Sony gives up on vita, ending first party development
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[QUOTE=Xystus234;48966878]great, now leave the market share to suped up gaming phones with built in graphics cards
coming in 2019[/QUOTE]
Doesn't Sony have the PSPhone?
Sony never understood how to sell a handheld, they had the same issue with the PSP. Far too few unique games, and oftentimes too few games that lend themselves to play... on the go. Vita was to the PS3 as the PSP was to the PS2, that is they both were overused to make scaled down versions of console games more than about anything else. Nintendo on the other hand, rarely releases games across multiple platforms, but instead focuses on making unique experiences for each system.
Due to this, *shocker*, they have sold well over 5x as many units, and as long as you aren't looking for weeaboo games then generally the 3DS library is much better quality imo.
I'll probably get a Vita when I can find one cheap just to put custom firmware on it to emulate stuff. PSP was great for emulation, but I'd love to have something with two sticks.
[QUOTE=matt000024;48967005]I'll probably get a Vita when I can find one cheap just to put custom firmware on it to emulate stuff. PSP was great for emulation, but I'd love to have something with two sticks.[/QUOTE]
Black Friday perhaps, but the hacking scene needs to take off more. There's been a few workaround for older firmwares using some random game found on the PSN that had a certain code in it that had yet to be updated properly to make use of the Lockdown code that Sony had.
Within a day, the game would be pulled from the store and a patch would be pushed out. Sony really did have a tight lock on the device.
Still, if you can find one for cheap that comes with a decent size memory card, it's a decent media machine.
Maybe if you'd put some actual effort into it, it would've fared a lot better, assholes.
If I ever even cared about certain Vita titles, i'd just get a Playstation TV system to play PSP and PSVita games rather than the damn Vita itself. And even then i'm weary about those fucking memory cards because that's all they really give you as an option for space even on something you plug into a TV like a console.
Vita also plays PSP games.
And N64 games, if you were one of the luckier people able to get one of the cracks before they were patched.
ive probably gotten about 200 hours or more from project diva f 1 and 2, my vita was a great investment
It's a shame because the Vita is pretty much the closest we ever got to a AAA quality mobile gaming platform. It's probably the best mobile gaming platform I've ever had.
The Vita is great if you are/know Japanese. Ive been importing lots of Vita games from Japan. Lots of great RPG's and Visual Novels. Just depends what you're into.
Proprietary memory cards and trying to split the Vita up between the original handheld and Vita TV (which at the very least led to control discrepancies between the Vita's own inputs and the DualShock3) made the platform a mess. If they had put a TV port into it in the beginning like the PSP and used basic SD cards, it would've fared better. Position it as a cheap platform for sustaining PS3-caliber experiences that you could also take on the go (PS3 Nomad?), while the PS4 became the new flagship.
Well Shit, what could have been i wonder.
I'm happy with my Vita, bought it on September and I already planned to play some published games so I don't care too much about first parties tbh.
Also to be fair, there were hardly any retail first party Sony games published on the Vita to begin with. So this shouldn't really change things too much. The majority of the love has been coming from third party devs all along.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;48966721]PC won't be japan's main choice for a looong time[/QUOTE]
Neptunia games are really taking off on Steam. Only a matter of time
[QUOTE=maxumym;48966577]Watch it continue to survive for years because of third-party support, the fanbase's extremely high attach rate and the niche it found.
Really, Sony's been trying to indirectly kill Vita for years and they still haven't succeeded.[/QUOTE]
Sony murdered the Vita when they announced it would require to use all that proprietary shit and locking it to one account
[QUOTE=TheJoker;48966585]I'd buy one but I'm not spending $60 just for a 32 GB memory card[/QUOTE]
see that's the kind of shit that killed it Sony got away with it for the PSP because the mobile market was still not as big but now it real hurted them
Bought it for PS1 games, hope i won't be disappointed
Really glad to see the Vita love in this thread. I was hyped as shit for Vita and even created a megathread here for it. But as time went on, it became more and more apparent that Sony either had no idea how to sell the Vita and at times even seemed to deliberately cripple the platform.
It's still the best handheld I've ever owned despite of this; I just wish it would have sold more to warrant a few more games. Still, I have over 400 hours in Persona 4 Golden alone (FFXHD is pushing in the hundreds of hours as well).
If Vita ever gets cracked and gets CFW like the PSP; it'll be the greatest day ever.
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If Vita ever gets cracked and gets CFW like the PSP; it'll be the greatest day ever.[/QUOTE]
I've considered buying one for just in case this ever happens because then they're going to stop being cheap on ebay
What are good Vita games that aren't ports, sports, or Japanese? It seemed like the type of thing where nothing worthwhile was ever coming out.
[QUOTE=kill3r;48967787]Bought it for PS1 games, hope i won't be disappointed[/QUOTE]
You bought a Vita for PS1 games...
Why didn't you just buy the far cheaper PSP, which can pretty much play the entire PS1 library.
Damn, good thing I decided to get a New 3DS XL my last paycheck instead of a Vita.
[QUOTE=jonu67;48967836]You bought a Vita for PS1 games...
Why didn't you just buy the far cheaper PSP, which can pretty much play the entire PS1 library.[/QUOTE]
yea the PS Vita won't be that much better for it either you still have to deal with the werid screen border thing eitherwaty
And I just fixed my Vita too.
Oh well, at least I still have Senran Kagura.
[QUOTE=Keelwar;48966566]it's a great platform for [B]mobile jrpgs[/B], and you'd think there'd be a [B]bigger market[/B]![/QUOTE]
Those two terms are complete opposites, sir.
I can't believe I bought the limited edition launch PS Vita
I got to stare at it on my desk with no games a week before the vita was sold in stores
[QUOTE=spekter;48966702]
Make battery life actually feasible.
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Umm, what?
It has the best battery life for a portable gaming device I have ever seen.
Have you seen how terrible 3DS' is?
I just remembered PSVITA has helldivers and you can crossplay with PS3 and PS4 players.
Well that's the only nonJRPG I can think of
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;48968630]Still bought the original model anyways (for the oled screen) and the regret hasn't set in quite yet, but I'm ready for it after I've beaten everything.
It's Sony's fault 110% though that they killed it so soon after they launched it.
And apparently they neutered PS Now's library of games so streaming isn't anything special and they took down a shit load of PS3 games they had for it even though the Vita is totally capable.
I'm getting better battery life on mine than any of the reviews I'd read, the gimmick controls are neat in the games that actually bother using them, and it has the best d-pad I have ever fucking used.
Nothing to blame here but Sony.[/QUOTE]
make sure you get ffX is you haven't played it yet played it on PS3 it was great,.
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