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Has the Vita been revitalized or doomed?

Last week was an exciting week since there was a leaked kernel exploit that allows the system to play PSP ISO games. Shortly after the leak, a major contributor stepped down for good. However, another known hacker has stepped up and made a public release of the custom emulator/firmware for the Vita.

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NastyLeftHook04213d ago

its funny, everywhere i go out in the real world ( not cyber-space all i hear is fantastic things about the vita up here in n/a. and here on n4g you get the same phrase splattered all over again and again "vita is doomed" wow, what a weird place this is!

MaximusPrime4212d ago

slow news day...

how about excluding negative news and focus on positive?

True what tentonsoftube said, real world out there, many people i come across enjoying psp and psvita. N4G is the place of free speech. most negative news usually comes from bored writers.

BitbyDeath4211d ago

That'd be awesome if N4G provided that as a filter

dedicatedtogamers4212d ago

No console is doomed, for one huge reason: game companies these days cannot AFFORD to let them be doomed. Yes, a console might have a slow start (like the Vita and the 3DS before it). A console might be lagging behind in its game library. Whatever. But this isn't the "good ol days" when SEGA, Nintendo, Sony, SNK, Atari, and Panasonic were ALL trying to push multiple consoles and handhelds. All the players (Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo) are too big to simply drop a platform.

CommonSenseGamer4212d ago

Zune and to a lesser extent the PSP Go.

It comes down to consumers buying into a product and not how much a company pours into it.

Jason_Tanner4211d ago

Wrong. It boils down to a company pouring (investing) time and money into the product to create interesting features that differentiate it from other competitors and creates value (reasons to buy) in the minds of the potential consumer.

EmperorDalek4211d ago

@Jason:
So if company pours lots of money into marketing their product will be a success?!? I'd say it increases their chances but it by no means guarantees it. Maybe before the days of the internet but not now that word of mouth can spread so far and so fast.

Xof4212d ago

I'm really getting tired of people trying, so hard, to find all these reasons for the Vita to fail, but never--never--bothering to bring up the fact that the Vita's biggest problem is Sony's lack of support.

If the Vita fails, it will be because Sony didn't try hard enough. That's it.

CommonSenseGamer4212d ago

Not true. It may simply be that enough consumers don't buy into it as there needs are wider reaching.

At present the Vita does not have mass consumer appeal, nor is it ever likely to.

Anon19744212d ago (Edited 4212d ago )

I'll ask the same question I've asked before when we're talking about the Vita's "doom". What should it be selling in the current market? Based on what we've seen from Nintendo and Sony sales figures, since the Vita launched worldwide at the end of Feb, it moved roughly 2 million units up to the end of Jun. In the same period, the 3ds sold approx 2.5 million. No one is saying 3ds sales are terrible currently, and we can't expect the $250 Vita to sell like the $170 3ds, so what kind of sales during that period should the Vita have sold? Where's the line between "doomed" and "everything's ok"? An extra 100k for those 4 months? 250k?

Don't get me wrong, of course the Vita could be selling better but all these games blogs say the Vita is doomed based on sales, but not one will offer up where sales should be.

And how is this even an article? The entire article could be boiled down to "If people continue to pirate games the system is doomed." That's not an article. That's a tweet.

Rockubot4212d ago

I am going to say doomed. Like Bender from Futurama says doomed.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2618d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905063d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5063d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905063d ago (Edited 5063d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5063d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5063d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5063d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495063d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5063d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5063d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2654d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One