Given the lack of triple A titles slated for release on the Playstation Vita in the coming months, save Killzone Mercenary this September, many industry experts have gone ahead and written off the handheld’s market presence. After all, Sony themselves predicted just last week that the Vita and PSP will sell 5 million units collectively in the coming fiscal year which, compared to Nintendo’s bold 18 million mile marker for 3Ds in the same period, is a significant difference. In an interview with Gamasutra, Sony’s senior business development manager Shahid Kamal Ahmad addressed some of these concerns.
“Sometimes things can happen,” he said, “and they can dramatically change the evolution in terms of sales of a platform. What I can say is that looking back at the performance of different consoles over the course of history, sometimes you’ve had slow starts which have been suddenly sprung into life by a number of activities.
“Sometimes things can happen,” he said, “and they can dramatically change the evolution in terms of sales of a platform. What I can say is that looking back at the performance of different consoles over the course of history, sometimes you’ve had slow starts which have been suddenly sprung into life by a number of activities.
- 5/15/2013
- by Michael Briers
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