EA Says PS Vita Has Better Chance Than Nintendo 3DS

I "pity the fool" walking around trying to carry his or her tablet, smart phone, and portable gaming system around every where they go.

I carry a basic phone, a wallet, 2 sets of keys, a pack of cigarettes, and a lighter. You know what? I'm pretty maxed out on personal storage space lol.... In summer, it can be even worse...

Maybe one of those "man-purses" would help alleviate this... lol

People said the same thing about the PSP.

Who even carries a portable gaming device anymore? Besides little kids

Yup, man purses are the future investments.

It's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wore one.

now imagine a handheld that would let you install third party digital distribution software like steam, gfwl, and origin... although the latter isnt the best example, imagine what kind of cheap games we could score for this thing!!!! oh mannnn it would be so DOPE

the ps vita can do ewerything a tablet can. its stronger, faster smaller and play games in s 3 cuality and it has all the buttons

Who even carries a stupid oversized phone that can't make calls?

I'd much rather carry around a PSV in my pocket, that can play games that aren't angry birds or another iteration of Tower Defence, than a tablet.

I do wonder sometimes if the entire population besides me has been bought by tablet manufacturers to constantly say good things about them. I can't see the point!

basic phone - stays in car
a wallet - only carry cash, and only when i am planing to buy things
2 sets of keys - car keys only, the rest stay in the car
a pack of cigarettes - dont smoke, but dad does, keeps them in the car
and a lighter - keeps it in the car.

so for me i have 2-5 pieces of paper, 10 quarters (god do i love arcare machines, and you never know where one will pop up) and a portable game system if i know there is a wait.




so very and sadly true. but how many could we realistically play portably?

Yep, he is right.Tthe protable gaming industry is now at a crossroads. When the PSP and Nintendo DS came out they came out around the time when phones still weren't powerful enough to offer the same graphics as portable gaming devices, but now it's a diff story. More and more phones now are capable of playing games that have the graphics power that can compete with the latest portable gaming devices. The only real way the Nintendo 3DS and ther PSP Vita can compete with phones gaming wise if they cut their prices below 150 dollars. The Nintendo 3DS would sell like hot cakes if they dropped the price down to 99 dollars anmd even though they drop it to 169, it's still a bit too high for many consumors to care for especially in this economy. Sure Nintendo would loose even more money selling it for 99 dollars, but if more people will buy them at that price range more gaming developers will start to develope more games for it, thus the quanity and demand will help Nintendo turn a nice profit in the long run for the Nintendo 3DS. Much like if Sony did the same thing for the Vita and dropped the price down to 149.

i read the title, stopped, and went through comments.

here is what i have to say about the title.

they have the SAME CHANCE...

the 3ds sold poorly because NO GAMES for months, than 1 GAME CAME OUT SO FAR and that is a 10 year old REMAKE, granted whats considerd by many to be the best game ever made, but still a 10 year old remake is the current FLAGSHIP GAME.

the psv can succeed by offering 3 things,
1) a quality shooter day 1
2) uncharted day 1
3) older psp games, to download, with improved resolutions, and possibly patched for dual stick support, over the first month, with day 1 games being metal gear solids, god of wars, and probably monster hunter, but thats more japan than america.

nintendo offered us tech demos, shovel ware, and 1 game worth buying, street figher 4, and it was a lesser version than the console, than months later, zelda came out, after the initial launch, which was a BAD move considering there was no game sense launch till zelda that was worth playing.

i was planing for the 3ds to be a day 1 for me
than i saw the lauch lineup
i decided to wait till zelda
zelda was coming out, and i saw what was released sense launch
decided to wait till 5 must play games come out.

than capcom screwed with the re game, and i have very little faith in any game they make any more, and the one game that would have gotten me to but a 3ds got canned (mml3)

heres hoping the psv at least has a good launch lineup.

I call Vita to be a success, just like EA. I think Sony knows a thing or two about catering to gamers.

not really, we asked for dual sticks sense day 1, and over the 2000 3000 and go, we got nothing...

ill give it to them that they know games better than the 360 or wii do for the "hardcore"
but nintendo has the potentially better games, while the psv has games, while good, would make me want to play them on the ps3 instead...

lets hope for day 1 tv output method.

Europe is full of guys with man purses. I think its funny, but over there you cannot laugh, becuase the ratio to guys without man purses to guys with manpurses is large. Plus the idea of getting wacked by a man purse isn't such a plesent thought

Over the past 4 times going to Europe in 10 years, the man purse thing keeps getting woarse.

Yah I don't smoke, so I subs that for functionality sorry your still in the 90s. Hope that works out for you.

Nintendo 3ds will do better once kids get it for christmas.

Why not add "basic phone" capability to the PSV? Aren't they supposed to have a 3GS version or something anyway? It wouldn't seem like much to add. Nothing crazy. I'd pay an extra hundred bucks for the device, plus I would be able to justify it at work as my "phone".

