PS Vita Needs AAA's, Not Indies

The PS Vita hasn't had the best start in life, but it's getting there. Sort of.

In recent months the powerful handheld has become a haven for smaller developers and independent game makers looking to get their games out on the best possible device for a reasonable price; hence the influx of indie games.

[sinncross]

I don`t think anyone will deny this claim but truthfully, getting the indie scene onto the PSV is better than doing nothing at all.

[miyamoto]

Getting AAA,AA, A, B,or Indies and everything in between will always be good for the PS Vita as long as they are fun to play games and make Vita a well rounded and balanced platform.

[Ult iMate]

That's right. Vita gets both A+ and indie titles.

[dedicatedtogamers]

I disagree. The AAA titles are coming. However, everyone is trying to be fiscally responsible. The age of ten AAA titles a year is over and it isn't coming back. Indie games do a great job of bridging the gap between $1 smartphone puzzle games and full-blown retail releases.

[BullyMangler]

most importantly, the Vita needs comfort, more so than those comfort grips they built for it. .its the wrongly placed joysticks man, the joysticks . .

[Kingthrash360]

ill take indies and AAA games....and ita not like they aren't coming....I mean KZ tearaway SS...are out this year FFX should ve considered a AAA game though its a remake. one point id like to point out is sites like IGN would downplay the Vita's AAA games anyway. they did it with gravity rush, SS, NFS, SFxT, MVC3, Uncharted ect.

[Xaphy]

FFX isnt a remake, its the same game with upgraded graphics in HD and gameplay mechanics

[Minato-Namikaze]

Its a remaster, it irks me when people, especially so called gaming journalists call them remakes.

[TongkatAli]

Vita needs less stalkers that are cynical non owners, truth.

[chrish1990]

I own a Vita, and I'm happy as can be with it. Want a picture?

[TongkatAli]

No

[izumo_lee]

AAA games as we can see can take a lot of time & finances to make really excellent games. The Vita's game development is being treated like 'consoles' more so than they are handhelds which explains the longer dev time on games. This isn't the 3DS where it is easy to churn out games more often.

To fill the gaps until AAA games comes along we have the Indie crowd. Which we all know by now can really be advantages for your system. Indie games can be cheap to create but may end up being more profitable than AAA games themselves if you can find that 'special' game.

People complained that the Vita weren't getting any games. Now it is & we are complaining that there are too many Indie games? Seriously?!

[joeorc]

"AAA games as we can see can take a lot of time & finances to make really excellent games. The Vita's game development is being treated like 'consoles' more so than they are handhelds which explains the longer dev time on games. This isn't the 3DS where it is easy to churn out games more often."

100% correct, the development cycle for AAA budget games for the PSVita can take 18 months to do.

It seems to be one of the thing's many of these same journalists fail to bring up in their piece. you cannot make a AAA game quick like many seem to think you can, just because the PSVita is a handheld does not mean the development can go any quicker than a PS3 game since the PSVita's hardware is robust enough to handle PS3 in game asset's!

[Shacojin]

F*CK YES!! Give the people AAA exclusives from the big brother PlayStation platform that people recognize, make it unique to VITA and people will start to follow.. A REALLY GOOD Call of Duty would be a great place to start... then add games like Grand Theft Auto and Gran Turismo.. and watch the VITA come back to the land of the living and gaming

[cmpunk53]

AAA + indie = win

I just hope they can get Glugames and Madfinger to port their games to PS Vita. It's really hard to buy games on the app/playstore since I don't own a creditcard and buying PSN cards is my only way to buy games/in-apps/add-ons.

[Hicken]

Where's this perception that these games don't exist? LBPVita, Gravity Rush, Soul Sacrifice, Assassin's Creed, P4G, Need for Speed and plenty of others are already out, and there's Killzone, Tearaway, FFX and more are on the way.

Do people treat other consoles like this? If so, I don's see it.

[wtfbbq8]

Playing indie games are like going backward.

[pizzafan]

Sick of these youngsters writing on shit they're new at. There are over a dozen vita games on cart that any vita owner should have in their collection. There are also over a dozen digital titles that should be downloaded.

The vita has many, many games to offer and countless hours of gameplay for consumers to enjoy. Persona, uncharted, monkey ball, virtua tennis, need for speed, soul sacrifice, gravity rush, sly cooper, doa5+, touch my katamari, lbp, hot shots golf, sonic transformed, playsation all stars, when vikings attack, mutant blobs, guacamelee, jet set radio, knytt--the list goes on and on.

[chrish1990]

Bother to read the article? Nope.

Not once is it mentioned that there's no games for the Vita.

[sherimae2413]

hello there friend! ^_^

i know how you feel about the vita right now...
just like izumo says game development for vita specially when it comes to AAA are quite long.....
i know, i know sony is not announcing a lot of new games for the vita specially the AAA ones right, and you feel troubled?
same goes for the 3rd parties right?

well e3 is almost a few weeks away and we know within this month sony might surprise us, when it comes to vita
just be positive ok ^_^

remember the 1st god of war for the psp? it came out on 2008 almost two years after the psp has been released in 2006
same goes for crisis core and birth by sleep and the 3rd birthday they came out in 2010-2011 almost 5 years in psp lifespan
and no one can say the psp has no games

the vita is just only in its early years, those AAA games will definitely come ^_^
btw good morning

[ReubenPatrick]

Duh... we're gonna get some AAA games. We just have to wait. Indie games would just be a very pleasant distraction, something that would give a bit more variety from the normal offerings of big budget AAA games.

[NumOnePS3FanBoy]

The way that I see it is that these indie devs will shine and grow like devs like That Game Company and others.