There's a theory about Football Manager Handheld – the latest PSP version of the multimillion selling European stalwart - that says its keenest audience isn't really hardcore fans of the PC version. Instead, it's lapsed players. People who used to be obsessed by FM (or earlier incarnations of Championship Manager), but for whatever reason – jobs, spouses, kids – lost the habit.
For these people, this edition of Football Manager Handheld is manna from Heaven.
EDGE - Revisiting Football Manager has become a little Christmas ritual of mine, one which I look forward to (almost) as much as devouring a turkey luncheon or consuming life-threatening amounts of cheese. It is an indulgence I only allow myself over the festive season because playing Football Manager swallows such enormous swathes of time – time.
According to a forum post by an SI bunny, Sports Interactive has no plans for a PS Vita version of the massive selling Football Manager series. Despite doing great sales on the PSP (and still the current PSP No. 1 in the UK) over the years, the post says:
"Unfortunately there are no plans presently to do a Vita specific version of FMH at present, sorry."
This saddens me.
They made one for PSP, but no plans for the VITA?
Damn. Really like FM :(
The mysterious person quoted was probably me; to put some more detail into things ...
At present there are no plans to do a Vita specific version of Football Manager Handheld at present.
The PSP version will however work fine on Vita.
So saying that there isn't a specific FMH game on vita is a bit like saying we don't do a specific iPhone4s version of FMH, yes its true - but most people are happy enough playing the 'standard' iOS version which works on an iPhone3g.
Hope this helps,
Marc Vaughan - SI Bunny (apparently :D)
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