on a shelf...
madmaxx350
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Old? Super Stardust launch day DLC detailed:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012...+(PlayStation.Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Good to know. I already bought it standalone
Fuck I had already bought the game lol, that's what I get for reading gaf and knowing the games were online lol, I'll get the DLC in a couple of weeks.
Castor Krieg
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Price drop is inevitable because in order to sell to masses you need $199 or lower. However, do not compare 3DS launch with Vita. Vita has a solid launch line-up, 3DS had nothing.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Personally, I found my time and sanity worth more than $50 (assuming that would be the price cut) to me.
I can just buy it now for launch price and enjoy it instead of spending months agonizing and wishing I had it.
Yeah, that sucks. But this is why I avoided the temptation to jump the gun, and download games that I couldn't play until this week anyways. I'll be waiting until Tuesday, after the Store updates. Plenty of time for things to download, and be ready for the Vita on Wednesday!
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I think it's absurd that the DLC is almost as much as the game itself. I think I'm gonna wait for a sale. I usually hesitate on buying stuff past the 9.99 point and I hate day one DLC (especially when the game is already up)
Peterthumpa
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Wut? FIFA, Hustle Kings, Escape Plan, UMvC3, Lumines... all coming out tomorrow?
Baconsammy
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If I was a betting man, I'd bet on what he said. I actually am betting on it by only buying one launch game and then waiting for the price drops and deals to start rolling in over the coming weeks.
Peterthumpa
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Absolutely nothing against the DLC here. The full game already has more content than the PS3 version. This is a good case where we cannot say that the game was trimmed down to justify an early DLC release.
Takamura-San
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Sooo.
Rayman
Lumines
And maybe Marvel..
Soo Good...
They go up when? Tomorrow at noon?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
While you may be right, the DLC is only 2 dollars cheaper than the full game. I don't necessarily think we're not getting a proper money's worth or anything but I do feel that it should be 5 and not 8. They should have just put it all together for 15 regardless.
Auto_aim1
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Waiting for an eventual price drop isn't a wise move if you really want the Vita. I don't think they will be dropping the price this year.
Probably Japanese sales and how the 3DS bombed at $250 price point
Pagusas
Elden Member
The fact that the mobile market place has been displaced, theres no real clamor about the device outside of Gaf, 3DS took a price drop to get going, $250 is expensive for a mobile device competing against ipads/ipods/fires and the market just isnt the same as it was when PSP launched (and even that was a less than stellar launch that fizzled into what the PSP market is here now).
All the signs point to this being a very hard market to succeed in.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Whenever Grace Chen feels like it.
I'd hold out just in case for a price drop. Hell, a lot of new hardware have hardware issues prior to launch anyways. Always safe to wait a bit. I'm personally waiting for better software
outunderthestars
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There will be some gift card/free game promo's soon if the system doesn't sell well in the weeks after launch. I've decided to wait as well.
pharmboy044
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They will be dropping the price but most likely around Christmas. (no proof, just a gut feeling)
phosphor112
Banned
My vita hasn't shipped yet... it's 11:15 am here... It better be at my house on Wednesday >=/
The Elite
BOSS
That's a lot of time.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I honestly don't think they can afford to drop the price anytime soon though. Sure, Nintendo did, but the 3DS is also not the technical powerhouse that the Vita is. Sony is already in bad financial shape, losing more on each Vita sold would not be good.
I think the Vita has a chance to succeed in the mobile market. As long as Sony can get that $50 million ad campaign going and show that the system has games you can't play on your phone (not to mention joysticks) they can capitalize on the folks who want awesome console-style games on a handheld device.
Takamura-San
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The problem with the 3DS was that it was targeting outside of where it had always succeeded (kids and casuals) with a $250 device aimed at more hardcore gamers. It failed in that regard until it refocused, cut the price to a more acceptable one for kids/casuals, and pumped the market with a ton of first party Nintendo franchises.
The Vita aims at the $250 hardcore gamer market much like the 3DS, but unlike Nintendo Sony has the games and the hardware to actually be much more attractive to said market. It will succeed much, much better than the 3DS at it's launch. How it will do in the longterm is more unknown.
Pagusas
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I truly hope it does and succeeds, I just know the odds are stacked against them at the moment.
The Elite
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At noon?
Ha. So cute.
Grace Chen is amused.
Edit: Seriously though. I wonder if they will move up the release time for these games on Tuesdays. I'm sure DD people don't want to wait around to grab their game when their physical-only counterparts are playing it already.
I'm leaning towards only picking up Escape Plan, SSD and Sound Shapes at launch. Lumines would be a no brainer, but that price is a no no. I would love to have the digital version, but I can wait a few weeks and pickup the cart when they're inevitably discounted. Same goes for Rayman.
Between PSP games and these cheaper PSN titles, its easy to see why they seem to be in no rush to allow PSX playback. I'm dying to see what Soul Reaver and the RE games look like on that screen.
What's the current status of Playstation Suite?
Between PSP games and these cheaper PSN titles, its easy to see why they seem to be in no rush to allow PSX playback. I'm dying to see what Soul Reaver and the RE games look like on that screen.
What's the current status of Playstation Suite?
phosphor112
Banned
Someone make a new thread for Vita Launch reviews...
I consolidated a lot of what was posted here...
Someone else manage it, my carpal tunnel isn't going to allow me to do constant updates...
Props to DMeisterJ for most of the work.
I consolidated a lot of what was posted here...
Someone else manage it, my carpal tunnel isn't going to allow me to do constant updates...
Props to DMeisterJ for most of the work.
Yeah I'm waiting for it too.
outunderthestars
Banned
So this will be the last Modnation Racers game then?
That estimate only gives half the picture. It does not cover logictics, packaging, marketing and R&D costs. It also doesn't tell us the impact of Yen. Andrew House said that Vita's profit recovery will depend on the strength of Yen, suggesting that they lose some money for Vita at the moment.
Because you love Monster Hunter, or because it's make-or-break for the system's longevity?
Latest we heard is in the "Vita OS also designed in mind for other mobile devices" thread.
PS Suite is one of their focii this year. Private SDK beta started last November. PS Suite store soft launched on Tablet S in around the same time period. Expected to launch on Vita and other Android devices in Spring 2012.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Everyone will bring up a title like that as if it has any worldwide bearing on the Vita's success. Maybe Japan but that's it. I look forward to it one day though but that's not really the point.
MattyH
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if im honest its a little bit of both i mean the launch line up seems solid but need to see where we will be with solid titles 6 months or so down the line
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