The Playstation Vita Catch-All

interstate78 wrote:

Hum, I "bought" Wipeout and Jet Set Radio but they don't appear in my "Download List" on the Vita store ... anybody knows what's up with that?

You should at least be able to find the game on the store again and download it that way. It should have a little red shopping bag buy it showing that you already purchased it.

Hum, I "bought" Wipeout and Jet Set Radio as free PS+ downloads but they don't appear in my "Download List" on the Vita store ... anybody knows what's up with that?

Usually games we get free with PS+ or from purchases will appear there in the order they were bought/downloaded

It pains me that CTR and the R-Type games still aren't on that list of supported PSone games.

BeriAlpha wrote:
psoplayer wrote:

Also, I had a bunch of PSP games sitting on my PS3 (left over from past shopping sprees for my PSP Go) but the only one that showed up in the transfer utility was the one that I downloaded onto my PS3 earlier that night (FFTactics). I know that at least some of them are in the list of "officially supported" PSP games for vita (P3P, Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman, etc). Any insights?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthre... is the best list of compatibility I've found.

Ah, thanks a bunch. I guess this is the secret sauce that should have been up front:

If you download the games from the store on the PS3 and you DON'T install them so that they're still represented as bubbles, then you can transfer them on the PSVita.

I guess have to go re-download a bunch of games

And here's that bragging I was talking about. Half-million PS3s sold, and 160 thousand Vitas. That's not shabby at all.

ahrezmendi wrote:

And here's that bragging I was talking about. Half-million PS3s sold, and 160 thousand Vitas. That's not shabby at all.

Honestly? That's good for the PS3, but for the Vita, that's a death knell.

Tanglebones wrote:
ahrezmendi wrote:

And here's that bragging I was talking about. Half-million PS3s sold, and 160 thousand Vitas. That's not shabby at all.

Honestly? That's good for the PS3, but for the Vita, that's a death knell.

I think they will have to come down in price. I would have thought the package-in bundles would have given them a leg up, but I guess not.

Tanglebones wrote:
ahrezmendi wrote:

And here's that bragging I was talking about. Half-million PS3s sold, and 160 thousand Vitas. That's not shabby at all.

Honestly? That's good for the PS3, but for the Vita, that's a death knell.

Agreed.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/11/29...

PlayStation Vita sales, on the other hand, didn’t fare as well. Sony say they sold 160,000 PlayStation Vita systems during Black Friday week. The boost came from three aggressive $200 Vita bundles with either Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, or Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes included.

For comparison, the Nintendo 3DS sold 250,000 units during Black Friday week and the Nintendo DS sold 275,000 units during the same period. The 3DS was sold with a Super Mario 3D Land bundle for $170. Sony did not provide Black Friday sales figures for the PSP.

Nintendo sold 525 thousand devices. Getting outsold by Nintendo by 4-5 times has been pretty much a weekly occurrence. The Vita has struggled to outsell the PSP, actually.

That tells me that there's a price point that would move people. And it's probably even below $200. $150? I'd be curious to see how the Vita would do with a dramatic price cut.

It might move units at $200 or lower, but it's still being sold at a loss at it's current MSRP. I don't think Sony's in a financial position where they can sell millions of units at a huge loss.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

It might move units at $200 or lower, but it's still being sold at a loss at it's current MSRP. I don't think Sony's in a financial position where they can sell millions of units at a huge loss.

If they make up that loss in PS+ subscriptions, the story will be very different. I think the big win out of that Siliconera article is not the PS3, it's PS+. 259% growth of PS+ subscriptions last week alone is huge. Even if a large portion of that is people getting the free year with their PS3, that could wind up being a lot of conversions to paying subscribers.

I'm not sure Sony would have released those numbers if they weren't kind of pleased.

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

We replaced our Vita when the cost was essentially $140, since the only reason my wife wanted one was to play ACIII.

Sony just announced the 3G Vita with a year of Plus, Unit 13, and 4 gig card for $299.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/...

