No, hear me out.
Sony is struggling hard to be relevant in their own hometurf, as Nintendo and PC dominates the japanese market.
Let's go straight to the facts:
1) Nintendo dominates every single one of the top 30 best selling games in Japan:
2) Playstation 5 is struggling in Japan:
3) PS5 Games are also selling badly in Japan:
4) PC Gaming is on the rise in Japan for many years now:
5) Sony is getting serious into PC Gaming:
6) Sony is reportedly changing its exclusive strategy to bring its games to PC very close to the PS5 release:
So here is the plan: the PS Vita failed because it struggled to get exclusive games, third party support and security reasons (proprietary formats).
The Sony Steam Deck would solve all this problems at once.
It could also play Sony Studios exclusive games.
AND be like a Nintendo Switch, portable and TV compatible, but better.
AND offer cloud gaming via PS Now.
That is it: the PS Vita successor we always dreamt of is the (Sony) Steam Deck!
Sony is struggling hard to be relevant in their own hometurf, as Nintendo and PC dominates the japanese market.
Let's go straight to the facts:
1) Nintendo dominates every single one of the top 30 best selling games in Japan:
Every single game in the top 30 of japanese software sales last week was a Switch game
https://www.famitsu.com/ranking/game-sales/ First time it's ever happened. Nintendo has completed their utter domination of the market.
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2) Playstation 5 is struggling in Japan:
GamingBolt: Sony and PS5's performance in Japan is becoming a grave concern
Wow this is getting a lot of exposure. The internet is on fire regarding PS5's troublesome hardware and software sales in their native territory, and the damage it's doing to Sony's worldwide marketshare. This (PS5's performance in Japan) is honestly shocking, because even though Nintendo has...
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3) PS5 Games are also selling badly in Japan:
Japanese retailer express disappointment over low PS5 games sales due to lack of PS5 owners
https://m.gamer.com.tw/forum/C.php?bsn=60076&page=&snA=6699667&last= Japanese tv station recently did a check in a game store, and the owner claims that they have a hard time selling their PS5 games because there’s too few PS5 owners. In fact its worse than PS4 launch. On a lucky month they...
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4) PC Gaming is on the rise in Japan for many years now:
How Japan learned to love PC gaming again
Since 2010, Japan has embraced the PC. Developers talk about the challenges they overcame to make it happen.
www.pcgamer.com
5) Sony is getting serious into PC Gaming:
Sony comfirms Nixxes was bought to help with PC ports
"We are also happy with our efforts to provide our IP to PCs, although it is still in its infancy, and we look forward to working with Nixxes (*) to help with that. (* A Dutch studio specializing in porting the PC version announced by SIE earlier this month"...
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6) Sony is reportedly changing its exclusive strategy to bring its games to PC very close to the PS5 release:
Rumor - Hundreds of games release dates may have been leaked (again) on Nvidia
According to Github user Woctezuma (Source: Reddit) "This is a list of GeForce games which have a future release date. Data comes from the GeForce leak, and is purged of Ubisoft games." https://gist.github.com/woctezuma/a1252976913713390963b745fbc51e73#file-geforce_leak-csv New link (thx to...
www.neogaf.com
So here is the plan: the PS Vita failed because it struggled to get exclusive games, third party support and security reasons (proprietary formats).
The Sony Steam Deck would solve all this problems at once.
It could also play Sony Studios exclusive games.
AND be like a Nintendo Switch, portable and TV compatible, but better.
AND offer cloud gaming via PS Now.
That is it: the PS Vita successor we always dreamt of is the (Sony) Steam Deck!