"With the official confirmation that Sony will be cutting back its first-party support of the PlayStation Vita, owners of the handheld must deal with the realization that they own the PlayStation equivalent of the Wii U’s GamePad, but with the added ability to play indie games and the occasional third-party port on the go. Really, we should have seen this news coming sooner. The Vita never really got a good start out of the gates and, looking back, seemed doomed to fail from its very beginning.
But why? Why did the PlayStation Vita, a portable console that has seen some truly spectacular games, fail? How could a portable gaming system with such power and promise fail to catch on and give Nintendo and the 3DS a little competition?" - Travis Tucker
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
Uncover secrets, defeat challenging bosses, and upgrade your arsenal in these exciting Metroidvania titles on the PlayStation Vita.
"The London-based (the UK) indie games publisher PQube and Tokyo-based (Japan) video games publisher and developer Acquire, today announced with great delight and excitement that "Class of Heroes 1 & 2: Complete Edition", is coming to PC (Steam) and consoles (PS5 and the Nintendo Switch) on April 26th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Eh, the Vita only failed largely for three reasons.
The first was memory card prices. I am willing to bet that the Vita would have sold at $250, if it had simply supported Microsd. This is because the Vita, practically by design, made the 4 GB card worthless, since several games (even F2P titles like Phantasy Star) too large to fit on the card. Let that sink in, at the time you were asked to pay $20 for a card that couldn't even hold every game available on the system. This made the 8 GB card the first "real choice," though many viewed 16 and 32 the only "real choices," especially after plus was implemented.
The next reason was marketing. When push comes to shove, Sony never really marketed the Vita and due to that, many people never bothered with it. This problem was only amplified by what they actually bothered to market. The first commercial I recall was an MLB ad, which really made it out to be more of a remote play device, than a device all its own. The other big one was for Declassified, which is arguably one of the worst titles on the system. Sony really should have pushed Uncharted, Gravity Daze, WipEout, LittleBigPlanet and Soul Sacrifice a lot more than they did, as they might have painted a better picture.
The final reason was Sony's slow reaction times. You figure, it took months for the device to get the power to play PS1 classics and even then it never supported every title (leaving some of the best like Spyro / Crash unavailable). PlayStation Plus took close to a year (going off the Japanese release) to get implemented and was never quite that grand. For instance, Sony really should have swapped out the evergreen titles (Wipe / Gravity / Uncharted stuck around for nearly 2 years and were ultimately never replaced) with something more current and interesting to get new sales and many people were put off by Sony offering PSP titles instead of Vita titles. Even memory cards were poorly implemented going forward, as it took Sony way too long to finally release a 64 gb card.
Overall, if Sony had a clearer plan, cheaper memory cards (or just microsd cards) and actually marketed the thing, it probably would have sold much better.
The Daily Five: Reasons I wont click this article
1. VITA is awesome
2. VITA isn't dead
3. same as 1 and 2
4. same as 1 and 2
5. Click bait title is obviously click bait
It didn't failed.
It's underperforming.
Lol at yet another click bait article. It's true that the guys at Sony are idiots and treat the Vita as a bastard child, but the third party support from Japanese devs has been great.
I'll have fun with my Danganronpa 2, Project Diva 2, Senran kagura, SAO, Tales of hearts R, Disgea 4, Neptunia and more.
Vita is dead to those who don't own one.
Flamebaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aait.