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I'm a bit confused. Are you saying the Vita competes with Consoles and PCs? Surely it competes with phones?

• johnnyanmac 3y ago
  The Vita/3DS had very similar audiences to their console counterparts, despite not necessarily being direct competitors. But you can't think in just games for this to make sense. Remember that the PSP was also a pretty good multimedia device pre-smartphone. So it lost that userbase as it became the Vita. But of course it's primary purpose was games and the Vita focused on that in its western marketing: "console gaming on the go". It couldn't sell itself on mobile style games if it ever expected to succeed, so while it may have overlap I can't say it was a direct smartphone competitor either. And it took similar resources within Sony to develop and market it. Another of a dozen reasons why it failed: Sony decided very early on to put all its chips into the PS4, and ditched first party Vita support after the first year. This woildnt make sense for a phone competitor.
• fomine3 3y ago
  Everyone weren't sure whether mobile console disappearing or not by smartphones getting popular and high performance. Sony tried some weird things like PlayStation Mobile. Nintendo merged consoles as Switch. As a result, it seems that it's a different market.