Push Square: "The first console launch I ever covered for Push Square was the PlayStation Vita, so I remember those heady February winter days well. It was 2012 and message boards were aflame with complaints about the infamous Online Pass (remember that?), while the PlayStation 3 was struggling to step outside of the Xbox 360’s considerable shadow in English-speaking territories. Elsewhere, smartphone apps were in vogue, and the media was telling us how they’d eventually crush console games for good."
Epic Games is working on another game-changing Fortnite mode, and according to a leaker, it will come out within two weeks.
Fortnite servers will have more problems than usual over the following month, and Epic Games revealed why.
They’re taking them all offline and replacing them with UT99 servers for the foreseeable future.
Can Daniel-san still sweep the leg in gaming? He sure can.
But Daniel-san doesn’t sweep the leg? He has honor! Jonny sweeps the leg. Those filthy dirty Cobra Kai!
Having console games on the go wasn't a problem. 3DS had that, and a huge abundance of high quality games, also had great marketing. PSVita with how sony handled everything never had a chance.
The Vita wasn't a failure I owned it and thought the system was fantastic. The reason I got rid of it was due to the support the system got after a year and a half. If Sony would have invested the same effort it did into PS4 launch into PS Vita launch and Post launch. I would have kept it. Notable great games Uncharted, Resistance and Killzone.
Time will tell, but I think after the novelty wears off, Switch will have a problem with AAA 3rd party like Vita did. But the big difference is that Nintendo has a huge following of people that will buy whatever to play their great 1st party games.
Because PSP successfully proved the concept could work