Vita Fans Not Thrilled After GamesCom Conference

Cinelinx - " There were a lot of indie titles shown off, but you could count the amount of times Vita was mentioned. Want a Hint? It only takes one finger. "

[Emanno]

Why was Sony's gamescom all about PS4 ? I don't know why.

[iamnsuperman]

Because it is year one of the PS4. It is like when the Vita launched a lot of the focus of these conferences went to the Vita. Also the Vita isn't a popular device and Sony knows this. We could expect Sony to pump lots of money into the Vita but the problem is people are not buying the games. Tearaway is one of the Vita's most innovative and interesting titles and it sold a tiny amount. There are games coming for it but Sony's main focus is the PS4 and quite rightly so. It is selling at a phenomenal rate and could put Sony in a position to have a huge market share

[Pillsbury1]

Agreed they are focusing on the moneymaker. Although I love my vita and all the free ps plus games I get, I understand that it's not selling as well as Sony would like and they want to focus on what has the most momentum.

[ONESHOTV2]

lol look at the die hard fan defend Sony.. sir it looks like you don't own a vita so what ever you are saying is all sh-t. man Sony gets me so f-ing mad how can you leave out the vita at E3 and games com.yes {imsuperman} Sony f up on this one really bad so stop being young and stupid why defend Sony when you can clearly see what they are doing. you talk about sales of the vita whose fault is that that is Sony problem if they made games that people demanded and advertise it there would be no problem. be smart don't follow the crowd

[Soldierone]

(Not bashing your opinion, just carrying the discussion)

Actually it didn't. Vita was announced shortly before E3 and it was hardly mentioned at E3 that year. It was only the focus of their events ONE time during that same years GamesCom, after that Vita was put on the back burner.

The only other time Vita had a focus was during a pre-taped Japan event. And almost none of the games announced during that ever released outside of Japan. Same thing normally happens with TGS.

And based on the logic of "it's simply not popular so they can ignore it" doesn't work well with me as a consumer either. So basically, anytime Sony releases something I should sit back and hope it takes off on it's own? Otherwise don't bother? Imagine if Apple did that with iPods, it'd be in the same boat as Sony MP3 players right now, pretty dead. Heck PlayStation itself took off thanks to marketing. When's the last time you saw a Vita commercial/Ad?

[iamnsuperman]

I am just going to ignore ONESHOTV2. Look at what soldierone did and then look at your comment. Big difference in the levels of respect (even though we disagree)

@ Soldierone
I remembered it differently. Maybe miss remembering. If the ipod was in the same position as the Vita apple would have abandoned it and tried something new. The PS4 is extremely popular and Sony feels it is a way in for the Vita. Ignoring that popularity could be quite damaging for the PS4 place in the market. Sony has an incredible share at the moment (almost 45-50%) That is something to capitalize on. Not ignore and try and help a struggling platform. That is the key thing

[Th4Freak]

If the PSV isn't popular you make it popular and if it's games aren't selling you make people want to buy them (hype).

Dude we're not talking here about sending the man to Mars, its just simple marketing that Sony isn't applying to the PSV.

Last PSV tv ad in US was in november 2012, no wonder why most people doesn't know what a PSV is, same goes for its games, no marketing at all, how do you want people to know about those games if you don't push them into mainstream media? Not to count that a big part of selling video games is to build hype.

I'm sorry dude but no, Sony has done the shittiest job ever supporting a platform. Thank god for Japanese studios or the PSV would be actually dead.

[ONESHOTV2]

sir i was not trying to be rude to you but the way you are defending Sony is getting to me.. what i'm saying is that just because the ps4 is selling it doesn't mean that Sony should abandon the vita. as i said before if Sony had listen to there customer there would be no problem of sales. i don't think you get how much money i have spent on the vita since launch let me tell you around 6 to 7 hundred dollars that 2 vita 100 memory stick and 25 games plus case add them up that around 700 dollars so don't give me crap about Sony and the vita plz.

[iamnsuperman]

@ONESHITV2
Better. Look the PS Vita is still getting a stupid number of titles this year and next (they are all there on Wikipedia if you want to look). So should it concern you that Sony doesn't publicise it. They are still there for you. Sony is publicising what is making them the most hype and the most business. This isn't blind loyalty but looking at these things logically. I would argue you're defending the Vita too much

[BattleAxe]

@ ONESHOTV2

I agree with what you're saying 100%. I was waiting for the Vita to be supported with games that I want to play, and only two games ever materialized, Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Killzone: Mercenary.

