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Sony Will Not Cut Vita's Price In 2012

Posted on Thursday, August 16 @ 10:15:00 Eastern by Keri_Honea


In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Shuhei Yoshida of Worldwide Studios said that even though the Sony engineers are working toward a method of reducing manufacturing costs of the Vita, there will not be a price cut before the end of 2012.

Yoshida instead hopes that Vita bundles with games like LittleBigPlanet and Call of Duty will be enough to intrigue potential buyers.

"Of course, cost reduction is one area our engineering team is working on. But we just launched the platform earlier this year. It takes time to do so," he said. "At a certain point in the future we would like to address the pricing issue for some of the people who are waiting. But this year we are trying to add value by creating different types of bundles."

So what about the Vita's software problem? If you aren't going to cut the price of the Vita, don't you need software outside of bundles to encourage buyers? Yoshida acknowledged this concern as well, and he said that adding new games is a top priority for the Vita.

That's great and all, but we need to see this software priority in action, don't you think? That aside, do you think LBP for the Vita and CoD are enough to drive sales?
Related Games:   Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, LittleBigPlanet (PlayStation Vita)
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  • sg4real
    sg4real
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 10:56 am
    I got mine in a bundle at gamestop not long ago vita + game + starter kit that included a 4gb card 249$
    Not bad... but for the people that want the 3g and the best card and stuff, it can get pretty expensive...
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  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 11:02 am
    Instead of a price reduction they NEED to bundle the memory cards with the device, and preferably bundle in a game as well.
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  • ShadeTail
    ShadeTail
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
    Definitely bundle the memory cards at the very least. It's ridiculous that you need to buy them separately, especially considering how expensive they are. For that matter, they should make the Vita work with any SD card, rather than force customers to buy those stupidly expensive proprietary cards.
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  • sg4real
    sg4real
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
    Yeah that would be nice, I'd move my 32gb card from my 3ds into my vita :)
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  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 11:09 am
    I don't think a price cut is gonna boost sales, there are other contributing factors...
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  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
    Looking directly in the face of completely nonexistent Vita sale, it looks like Sony just flipped up both of their middle fingers at us. Well guess what Sony, you wanna play hardball I got somethin for ya...my money is staying right in my pocket. How does that sound?
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  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
    Vita sales*
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  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander
    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
    Definitely agree with the need for software. There just aren't enough games out there to justify spending the money on the hardware.
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  • Imnickson
    Imnickson
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Aug 16th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
    LBP and COD? Are they they only two games that you guys are aware of? What about Persona 4?, AC III, PS All-Stars, SF X Tekken, NFS, Ragnarok Odyssey, Silent Hill: BOM and that's off the top of my head. And as of this writing they are scheduled to release this year. That doesn't even count the games already out.

    Plus the Vita is not that expensive. Have we already forgotten the $400-600 current get console launches? I know someone is going to say, "But they are consoles". Exactly, this is a console that can fit in my pocket. We pay $200 (or $600 if you don't like contracts) every two years for new phones but complain about paying $250 for a console with a 5+ year life cycle.

    The only reason anyone is expecting a price drop already is because of the 3DS. There has never been a price drop so quick on any console.
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