Just what is Sony doing with Vita? If they've given-up, they should just kill it.
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Fixed.
Playstation All Stars
Sonic Racing
Persona 4
Zero Escape: VLR
Need for Speed
Ragnarok
About a dozen PS1 games
I still need to play all of those - which is more games than I am interested in playing on my PS3 through the end of the year. I should be good until the next round of releases.
Also, I love my Vita.
Sonic Racing
Persona 4
Zero Escape: VLR
Need for Speed
Ragnarok
About a dozen PS1 games
I still need to play all of those - which is more games than I am interested in playing on my PS3 through the end of the year. I should be good until the next round of releases.
Also, I love my Vita.
Um, that's about Vita threads in general, not the Vita OT. Nobody's begrudging your enjoyment; just stop disingenuously confusing legitimate discussion of Vita's objectively poor sales with an attack on your subjective opinion of the hardware and its lineup.
You may have known of Iwata's apology due to the fact that Nintendo follows that up with a course of action. They did the $80 price cut, the ambassador program, and a few weeks later announced that the largest Japanese third party franchise would be coming to 3DS. As I said, Sony's probably not in a position to do the $80 price cut with Vita, and even if they were the software that sells hardware just isn't there. There were Assassin's Creed, and Call of Duty games on PSP, they didn't light the world on fire. PSP's best sellers were from Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Monster Hunter, and God of War. Of that five, only a single one of them has an entry announced for Vita thus far. That single entry, unfortunately for Vita, is an HD port that'll be shared with PS3, and unfortunately for Sony they only own 2 of that 5.
if Mass Effect 2 ever taught me anything, there's no 'r' after the 'b'.
Flame Lord
Member
I've been seeing commercials for the new AC game for it. That's better then the nothing I've been seeing since the month it came out.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I can't say I've noticed them.
AndyMoogle
Member
You're missing the best one: Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable.
I've seen a few in the U.K. In fact, there's been a lot of Vita ads lately (Fifa, LBP, CoD and AC:L).
The Vita is a really nice handheld but in its current state - be that price, software, whatever - consumers aren't responding to it. Im really glad Vita owners are enjoying what they have for the system, but the simple fact of the matter is that sales data shows the market isn't responding to it on any sort of mass scale.
Its a shame. I bought and sold a launch Vita, but id buy one again once the price drops low enough. But I don't think the system will ever be mass market to any degree. I think 10 million life to date is an ambitious ceiling for the product.
Its a shame. I bought and sold a launch Vita, but id buy one again once the price drops low enough. But I don't think the system will ever be mass market to any degree. I think 10 million life to date is an ambitious ceiling for the product.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
GAF was due for its monthly Vita doom thread since its now November.
Funny thing is I read the title and somehow pictured ReggieFeel saying it, then low and behold OP had a Reggie avatar. lol
semiconscious
Member
fuggedaboutit. because whatever sony does vita-wise will never, for some (including the op, obviously), be enough
...vita catch-22: it won't 'succeed' if people don't buy it. & they won't buy it until it 'succeeds'...
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Personally, I've got more games on my Vita than I know what to do with. But to each their own.
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
RoninChaos
Member
Well, that about covers it.
Don't know why I'm bothering, but I'll bite.
The vita is a great bit of hardware. It's also had more good games in a short space of time since launch than most other platforms I can remember.
3DS had a couple of big Nintendo titles - another mario kart game and another NSMB game - but nothing for ages since then.
At this point in time I'm convinced vita doomed threads are just trolling because you can't objectively say it doesn't have a range of good games that would be attractive to a range of people.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Tough love.
Actually I'm hoping this post is trolling. Vita isn't doomed because it has good games! Not only that, but it's objectively a good lineup!
Somebody needs to put together a bingo card at this point.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
This is
NeoGAF
Gouty
Bloodborne is shit
If we get a God of War I'll be satisfied with the Vita. Everything after that would just be gravy.
If part of that gravy consisted of a new 2D Metroidvania I would schedule a vacation to visit Konami's headquarters. I'd stand across the street with my arms out stretched, eyes closed and make odd moaning sounds in an attempt to project my love.
