By Furious Francis, editor in chief
The PS Vita is a fantastic device. A perfect OLED screen, multi-touch, and back touch pad, 3G, trophies, and more. However, Sony is not doing themselves any favors with their current marketing of the PS Vita as a portable console. Sony should really drop this type of marketing because it directly competes with their actual home console, the PS3. While some consumers will love to buy PlayStation All Stars on the PS3 and get a free Vita copy, most gamers want unique PS Vita experiences they can’t get anywhere else. Sony needs to stop marketing it against the Wii U, highlight the ‘unique’ PS Vita software, and figure out a way to get PSP owners their games for reduced price or free. I already know the PS Vita can thrive on its own. It’s time Sony starts marketing it that way.
If you were a 90s kid excited about Nintendo’s upcoming N64 console, you likely read something somewhere about the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive, also known as the 64DD or DD64.
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.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
"Sony is not doing themselves any favors with their current marketing of the PS Vita as a portable console. Sony should really drop this type of marketing because it directly competes with their actual home console, the PS3."
uh, what about....NO!
i want handheld, its that simple, i also want a ps3, so i have them both.
Its THAT simple.
oh and btw, we can be pretty sure that the top accessory port on the ps vita will used with the ps4/orbis or some kind of bluetooth connectivity between both consoles, its obviously obvious.
I thought the person who posted this story to N4G got it wrong, but no, the actual site got a spelling mistake in their own editorial title...
I've argued something akin to this. If people didn't want to buy a 3DS for Street Fighter and two awesome N64 remakes, no self-respecting Sony fan is going to buy a portable platform that plays games their PS3 already plays.
I think the Vita is a great platform, but all of the games on that I actually want to play are already on the PS3. Tearaway is an exception but I will never buy a platform for just one game.
"Thier"? And this is coming from the "Editor in Chief", smh....
I love my vita. But the reason it's not doing well. Because it has next to 0 big sellers. Monster Hunter Has been stripped away. Kingdom hearts and Resi are also on 3ds. So are all Nintendo's big hitters.
I love the vita , but Sony don't really know what they're doing in the handheld gaming market. Nintendo has decades of experience and consistency .......