It really did seem like Sony sent Vita to die. Why they spent so much time on Wonderbook I'll never know. They could have at least shown some trailers of recently announced Vita games. A montage. Anything! As an avid Vita owner, I'm disappointed, even a bit mad. If Sony is showing no confidence in their platform, why should we?
Does PS Vita exist / Lack of Vita games at E3
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Baconsammy
Banned
What happened to that really generic sounding game that used to be called Ruin?
Good for you sir, I'm happy for you.
Huw_Dawson
Member
Sell it now, buy it back in a year. It won't go up in price and there are barely any exclusives you absolutely must own a Vita for.
Little Big Planet
Gravity Rush
Soul Sacrifice
Sound Shapes
Assassins' Creed
Call of Duty
All these games interest me on top of the games I already have. I don't know if people are mad that Sony didn't show the games or if they're saying games aren't coming. Because the latter is false.
Gravity Rush
Soul Sacrifice
Sound Shapes
Assassins' Creed
Call of Duty
All these games interest me on top of the games I already have. I don't know if people are mad that Sony didn't show the games or if they're saying games aren't coming. Because the latter is false.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
They showed an AC3 spinoff, mentioned that there would be a COD for Vita (but no videos or pics or anything) and that PS All-Stars would get a Vita port, and that the Vita could be used as a sort of Wii U tablet when playing Little Big Planet: somesubtitleIcan'tremember on PS3. That was basically it for the Vita.
cj_iwakura
Member
Frustrated that they didn't show them.
Heck, people would've enjoyed five minutes of Persona 4 more than 20 of that wonderbook stuff.
Assassin's Creed wasn't an announcement. We've known about that for like a year. This was just the first time showing it.
this shit has to stop at this rate vita will just be have ports of all sony 1st pt games and nothing from anyone else....
Changed developers.
It seems like they're kind of easing off in favor or going forward with PS Mobile. They know it will take a lot of painful, loss inducing moves to force the Vita into popularity. I really hope the thing catches on better.
Either way, the system has sold enough that I'm sure it will get plenty of great niche titles. I have no regrets about buying the thing, it's a nice machine. I am worried about the handheld market and dedicated game machines taking a hit though. It's a shame if it plays out as poorly as I imagine.
Either way, the system has sold enough that I'm sure it will get plenty of great niche titles. I have no regrets about buying the thing, it's a nice machine. I am worried about the handheld market and dedicated game machines taking a hit though. It's a shame if it plays out as poorly as I imagine.
ThatObviousUser
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It'd need a rubberband on par with Mario Kart Wii's AI.
E3 was their chance to form that rubberband. Pay note that the fact the Vita has still not gained momentum and August is the release of New Super Mario Bros 2, a second Mario platformer for the 3DS.
They're done. Unless Japanese companies jump to this in a massive surge ala the PSP (which they aren't), this thing is absolutely done.
DimmuBurgerKing
Member
I think it'll almost certainly, at the very least, attract the same Japanese developers that embraced the PSP. In the meantime, there are plenty of good games available with more on the way.
If they had shown a plan or strategy at their press conference there was a chance but now it seems more remote than ever. The Vita webcast they have planned better be the greatest thing ever because right now it seems like they've given up.
Good question. They did show Twisted Metal 2 on their PSOne Classics compatible list. Maybe they were referring to that and not a new entry of anything.
You mean the same Japanese developers that are now working on the 3DS instead.
Losing Monster Hunter really ended up being a bigger blow than I ever could have anticipated.
brandonh83
Banned
Good question.
I really loved the design of the Vita but I blame myself for getting sucked into the hype and the great GAF impressions. I like the system and I hope that it is strong enough one day for me to consider getting another one, but now's just not the time for me.
Some may see my post as dramatic or something, but it just wasn't doing anything for me software wise.
List time!