So in other words 7 free games and a memory card. For some reason I think people are going to complain about the price.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...

For a look at how the numbers have been going each week look here.

If Sony's plan is to compete with Nintendo, they already failed.

Jayhawker wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...

For a look at how the numbers have been going each week look here.

If Sony's plan is to compete with Nintendo, they already failed.

If I'm reading it right the Vita had over 50% increase with the 3DS at 9%. That's probably what Sony really wants people to see.

RoughneckGeek wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

Sony just announced the 3G Vita with a year of Plus, Unit 13, and 4 gig card for $299.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/...

So in other words 7 free games and a memory card. For some reason I think people are going to complain about the price.

A more expensive bundle isn't going to move systems faster Sony. *facepalm*

I'll avoid addressing that so I don't look like a raging fanboy.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

3DS has been out since early 2011. Vita released earlier this year.

I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like the 3DS sold 400K or so units during Black Friday week last year. This was the same week Super Mario 3D Land launched, which boosted sales considerably.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

3DS has been out since early 2011. Vita released earlier this year.

I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like the 3DS sold 400K or so units during Black Friday week last year. This was the same week Super Mario 3D Land launched.

That was post price drop to right? What were the 3DS numbers before that.

That was roughly two months after the price drop. Sales were poor before then, but I don't know the exact numbers.

Jayhawker wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...

For a look at how the numbers have been going each week look here.

If Sony's plan is to compete with Nintendo, they already failed.

That doesn't really answer my question. From what I can tell by googling, Nintendo did not release 3DS sales figures for 2011's last black Friday. They just brought up the Wii and Skyward Sword Figures (over 500,000 each). All they said was that the sales of the 3DS rose 325% compared to the week of November 6th, whatever that means.

I don't know if all of these figures are North America only or what. So, Wikipedia says the 3DS was released March 27, 2011 and the Vita was released Feb. 22, 2012. So, an apples to apples sales figure comparison doesn't exactly work because the 3DS has had about a year's head start building up its brand. At least Sony sold enough Vitas to release some sales figures.

I don't really care all that much about all of this. I just don't think we need to say the sky is falling yet, though.

Edit: Threw in a link...

EverythingsTentative wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...

For a look at how the numbers have been going each week look here.

If Sony's plan is to compete with Nintendo, they already failed.

If I'm reading it right the Vita had over 50% increase with the 3DS at 9%. That's probably what Sony really wants people to see.

RoughneckGeek wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

Sony just announced the 3G Vita with a year of Plus, Unit 13, and 4 gig card for $299.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/...

So in other words 7 free games and a memory card. For some reason I think people are going to complain about the price.

A more expensive bundle isn't going to move systems faster Sony. *facepalm*

I'll avoid addressing that so I don't look like a raging fanboy.

Too late.

The 3DS outsold Vita 615K to 141K, 421K to 89K, 373K to 59K, 269K to 58K, and 226K to 42K over the last five weeks. You have to be one hell of raging fanboy to think Sony likes these numbers. It especially bad when the DS has also outsold the Vita in four of those weeks. It's been neck and neck until last week, when the DS nearly 333K units to the Vita's 141K.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I don't really care all that much about all of this. I just don't think we need to say the sky is falling yet, though.

This. My main gripe is that people immediately jump to this being the end of the Vita, calling it the death knell (no, I'm not calling out Tanglebones here specifically, others have said the same thing earlier in the thread), and I just don't see it.

Yeah, this is not the super amazing first 9 months for the Vita that Sony had hoped for, but it's not the first time this has happened, both to Sony and others. The PS3 had an incredibly rocky start, as did the 3DS. If you want apples to apples, here it is:

3DS launch sales - 374,764
Vita launch sales - 321,407

Just because the system is not flying off shelves does not mean it's a failure.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I forget, how long has the 3DS been out and how long has the Vita been out? I know the 3DS has been out longer. How many 3DSes were sold last Black Friday?

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...

For a look at how the numbers have been going each week look here.

If Sony's plan is to compete with Nintendo, they already failed.