I keep reading comments about how the Vita has tons of games, but they're mainly indie games that don't interest me. My idea of having a high powered handheld gaming console with dual analogue sticks, was to be able to experience AAA console type games like Uncharted, Killzone, Battlefield, Call of Duty, Tomb Raider ect...ect... not twin stick indie shooters.

Sony completely missed the boat with the Vita. They brought us an awesome piece of hardware, and then dropped support for AAA after KZ: Mercenary. They just did pretty much the same thing with Playstation Mobile, only in this case they didn't support it at all. I had it on my Xperia Z, and the selection of games was downright terrible. Again, Sony comes out with something awesome only to let it rot, and then they walk away from it.

[inf3cted1]

So youre telling me Sony doesnt care about the gamer, they only care about the money

[ThatOneGuyThere]

apparently i was the only one paying attention to the platforms for the trailers. a lot of the really cool indie games were for vita. i was actually thinking the whole time "cant wait to play that on vita!". Also, remote play. ever game is a vita game.

[3-4-5]

Just bought Disgaea 4 for Vita today. Tons of content and replay value in that game.

Other than that and Tales of hearts, there isn't much that I want for the Vita...maybe minecraft.

[Viper7]

The reason is actually really simple, handheld game consoles aren't that big of a deal in the west compared to next generation consoles.

If you look at the most sold 3DS games you can see that most if not all of them are from Japan. This alone tells us how important market Japan is for handheld consoles when it comes to bigger games.

Vita is actually exceptional with so many of it's top titles coming from west, and even more with all the indie titles. But they still need to be at least fairly successful in Japan for the device to really take off.

They'll likely show more Vita related stuff in Tokyo Game show.

[mania568]

they got a 1 hour show and as far as i know they were entitled to 1 and a half hour, why not show some vita support, after all the buzz about e3 no vita and people saying they abandoned it you would think they would fix that, people go to see this events with a thought in mind and that is give me a reason to buy one ps vita, not showing anything for it makes it sell way less.

Vita has a ton of games comming out, more than 100 games on the making but why doesnt sony show mre support for it, ps vita has bad rep that is already dead and it isnt, sony its your job to show them they are wrong, maybe next time...maybe...

Love my vita and play it every single day but give people a reason to buy or continue to support this amazing handheld.

[Th3o]

I have faith:) I play my vita almost everyday...and with such a small library I still have a bunch of games backlogged!

[imXify]

At least at Tokyo Game Show it will be the complete opposite. Hopefully.

[Whxian]

whats the point though, we have to fight for every game to get over and we dont always end up getting them even after that .

for people who understand japanese/import games, that's not a problem, but it isnt going to help vita in the west

[VforVideogames]

Well Microsoft won E3 , Microsoft won Gamescom , I think Microsoft its going for the kill in Sony's territory Tokyo Game Show, likes means they're going to win TGS, and disagrees means they will lose TGS.

[Th4Freak]

I doubt it, considering that the PS4 is dry in Japan and its been selling below 8k per week i'd say that its going to be a 100% PS4 show. Hopefully i'm wrong.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

below 6k actually

[Duke19]

Haven't touched my Vita in months. Waiting for Sony to give me a reason to pick it up again but so far no luck

[Pillsbury1]

Thanks to ps plus I have so many games to catch up on: fez I haven't played and I want to start metrico.

[Duke19]

Fair enough, havent really looked at the PS Store on Vita. PS+ has been keeping me mostly busy on PS3, PS4 is getting there

[Tzuno]

vita is set to be doomed.

[Christopher]

6 new games out this week alone. Definitely a doomed device :P

[crusf]

That's great but are any games that will attract the curious consumer. Any games that will cause them to buy the system. I'm talking about big name games that people will say "Hey I played that alot and theres a new one only on Vita awesome I gotta buy one." How about a GTA,Kingdom hearts,or God of War? Nope. It has great games no one will ever hear about because people are afraid to try new things unless they buy the console first thanks to games like that.

[Christopher]

@crusf: Just keep moving that goal post.

I'm not saying the Vita is the best device out there, but to say it's doomed because there wasn't a game shown on the conference stage during a week when it releases 6 new games? That's just silly.

I'm not sure how well the Vita will do in the long run, but if the PS TV takes off, I'd think you will see an increase in Vita sales since the same games can be played on both. Perhaps.

To be honest, the age of portable gaming is very limited. Phones and tablets take up that market primarily. Sony is best to stick to their current biggest money maker, the PS4, when trying to encourage new customers and the like.

[gangsta_red]

6 new games that aren't appealing and has no weight can definitely still mean a doomed device.

Especially when no one even knows what those 6 games are.