To be honest, there are plenty of games coming for it, it's just there is nothing that inspires quality third party support down the road and that's what pisses me off. They would have to be working on games now before nextgen development next year. So far we have:
Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation
Bioshock: Escape from Vaporware
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
DJ Max Technika Tune
Dragon's Crown
Final Fantasy X HD
Gravity Rush
Killzone
LittleBigPlanet Vita
Madden 13
Malicious
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
New Little King's Story
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
Persona 4: The Golden
Phantasy Star Online 2
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Ragnarok Odyssey
Silent Hill: Book Of Memories
Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Soul Sacrifice
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz
Time Travelers
Warrior's Lair
Ys Celceta: Sea of Trees
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Plus PSN + PSP Games like Growlanser, Gungnir, Jet Set Radio, Orc Attack, When Vikings Attack, Dokuro etc.
But which one of these is going to sell the system at Christmas?
To be honest, there are plenty of games coming for it, it's just there is nothing that inspires quality third party support down the road and that's what pisses me off. They would have to be working on games now before nextgen development next year. So far we have:
Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation
Bioshock: Escape from Vaporware
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
DJ Max Technika Tune
Dragon's Crown
Final Fantasy X HD
Gravity Rush
Killzone
LittleBigPlanet Vita
Madden 13
Malicious
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection
New Little King's Story
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
Persona 4: The Golden
Phantasy Star Online 2
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Ragnarok Odyssey
Silent Hill: Book Of Memories
Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Soul Sacrifice
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz
Time Travelers
Warrior's Lair
Ys Celceta: Sea of Trees
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Plus PSN + PSP Games like Growlanser, Gungnir, Jet Set Radio, Orc Attack, When Vikings Attack, Dokuro etc.
But which one of these is going to sell the system at Christmas?
Now that I can agree with. I was puzzled by the lack of games shown from Sony for the Vita. I liked the games that were shown the whole conference, but altogether it just didn't flow that well IMO>
I think losing MH was inevitable once Nintendo released a portable that could run it.
Not unless it's cracked for emulators suddenly.
Gemüsepizza
Member
What kind of logic is this? You are angry about Vita getting more games? If you don't like it, don't buy it. This is not preventing Vita from getting third party games, this is helping Vita to sell more units.
Edit: Price is not bad in Germany. When PS Vita was released, it was 249 Euro, it went down to 199 Euro on Amazon.de and is now at 225 Euro. There will always be new good offers in the future, I expect the price to get down again soon. Just have to wait for the right moment.
There's a Vita webcast?
I expect Sony to treat it like an important platform. Specially when it needs all the help it can get. Instead they spent much more time demoing a Children's book on a conference rated +17.
The are having like 30 live demos this week.
Hispanicguy
Member
That's how I feel.
Retro City Rampage
Sine Mora
MGS HD
P4
DJ Max Technika Tune
Project Diva
Not a HUGE list of games, but, for me, those games are what keeps me from selling mine.
I'm a COD fan and I can only hope for the best when it comes to the Vita version but I won't get my hopes up. Resistance BS showed what's capable so that gives me some faith.
As for PS1 support, glad to see it coming. A few classics I may pick up but I can't see myself having a huge collection of PS1 games.
They should have shown a little more though. Maybe acknowledge the fact that Gravity Rush and MGS comes out next week.
I'll keep my hopes up....
I don't think it was that big. It's only sold like 1.5 mil. Granted this is a lot, but it's no longer lighting up the charts. It's also selling less and at a slower rate than previous Monster Hunters (not everyone made the jump). The 3DS is a huge thing in Japan because there are a lot of popular (anime) games that came out for the system. Also, that's on top of the multi-million selling Nintendo games.
Cheesemeister
Member
Gravity Daze is the only compelling game on the Vita that I've seen thus far, and to see it swept under the rug like this is disheartening.
Father_Brain
Banned
The only Japanese developers that really seem to be enthusiastically embracing Vita are the niche companies that can turn a profit on sales well below 100K (Gust, NIS, Falcom).
