Run-down of the Playstation Vita's amazing success story. Parody of Sony apologists.
TSA writes: While the PlayStation 5 has been the runaway winner of the generation, running laps around Xbox for the last few years, it's been a pretty bumpy ride.
I disagree... Sony may make a bad decision now and then, but to say "keep making" implies they are doing it all the time. That is MS who does that. And to be honest, Sony gives every idea a chance, no matter how good or bad the end result turns out. The "bad decisions" are more associated with the teams who come up with them than Sony who just lets them do their thing.
The writer's take on PSVR -- totally true. But it's not just PSVR; for whatever reason all the VR companies just don't invest and support the platform like they should. Even the mighty Oculus Quest 2 + 3 have oddly feeble software support. I see mostly the same games and apps on the store now as I did 3 years ago. PSVR is another one of Sony's "abandonware" examples (along with Vita, PS TV, etc. etc.) that are just head scratchers. Like why even develop and release a piece of hardware if you're not going to support it? I don't know.
But the writer isn't correct about the Portal. That one has been a success I think. It works pretty well, and lots of people love it. Now notably, that one doesn't require much ongoing support from Sony -- it has one purpose and it does it fine enough -- so maybe that has helped.
They've definitely fumbled hard in the live service space (buying Bungie, the utter failure of Concord, spending years on Factions 2 just to cancel it), Even Helldivers 2, which was a hit at launch, has lost most of its user-base due to weak post-launch support.
Other than that though, they've been doing well.
Spoiled and arrogant. PSVR failures should have resulted in a house cleaning. The Discord Sony team should be fire...lots of talent on the market.
Sony CFO says that the company lacks the creation of enough original IPs, but this statement spans more than just Sony's gaming division.
The thing is they do have a lot IP wise but most of them aren't be used
Legend of Dragoon? Syphon Filter? Resistance? Dark Cloud? Ape Escape? Heavenly Sword? The Getaway? LocoRoco?
You have the IPs, you just don't try to use them
How long have we been wanting Bloodborne 2 or even a remaster?
It just still irks me that they have something like Astrobot for YEARS now and they've really done JACK with it. They could have had a Fall Guys game with the Astrobots before Fall Guys were a thing. They have something great and they're just sitting on it like idiots, that is until the recent Astrobot game and even then... they ignored any VR compatibility...like, what are they thinking? Do the people in charge just hate money or something? That must be it if they sat there and thought Concord was going to do gangbusters. Still no Bloodborne 2, not a damn thing from Naughty Dog or Insomniac other than Spider-man. This entire generation has been a bust.
i honestly dont give a fuck about their ips and which they use, just give us more games that aren't 3rd person action games and stop thinking that if you wan't to revive an IP, you need it to be the biggest blockbuster game ever with budgets in the hundreds of millions.
Sony has a blue billion IP's that have been in friggin "cryosleep" for years! I'd rather see them revisit some of those before adding new ones...
Killzone
Resistance
Socom
Syphon Filter
Dark Cloud
Bloodborne
Motorstorm
Mod Nation Racers
Wipeout
Warhawk
Legend of Dragoon
Jack And Daxter
Sly Cooper
Infamous
Twisted Metal
Patapon
Fat Princess
Puppeteer
Jumping Flash
And I'm sure there are more that I'm forgetting!
A new Sony patent wants to bring movable grips to controllers to keep the vibration quality consistent regardless of how you hold them.
"Keep the vibration quality consistent regardless of how you hold it."
I'm on board. 👍😁
I feel the PSV is being treated real bad by 3rd party studios when it comes to support..Yes,i understand 3DS has the market share advantage but that's no reason for studios to just ignore Vita.
How is it being treated real bad by developers? You think Developers are there to enrich our lives? They are making games to make money. And when the install base on the 3DS is 10x what it is on the Vita, where do you think the Developer is going to make more money??
You act all naive thinking that this isn't a business first.
Sony's pathetic marketing is killing vita. Nothing else.
The system is far from dead.
Sure, it wouldn't hurt if Sony bought a little more ad space for the vita.
But if you make a list of all the rumored vita projects and games already in development you'll clearly see the system has a long life ahead of it.
And I'm sure we all remember when people said "the ps3 is dead, the ps3 has no games." We'll 6 years later, 3 hardware revisions, and tons of software later the system is still alive and well.