If part of that gravy consisted of a new 2D Metroidvania I would schedule a vacation to visit Konami's headquarters. I'd stand across the street with my arms out stretched, eyes closed and make odd moaning sounds in an attempt to project my love.
The only true objectivity is sales.
And by that metric, the Vita is unquestionably failing.
SkylineRKR
Member
Assuming handheld control.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
PopcornMegaphone
Banned
I actually laughed out loud after reading that sentence.
CambriaRising
Member
JordanLMiller
Member
I wish they would kill it just so I wouldn't have to read "I love my Vita!" ever again.
"Shame" it isn't conclusive or many people would have been able to call it a day.
Hey, I tried. I know I'm missing a good bit. We need one list of 2013 releases to rule them all.
I don't know what you are talking about.
RoninChaos
Member
fuggedaboutit. because whatever sony does vita-wise will never, for some (including the op, obviously), be enough
vita catch-22: it won't 'succeed' if people don't buy it. & they won't buy it until it 'succeeds'...
I think most people won't buy it until its cheaper. I still think price is the biggest factor.
Ok then, sadly a fair point.
In that case I will continue to subjectively enjoy the games I have available to me.
lol almost missed this. Dayuuuuuum.
Domcorleone
Member
I'm done with mobile gaming for good. I bought a 3ds at launch and played nothing, vita faired better since I played half of golden abyss, played mk, and loved gravity rush. I bought ac: liberation and played it for 20 min. It is then I got frustrated with low res games on the Vita and sub par frame rate, I would keep it if it had apps other than Netflix and the browser was usable, but instead its on eBay as we speak.
Every list of games I've seen in this thread has been made up of games that I can get on another system and get a better experience, or enhanced ports that offer some new features on Vita that are nowhere near enough to get me to buy the system for them.
My tally of games I want on it is up to two:
Gravity Rush
DJMax Technika Tune
Am I really missing anything? I'll play Uncharted just because it's Uncharted but it didn't sound like the greatest game out there.
And I wish Technika was going to iPad/tablets. I'd rather by a tablet to play the game than a Vita with that small screen -.-
I typically laud Sony for strong first party support, but it's not there right now like it is with PS3. Bunch of half-assed games from established franchises and ports. I guess LBP is sounding like it turned out well though.
My tally of games I want on it is up to two:
Gravity Rush
DJMax Technika Tune
Am I really missing anything? I'll play Uncharted just because it's Uncharted but it didn't sound like the greatest game out there.
And I wish Technika was going to iPad/tablets. I'd rather by a tablet to play the game than a Vita with that small screen -.-
I typically laud Sony for strong first party support, but it's not there right now like it is with PS3. Bunch of half-assed games from established franchises and ports. I guess LBP is sounding like it turned out well though.
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
We all agree that it needs more software, even big Vita fans like myself, but the library is decent enough at the minute. There are the smaller, more niche titles like Orgarhythm and Dokuro, the console spin-offs like CoD and Assassin's Creed and the more under the radar games like Wipeout and Gravity Rush. Not forgetting LittleBigPlanet either which, as someone who has played the PS3 and PSP ones, in my eyes is the best entry in the series yet. A great way to show off everything the system can do.
The next Vita Heaven thing really needs to happen soon though.
The next Vita Heaven thing really needs to happen soon though.
RoninChaos
Member
I find this very interesting. Do you have a smart phone or an iPod?
MotionBlue
Member
Now all we need is the weekly rape culture thread.
Vita is doomed.
3DS is doomed.
PS3 is doomed.
WiiU is doomed.
360 is doomed.
PC is doomed.
We need to start having a tracking system for this shit. Handhelds start off slow, it happened to the DS, the PSP, the 3DS, and now the Vita. These threads are pointless fan-boy/girl circlejerks.
Edit:
I work in retail, we've sold more Vita's last month than 3DS's. Yet sold more DSi than both combined.
That is absolutely fine. Nothing posted in Vita sales threads on a videogame forum should have any bearing at all on your enjoyment of the platform.
Time, potential, appeal etc. Things outside of number reports that count when a decent product enters a competitive market. It's hard to see outside the numbers when that's all you want to see though.
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