Sony should just market the cross platform play for the Vita as it's biggest strength. Also I think Sony should make it a companion device to the PS4 like the gamepad for the WiiU. At least this would give a lot of Vita owners reason to use the device.

[Christopher]

***Especially when no one even knows what those 6 games are. ***

I know more about those games than I do about any games coming out for any other handheld at the moment.

I think 'no one' is a bit of an overstep on that statement of yours.

I get it, you don't know it and it's not talked about a lot by other people. But what handheld games are talked about in that manner? It's rare that any game other than a console/pc release isn't discussed on N4G or any other site, so it's kinda the norm. But, that also doesn't mean that the people who have and like those devices don't know about those games.

P.S. Sony blog published this week's releases yesterday. It lists all the games. That's why I know there are six of them.

[donwel]

6? Please don't say that, I've already got a load of games I need to finish on it, I don't need to add more to my backlog just yet.

[CaptainPunch]

Even so, these games don't sell. I want the Vita to do well, but don't kid yourself. The sales have been dismal and I see no reason as to why people would suddenly be buying Vita's unless Sony focuses on bringing more quality games over to the system.

[MasterofMagnetism]

Not a single damn thing announced for the Vita. Such a shame.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

After E3 I decided Gamescom was the last chance Sony had to sell me a Vita, they failed.
I don't like the way theyve almost abandoned the Vita, but gaming is a business and they are solely in it for profit.

[Lou Ferrigno]

i'm so close to buying a VITA but if they start backing off of it , will there be a reason?.. i may have to reconsider..was about to go buy one this week..
How are the RPG's for it for anyone that has it?

[rextraordinaire]

Awesome for RPGs actually.

Persona 4
Sword Art Online
Dragon's Crown (Which is now cross play with ps3)
Muramasa
Soul Sacrifice (+ Delta)
Ys
Disgaea
Remasters of the Atelier series
Class of Heroes and plenty other dungeon crawlers
Valhala Knights
Monster Hunter
Gods Eater

+
The complete PSP RPGs library

[contradictory]

there's Persona 4 Golden which is the best handheld RPG i've ever played to this day..
seriously, look past the cutesy animu style because that game is seriously amazing

there's also Disgaea 3 which you can get on PS3 too
so it might not be worth it if you own it already

Dragon's Crown is half brawler, half RPG....
i found it really good, but again. it's on PS3 too

Muramasa Rebirth is an Action RPG game
which is pretty great, but balance on the action again

Final Fantasy X (HD) is shockingly FF X HD version
which AGAIN is also on PS3, can you see the pattern with some of the vita games?

Ragnarok Odyssey Ace which is an action RPG
and is, you guessed it. on the PS3 too

there's the Atelier series
on PS3 too if i remember correctly..

oh, it's alright there's Mind Zero which is a really unrefined and generally very meh JRPG...
i wouldn't recommend buying it...

[rasecmask]

I keep trying to sell my vita for months now, it's unbelievable, no one has interest in it. ( Well, not in Brazil at least)
:/

[Pillsbury1]

Although it looks like Sony has given up on the vita, this is a long term device with an extended life cycle and there will be more steady stream of games coming out.

[Artista]

I held onto to my Vita with hope that Gamescom would give me a reason to hold onto it. . *Sigh*

[TheBrit]

Were they thrilled BEFORE Gamescon???!!!!

[dark-kyon]

uff what calamity,no more watered down first party ports and generic westerns third party games in my awesome handheld,well i keep giving my money to banco,xseed,aksys,nisa,tecmo koei and indies guys.

[kewlkat007]

People complain too much..

[GreenRanger]

*Vita games getting ported to consoles.

*Sony releasing a device that plays Vita games.

Keep up that Vita support, Sony. /s

[RosweeSon]

Did they put some shit in the innards of my vita as it's getting dropped like a sack of it have over my vita for around a year now, last October time, ps+ alongside about 5-6 physical game purchases (metal gear, killzone, assassins, need for speed virtua tennis and tearaway) all great games but where are the follow ups or just games of similar ilk, big top notch games, no GTA no god of war and no gran turismo for vita? Pffft! And now one of it's best games tearaway is jumping ship, love my vita and I know it had a rough start but considering sony supported psp until about a month ago where's the love with Vita!? Indie all the way for me at the moment, no major bad thing but the vita is a beast and all it's gets used for to push it is the remote play, no AAA games that really push the vita apart from uncharted which was day one I believe? Hmm?

[Ryuk_2007]

The Vita is on life support.

[ritsuka666]

It's dead jim.

[RosweeSon]

We lost it's pulse!