God people! just buy both of these consoles, they will beat a smartphone any day!!!! they can play music, go on the web, play good games, and can play Netflix. the Vita can also be a phone with Skype. And on account of the man purse, just get pants or shorts with tons of pockets.

Cargo pants, way cooler than the man purse, and it is much harder to tell which pockets are full/empty.
At all times I have:
Panasonic video camera (large)
Wallet (small)
Business Card holder (small)
cell phone (medium, not on the smart phone bandwagon yet, at least not until they are smart)
keys (large, in charge of several buildings)
water bottle or soda (large)

All that with room to spare Still not getting a portable game system though... too expensive and my computer does much better.

Honestly, and I hate to say this, but it would be damned convenient to have a small-medium sized bag to carry stuff around it. So many times when I go out I end up loading up my wife's purse with all kinds of crap that I want to carry (she complains that I treat her like a pack mule). Its not just European guys that get murses either, plenty of Asian guys carry them around too (though androgyny is big in their culture). One of my friends actually carries around a murse and we always refer to it as 'his girlfriend's purse'.

Ignore everything in the article and all of these comments above.

Try to think of a single time EA was right about anything.

I rest my case.

well they have been a successful company since the early 90's so they must the right about a lot of things

Nice try though

aquire westwood, gut it for the franchises, kill off one of the biggest and best (at the time) developers...
their mistakes go on and on, they may not have hurt them financially because most people love being uninformed, but they have wronged us more times than they were good to us.

The problem with phones as a gaming device is the controls. They suck. Angry birds? Come on, that isn't a real game in my opinion. I thing that the little mini games you can by on phones are just that...mini games. A handheld console can provide a much better gaming experience. The 3DS is failing because its just a DSi with 3D capability. The hardware isn't any better than seeing a 3D picture. The Vita is like a portable PS3. I'm not saying that the 3DS isn't powerful, but it isn't superior to the DSi. It's more of like an add-on to the DSi...and Sega can tell you the woes of add-on gadgets.

I wouldn't say this means they have made right choices. The vast majority of their success and where they got was by buying IP's and then ruining them and relying on fan loyalty of the ruined series to continue purchasing it. take Command & Conquer as a prime example of this.
Their CEO not too long ago even came out saying their games have been sub-par.
Also lets not forget their stock price dropped 68% last year. So calling them "successful"
at this point would be highly mistaken.

Their ploy of buying out and cheapening what works for quick profits and sales aren't working for them anymore. Major investors moved on. Now they are so desperate for a buck that Origin spies on its users to the point beyond what would be useful to Origin and sells ALL info collected on the user to third parties.

Oh yes EA has done so much right.

1. 3DS should have been XL size.
2. Any system meant to game should come with analog sticks, and i agree dude above, hdmi out, & support 1080p.
3. Also should have phone, web, and app capability.
4. About the purse.... I swear sex's are changing. Men are becoming chicks and vice versa, but its ok, i need a purse, uh, sachel also.

Sony has never beat Nintendo in the portable market lets see if they could know, EA you know better then this, Hav'nt any of you guys noticed Most people who play portable games are teens and kids this is where Nintendo will own. Wo the hell wants to play a shooter on a portable anyways.

What's with all this talk of men carrying purses? What, are you shrimps so tiny you can't fit much in your pockets? The only thing I couldn't really carry around in my pockets are netbooks and larger tablets. Yes, even a DSi-XL can fit in my pocket. And no, I'm actually not happy to see you.

At any rate, I'd not put much stock in EA's prediction. I *did* try to think of all the times EA was right about something, and as NuclearShadow pointed out, all I could think of were cases where they used already-successful IPs by buying the companies that owned them: making Ultima games like Ultima Online after buying Origin, (coincidentally, most consider Ultima VIII and Ultima IX, the two mainline games made post-acquisition, to have sucked) the The Sims after buying Maxis, and Command & Conquer from buying Westwood. And I'm sure there's some other stories in there as well.

Given that Sony has voiced no real decision to cut the PSV's price, it's likely going to continue to languish. Meanwhile, the 3DS is selling quite decently. Given the way the DS went against the PSP (out-selling it more than 2-to-1) I foresee a similar result here.

Then by that measuring stick we don't really have systems meant for gaming aside from the PC, since true 1080p @60fps is generally beyond the reach of even the PS3.

If you're specifically referring to handhelds, 1080p is a waste; no portable screens support that resolution without being way too large. Even getting close is prohibitively costly: the price for the same size of screen goes up quickly as you shrink the dot pitch. This is a big factor behind the iPhone 4/4S's price in spite of having a SMALLER screen than top-end Android phones: it's the price being paid for that 960x640 resolution.



In other words, you're already predisposed to saying that only phones are the valid handhelds.