"You may have heard that a few weeks ago, UK-based retailer Zavvi had a small mess up at their warehouse. Instead of delivering customers their Tearaway preorder for £19.99, they instead sent the Tearaway / PS Vita bundle out. That item retails for around £149.99."
Alex Evans Media Molecule co-founder is taking a break from game development. According to the developer, Dreams is in great hands with a mind-blowing future ahead.
Media Molecule are currently among Sony's top developers, even if they aren't taking in top cash. Those who don't own Dreams are really missing out, especially owners of PlayStation VR.
Shameless Plug: Play my VR game in dreams, "We Bowling in VR!" or my other non-VR game, "Missile Commander"!
Why? It took them more then an entire generation just to get one game out.
It took them almost a generation to get the best, most innovative, and most ambitious play/create/share game ever made.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "Thanks to the timing of the Vita’s release and its relative power compared to the home consoles at the time (PS3 & Xbox 360), it saw the benefit of a number of these late ports which have remained the ‘definitive’ versions to this day. It’s these games that I’m aiming to look at in this article – titles that are best on Vita by virtue of extra bells and whistles, tweaked controls, and content, or in some cases just a general feeling that Sony’s portable hardware is the most enjoyable way to play."
With Sony finally putting an end to the PlayStation Vita, we at CGMagazine wanted to look back to see what made the Vita so special, and explore what could have been.
Persona 4 is what made me buy a Vita as I didn't own a PS3 + I've always been big on my handhelds. The game is so fantastic and was worth the Vita purchase by itself imo
This just reminds me I need to purchase a 2nd Vita while they are still under $300. Great system and there are so many great games to play.
It was such a great handheld. As great as the 3DS is, the Vita is greater in my eyes. The hardware is fantastic, and everything about how it functions is miles ahead of my 3DS XL. The 3DS had some good games and certainly had better long term support, no question there, but I wish so very much that the Vita got that instead.
Fingers crossed for Sony to give handhelds one more go...maybe...Hey! I see you starting to structure a reply! Don't rain on my parade man!
I agree the Persona fanbase would not have had the fervent fanbase that is now which is similar to what P3P did with the PSP. I know because I´ve been promoting these two games for almost 10 years now and I´ve seen the fanbase grow which each game getting more attention, once people have been recommended getting the games and having played the games.
My list of games I loved on the vita is probably going to differ greatly to the normal user as most players stuck to the Indies or jrpg but I love big budget titles I absolutely loved playing
Killzone
Borderlands 2
Call of duty black ops declassified (despite being universally dismissed as a bad game)
Ratchet and Clank remasters
Uncharted
God of war remasters
GTA vice /LCS (which also defined the PSP for me)
The walking dead was also fantastic on the vita
The battlefront PSP games were actually so much better with a right analog stick
Assassins Creed
There was probably more I was a huge supporter of the system when I had the opportunity to buy a vita game over the PS3 version I absolutely took that chance I think I was one of the only people I know that still have their vita hanging about and had a 64gb card for it.
It's a shame it never took off full quality console gaming on the go is fantastic I think the switch is proving this I think the vita was just a victim of it's time it was slightly to early to take advantage of better hardware and it was born in the middle of a mobile phone arm race and people thought that mobiles were actually close to surpassing the vita graphically with Devs like EA focusing purely on iOS and Android for mobile games and shifting away from portable titles on the vita.
It's there fault at the end of the day
Damn I wish I got in on this...imagine paying £19.99 for a PSV and a brand new game.
Zavvi are arseholes anyway, especialy in the steelbook bussiness, ever since HMV/Play.com went down and they managed to take over the steelbook market they think they can do whatever they want.
They showed an artwork on their site for example of the Man of Steel Steelbook when I got it I noticed it had "3D" slapped on the front yet the picture didn't show this on their site, I complained and complained and took me over a week and a half before they decided to knock money off my order and even then it was only £5.
I ordered Tearaway from Zavvi and i didn't get no Vita :(
well, im sure this mess up put a smile on peoples faces overseas, kudos to them
Dishonest people will keep their karma. I don't think their lenient conscience is a problem to them, but usually this comes back. Not from some astral scheme, but for their choices and by the people that accept to live near them.
Yet they swear they are honest and 'meh, it's no big deal'.
Any customer that gets this threat has one simple solution. "I never received it." Done. Go to court for all they care, just stick to that. it was delivered with tracking? Hmm someone else must have took it, or you only got the game not the Vita too.
It's their mistake, its up to you to be a good Samaritan about it, but if they turn around and threaten you with a court case then screw being nice about it. Now if they kindly asked about it first, thats a different story.
And honestly anyone that does send it back, you should pull the "let me process this for up to 30 days" thing haha. Imagine turning the tables on them, "I'm sorry about your mistake, we will return the item but it may take me up to 30 days to fulfill your request. Thank you for your patience"