Forbes:This fall was supposed to be the time for the Playstation Vita to kick it into gear. Sony’s struggling handheld got two major versions of AAA releases recently – first, Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, and second, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. Amongst a few other releases, those games could have been the keystones of a stronger Vita lineup and an answer to the oft-repeated call that there are just no games for the Vita. That hasn’t happened.
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Review scores for the biggest games like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed haven't been promising, hopefully you're into the Japanese market because they seem to support Sony handhelds more than any other country, just like they did giving the PSP life all these years.
COD is 100% poor.
Assassin's Creed Liberation is selling great according to Ubisoft, and they're already talking sequel and as for COD, who cares? The PSP seemed to do ok without a "killer" app. The PS3 makes out alright with a variety of games even when some criticize it for not having huge sellers like Gears or Halo. And what they need for the Vita to catch on is Japan. You really think either of those titles was going to suddenly make it take off? Come on, Forbes. Pull your head out of your ass. It's pretty clear they don't understand a damned thing about the mobile games market.
Sure sales could be better, but Forbes is sounding like a broken record here. The system hasn't even been available for it's first holiday season yet. Sony's not just going to suddenly ditch the thing if they hit March and go "That's it. Only 8 million in the first full fiscal year. Pull the plug."
It really is the PS3/PSP doom all over again with the Vita.
No doom and gloom opinion is gonna stop me or anyone who loves playing games fron having fun.
One thing I appreciate is as long as great exclusive games are published on a console it doesnt matter whether the system sold bazillions or tanked after 2 years.
Sony is no Sega. I am sure PSV will be fine.
What matters is I had the chance to play the great games. Its always better than nothing.
The PS Vita already have a great library of great games like Gravity Rush Ragnarok Odyssey Uncharted GA LBP Vita. That what matters.
Ragnarok - Loving it
AC Liberations - Loving it
Need for Speed - Loving it
Gravity Rush - Loving it
COD Declassified - Loving it
Getting Persona 4 next week and trying to finish Persona 3 PSP on my Vita. I have plenty to play on my Vita and not enough time.
Rough fall for the Vita, I think not.
Just curious to see if peoples buying patterns are any different on the vita.
I for one seem to be tempted to buy things from the PSN store, but the prices seem ridiculously high.
I've noticed a lot of people say they are buying digital on the Vita...probably more than any other system in the past. It's anecdotal of course, but I think the convenience of DD suits a handheld, much like it did for the music industry. I still purchase physical because I'm a collector, but DD I believe will become more accepted in the handheld market before it does in the console market.
Lets stop pretending COD are or were the best games ever. Sure they sell a ton but historically they have never been the best games available, just the most sold.
That being said it isn't half as bad as what the reviews for the game are telling people. Just rent it and try it tou will see its actually quite good.
I think if the game was 40 and 35 downloaded it would have gotten better reviews. A lot of the hate and criticism levied by reviewer imo have to do with The price and activision's reputation for being a greedy company.
Devs need to understand that handheld games with loading times is just terrible.
looking forward to:
Persona 4
Ys Celceta Sea of Trees
Soul Sacrifice
Dragons Crown
PS ALLSTARS
FF X HD
Killzone
Disgaea 4
Tearaway
Masamuse Demon Blade
Gravity Rush 2
Warrior’s Lair
Uncharted 2
Guacameele
Sinemora
EDIT: Btw, I had no idea Disgaea 4 was coming to the Vita. I'll have ta pick that up!
but D3 was a sucess on vita so its only logical for Nippon Ichi to bring D4 with all dlc on vita too.
I hope Disgaea D2 will also be released on Vita
i love playing Disgaea on portables its much more fun than ps3 imo ^^
I think Killzone mercenary's is gonna show that you can make a good fps for the vita when a studio actually has talent like guerrila and cambridge.
Im just glad that nihilistic moves to mobile devices so they can stink up the place there with their shoddy mediocre games.
No one really knows how far Activision was with the development of the game, since clearly it was not their priority and then Sony probably was in a rush to get the game out.
The game clearly needed more development time. To make it a AAA worthy title.
ACIII:L just needs a freaking patch for fix some of the game issues. The funny thing is, its with the gimmick that the game has problems with and not with its standard gameplay.
As for the article, well the Vita needs Japan and it would really help if Sony would stop supporting the PSP, so the 3rd party devs would start moving to the new device and not continue making games for its predecessor.
http://blog.us.playstation....
It doesn't matter if you make awesome games if everyone thinks the system is too expensive.
Hopefully they could time it right before the release of MH4 to entice people to buy a Vita.
There is more to gaming than Call of Duty and Assasin's Creed, and certainly more to the Vita.