Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita, who have long been playing as portable game machines, are 'dying'


by baron valium

Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS and Sony's PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) that appeared in the same year 2011, but their presence is getting faded year after year. The current state of such Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita is summarized by overseas game media Kotaku.

The 3DS Is Even Dying Better Than The Vita
https://kotaku.com/the-3ds-is-even-dying-better-than-the-vita-1832395229

Like Nintendo's mobile game machine Nintendo 3DS, which appeared in 2011 as well as PS Vita, the number of release titles has been decreasing year by year, even including free software there were only 39 release titles in 2018. In PS Vita as well, the number of released titles has been decreasing year by year, but there are 73 release titles in 2018, and more software than Nintendo 3DS is on sale.

Looking further ahead, you can see that the future of Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita is quite uncertain.

The Nintendo 3DS title scheduled to be released in Japan in 2019 is " Karous - The Beast of Re: Eden - " released on February 6th and " Kirby Plus of Yarn " released on March 7th, released in winter this year Only planned " Great Strategy Greater East Asia ___ ___ History DX ~ World War II ~ " and the " Mobile Ball " scheduled to be released in spring only.

Kirby plus introduction video of yarn - YouTube


According to Kotaku, the title of Nintendo 3DS sold in the United States in 2019 seems to be only " Persona Q 2 New Cinema Labyrinth " at the time of article creation. Given the increasing number of "remastered version" and "ported version" in recent years, although there is a possibility that a title for Nintendo 3DS may appear, it is obvious that the title for Nintendo 3DS in 2019 is quite small .

11/29 released! 【PQ2】 Persona Q2 New Cinema Labyrinth PV # 02 - YouTube


Although neither game machine plans to release almost new titles in 2019, PS Vita will be the first to finish providing PS Vita compatible content in PlayStation Plus free play on Friday, March 8, 2019 I am announcing something and preparing it. Kotaku wrote, "Although Sony got the lesson of" Playing great games with great game machines "on PlayStation 4, they could not change the fate of PS Vita."

Also, in case of PS Vita, " Catherine · Full Body " will be released on February 14, 2019 in Japan, and there will be a package version of " Spelunky " will be released in North America. Furthermore, in North America, " Fate / EXTELLA LINK " titled for PS Vita will be released in March 2019. However, Sony is supposed to finish the production of the package version of titles for PS Vita on March 31, 2019, and since April 2019 it is seen that PS Vita will not release packaged software So, as with Nintendo 3DS, you can expect that the number of release titles in 2019 will be considerably less.

I came through the panties and have experienced a trial of "Catherine Full Body" filled with Muhufu's temptation - GIGAZINE



Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita were launched in 2011, but Nintendo 3DS made good use of popular IP such as Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, etc. as successor to Nintendo DS, the most popular game machine sold in Nintendo history I succeeded in stretching. On the other hand, PS Vita competed with titles like " Uncharted Adventure Starting Uncharted " or " KILLZONE: MERCENARY ", but I could not get popularity like Nintendo 3DS, "I ended up with Sony It was decided to be done. "

According to Nintendo's data as of December 2018, the cumulative sales volume of Nintendo 3DS is 74.84 million units, and the cumulative number of sales of software is 377.97 million. On the other hand, Sony has not announced sales volume data of PS Vita that has closed early, so its detailed sales volume is unknown. Sony has set the cumulative sales volume of PS Vita as of spring 2013 to about 7 million units, and the unit sales in 2014 was 4.1 million units. After that, Sony stopped releasing detailed figures, but Wikipedia says that the world cumulative sales volume is 15.79 million .

Sony thought that PS Vita gave up to PS Vita as soon as it got sluggish, but as pointed out by PlayStation Plus's free play that "PS Vita became a game machine that can be played for a long time", as some pointed out Users have been loved for a long time.

Thanks to PlayStation Plus's free play that allows you to play free games PS Vita has become a game machine that you can play for a long time - GIGAZINE



PS Vita feels that the end of the platform will soon be near as soon as the end of free play and packaged software of PlayStation Plus nearly nintendo 3DS with almost no release title in 2019 is near. Although it is two portable game machines that have been loved for many years since 2011, is it whether the successor will appear, or will game machines that can deal with both stationary and portable like the Nintendo Switch replace? It is likely that more attention will be gathered at the end.

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