[EverydayGuy]

I think the Vita is just there to play your PS4 games on the go. Like using remote play when you are 1000 miles away.

[iceman600]

vita is dead chalk up another kill for nintendo :)

[Protagonist]

Freak off! with that shitty nintendo comments...

[Protagonist]

Them Sony *Playstation executives and their poor decisions concidering the PS Vita, is beyond stupid.

[paulogy]

Hopefully they've learned their lesson that they should at least post an image of all the games coming to Vita. Shahid Kamal Ahmad did his best on twitter to remind people of what's coming in an epic "flash flood" of Vita tweets (I summarized it here: https://twitter.com/paulogy... )

[izumo_lee]

If people cared at the beginning when the Vita was released than maybe Sony would have given the system even more exposure. However in the west people simply do not care for the system which is really unfortunate cause they are missing some awesome games Indie or otherwise.

TGS will be where the Vita will shine cause at least in Japan people actually care for the system.

[joeorc]

omfg..we get it Sony is ignoring the playstation Vita in the "west" thats the freaking key, and west centric consumer's have no one to blame but themselves!

recently china joy 2014 game convention over 700,000+ people show up to that convention

http://www.e4game.com/html/...

does that look like Sony is ignoring the freaking PSVita to you?

thats the d@mn same complaint oh Sony is ignoring the PSVita, OR SONY DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE PLAYSTATION VITA, NO ITS ABOUT PUTTING MORE RESOURCES AND INVESTMENT THAT RIGHT NOW CONSUMERS THAT ARE IN THOSE REGIONS ARE BUYING PLAYSTATION VITA'S..JUST LIKE THE WEST ARE BUYING PS4'S

sONY IS CONCENTRATING ON RELEASING THE PLAYSTATION tv, IF MORE CONSUMER'S IE: people buy the playstation TV MAYBE , JUST Maybe THE WEST WILL GET MORE GAME'S FOR THE PLAYSTATION vITA AT LEAST IN ASIAN COUNTRIES THEY ARE SUPPORTING THE D@MN HANDHELD. WHICH IS MORE THAN I CAN SAY FOR THE GAMER'S IN THE WEST! AND IM FROM THE WEST!

At least the one freaking complaint about well if im just getting watered down ps3 ports i just would rather play them on the PS3..WELL SONY HEARD YOU FREAKING LOUD AND CLEAR, THAT IS WHY SONY IS RELEASING THE PLAYSTATION tv.

Sony is agaiun re leasing yet another playstation Vita platform, is if Sony did not care about the d@mn platform why release yet another ver. that no one cares about?

@izumo_lee

100% for the d@mn truth, bubble up+

[Nail13]

PS4 requires PS+. PS+ gives Vita games.
Vita has trophy support. Personal that's enough for me.

Also its Vita TV to me, not Playstation TV. So I think Vita going to sell.

[iceman600]

"Freak off! with that shitty nintendo comments... "

it's true too bad you wasted your money on trash.

"However in the west people simply do not care for the system which is really unfortunate cause they are missing some awesome games"

awesome games??? lol there are no games that's why nobody cares about it.

[TongkatAli]

Rofl! I have both Vita and 3DS. Both are good devices. You don't own one so you have no idea what you're talking, go back to playing games that the Vita can run with its pinky and don't forget that circle pad pro brahh : )

You need sales data and numbers. The Vita just existing owns the 3DS, no work required.

[iceman600]

kiss my ass troll. you wasted your money on junk, and sony is laughing all the way to the bank, and im just laughing at u dumb losers.

[TheLastGuardian]

I thought Gamescom would be good for the Vita because it usually is. Not only were there no big games announced, but we lost one of our best exclusives to the PS4. It's a damn shame that Sony wants all of thier studios making PS4 titles so we have no first party games to look forward to on the Vita. Sure, there's still tons of awesome games coming to the Vita, but is it too much to ask for some Sony games on my Sony system?

[inf3cted1]

So a port, a port, a port, another port. Some more ports, and indie games.

Yup, totally worth it.

[megamanX2]

"You need sales data and numbers. The Vita just existing owns the 3DS, no work required."

Wow i though youtube has all the degenerates lol, and the point that alot of people are trying to make about the vita is that it was trying to hard to be a console instead of a handheld. Its not a difficult thing to understand, and it sound like YOUR buthurt because YOU paid for a paper weight.

"So a port, a port, a port, another port. Some more ports, and indie games."

lol very true dude :) its nice to see someone in here that has a brain, and the truth is that phone have just about takes over the handled space.....it's only a matter of time.