That’s all there is folks. The Vita is no more. After not even a year on the market, the plug has been pulled on Sony’s fledgling handheld… NOT!
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Great article, I agree completely. Tired of hearing all these complaints by people who probably have never even used one for more than a few minutes. It's a terrific handheld, the best I've ever owned and I've been through them since the original Gameboy. Just give the dang thing some time to grow and really show off what it can do with games, features, apps, etc.
Armchair analysts or not the facts remain:
-SONY themselves have decreased VITA and PSP projected sales by 6 million since May, slashing estimates twice now
-Vita has lost some 3rd support or at least hasn't gained any
-the PSP is outselling the VITA 2:1 on worldwide sales,
-VITA was at last count selling 400k units per quarter
-VITA's software sales barely crack any top 20 sales chart, heck even a VITA only top 10 sales chart it's hard to find a VITA title(that part was a joke)
-$250 IS indeed too expensive regardless of the PSP and 3DS launch prices because VITA has crazy expensive memory cards. If it isn't the price then what's the alternative you'll be pleased with? That it isn't selling because people just don't want it? Would it please you if people started saying that instead?
I'm sure many of us remember the ps3 during first two years of release..."Worst PlayStation in history", "Blu-Ray is just another gimmick", "the ps3 looks like a fridge". Look at the ps3 now. One of the best selling product Sony has to offer. Give the vita some time, it's only been 8 mounths
Don't get me wrong, I love the Vita, but the amount of soft to be released after the holidays and on is worrying me. I liked the streak we had September-October of 2-3 games a week, but I doubt Sony will be able to keep this going, and we'll drop back to 1 game or less a week.