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Exactly my point. Sony screwed the pooch with that book thing. They should have announced it and showed a trailer and said they would be revealing more at a later date like they do for everything else. If they then would have used that time to show Soul Sacrifice, Warriors Lair, Sound Shapes, anything vita, people would not be overreacting like they are now.
And yea they could have thrown Gravity rush a bone, geez.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
According to Amazon, Need For Speed: Most Wanted is also coming to Vita with some exclusive features. Did I miss them announcing this or did they not?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050SWR6M/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050SWR6M/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Exactly, at least PSP would get montages, Vita got zip. Sony and fans of the Vita can't afford to continue to stick their heads in the sand and just hope the Vita will sell itself. This is Sony's new system that just released 4 months ago and you give it at most 5-10 minutes at your press conference that is meant to showcase to the public what you have in store for customers? The longer you wait to do something about your sales numbers, the harder it is to recover from mindshare and Sony already has a spotty record with support in the handheld market. They didn't announce the PS4, that is next year and is what next E3 will be all about so this E3 should have been all about Vita.
We may know about some games coming out and be anticipating them but to get it in the news and in the media for the average customer Sony needs to promote it and hype it, not depend on people on message boards.
Whatever the circumstances behind the change is, it ended up having a monumental ripple effect on the type of Japanese support the Vita has and likely will get in the future. Monster Hunter 3G has sold roughly 1.5 million copies in six months on the shelf. Imagine even half of those sales being applied to a brand new at-launch Playstation handheld. Think about the difference between launching your brand new portable in Japan with Monster Hunter as the flagship title instead of an Uncharted spinoff.
It really is like Final Fantasy VII in reverse.
SEGA's thrown plenty of support at it.
RomanticHeroX
Member
The Vita may be beyond hope, but if we're lucky maybe we can get some $5 clearance games out of the deal. It'll be like the Virtual Boy all over again.
Exactly why I will be holding off on Gravity Rush
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Alright, this post made me feel a little better. Even if that list has too many HD versions of old games on it.
Not getting a price point for the bundle is actually kind of a good thing--once they lock in a price for the AC:L bundle, it sets the expectation for their pricing for the Vita/any other bundles up through October.
With a system that needs a drop as badly as the Vita, another 4+ months at the current price-point would be discouraging.
I wish I were optimistic enough to think: Maybe Sony decided to delay their Vita-related stuff until immediately before Nintendo's just-announced 3DS thing, in order to steal some of their thunder. So we got 30 minutes of book idiocy (seriously, up there with Cameron rambling about Avatar a few years back) to fill the gap that should have been the actual Vita section of the conference.
But really? At this point I think they're just cutting their losses.
Go see if you can look up how many games not made by Nintendo over the past decade or so have sold even 1 million copies in Japan.
I'll assure you, the list is very short.
Also Monster Hunter 3G is a port of an already existing game. If you want to see if franchise fatigue is in effect, wait for MH4 to come out.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
People were concerned (but hopeful) before the conference. I think the hopeful part is gone now
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I think the most insulting part is that the Vita does have a decent amount of games on the horizon, I prefer that slate of upcoming games more than the 3DS overall.
Hell you had new Vita game announcements today, like Sine Mora and Need For Speed: Most Wanted coming to the Vita. How hard would it have been to make a montage of whats on the horizon and been announced for the summer and fall?
Even if you didn't have any major new announcements to make at least acknowledge there are still games coming out and give those reasons for consumers to even care about the product instead of wasting 15 minutes on a damn storybook reader whatever that thing was.
Hell you had new Vita game announcements today, like Sine Mora and Need For Speed: Most Wanted coming to the Vita. How hard would it have been to make a montage of whats on the horizon and been announced for the summer and fall?
Even if you didn't have any major new announcements to make at least acknowledge there are still games coming out and give those reasons for consumers to even care about the product instead of wasting 15 minutes on a damn storybook reader whatever that thing was.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
Agreed, I never thought I'd be keeping my 3ds and selling my vita, I honestly expected it to be the other way around.
These types of games are an amazing fit for the Vita, such a shame.
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