That doesn't really answer my question. From what I can tell by googling, Nintendo did not release 3DS sales figures for 2011's last black Friday. They just brought up the Wii and Skyward Sword Figures (over 500,000 each). All they said was that the sales of the 3DS rose 325% compared to the week of November 6th, whatever that means.

I don't know if all of these figures are North America only or what. So, Wikipedia says the 3DS was released March 27, 2011 and the Vita was released Feb. 22, 2012. So, an apples to apples sales figure comparison doesn't exactly work because the 3DS has had about a year's head start building up its brand. At least Sony sold enough Vitas to release some sales figures.

I don't really care all that much about all of this. I just don't think we need to say the sky is falling yet, though.

Edit: Threw in a link...

Nintendo sold 891,302 3DS's last last year over the Black Friday week. They also sold 340K DS's. Sony chimed in with 189,577 PSP's. Seriously, Sony is playing in a different game, selling to a different market.

By and large, most folks stop playing handhelds once mom and dad stop forcing them to travel with them. Portables sell to young kids. Sony will go broke if they try to match Nintendo's sales but targeting more mature gamers. And from all accounts, Sony is going broke.

ahrezmendi wrote:

Just because the system is not flying off shelves does not mean it's a failure.

This is most certainly true. But I don't see a reasonable outlook in which Sony even approaches Nintendo's numbers. Can Sony be profitable will Nintendo outsells the vita by 3 to 4 times each week? That's the question.

ahrezmendi wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I don't really care all that much about all of this. I just don't think we need to say the sky is falling yet, though.

This. My main gripe is that people immediately jump to this being the end of the Vita, calling it the death knell (no, I'm not calling out Tanglebones here specifically, others have said the same thing earlier in the thread), and I just don't see it.

Yeah, this is not the super amazing first 9 months for the Vita that Sony had hoped for, but it's not the first time this has happened, both to Sony and others. The PS3 had an incredibly rocky start, as did the 3DS. If you want apples to apples, here it is:

3DS launch sales - 374,764
Vita launch sales - 321,407

Just because the system is not flying off shelves does not mean it's a failure.

Oh, I wouldn't say it's a failure - it's a beautiful piece of hardware, and I love the sh*t out of mine. On the other hand, Sony's already in a terribly precarious situation as a corporation. I think that it's going to be increasingly difficult though, for Sony to convince developers to make games for an install base that shows no sign of growing at a rate even close to comparable to its nearest competitors. It's possible that it'll change over time, but the Vita doesn't have a loyalty base like PS3 did when it came out, and there's no signs of upcoming development in the near future to point to it doing better either.

Jayhawker wrote:

Nintendo sold 891,302 3DS's last last year over the Black Friday week.

Wait, whaaaat? Where did you get that figure? I couldn't find any info other than the link I posted.

To late for what? If you mean to say I'm a Vita fan then yes. This is the Vita thread. I'm not as pessimistic about the console as most people.

Jayhawker wrote:

And from all accounts, Sony is going broke.

This is a gigantic logical fallacy. Sony is a huge corporation, with their hands in more pies than any of us can count. They make televisions, cameras, camcorders, video game systems, video playback devices, screens, movies, phones, the list goes on and on.

If you look at the actual breakdown of Sony's last quarter profit/loss statement, you'll find that their Game division is one of the few that actually posted a profit. In fact, they attribute the Vita as the reason why the decrease in sales of PS3/PSP systems was offset, so the Vita brought their revenue back up.

The reason Sony is losing money is because their Televisions are hemorrhaging cash, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Vita, let alone any of their other video game systems.

Can we now stop saying that the Vita is dying, or causing Sony to go broke?

EDIT: Sorry, I'm wrong. The reason Sony is bleeding is because of their Phones, though their TVs are a very close 2nd.

This is off current topic but it came to mind and if it ends up being true I want to be able to say I told you so, not that I think it's logical.

The Vita is going to be a vital (hehe) accessory to the PS4 so much so they are going to bundle it with PS4's