As a testament to the power and capability of the Sony Vita, FIFA Soccer is a near-perfect showpiece. Boasting mechanics culled from previous FIFA iterations, EA has managed to shoehorn its soccer simulation into portable form, sacrificing only a handful of elements in the adaptation.
William D'Angelo: ''Welcome to the ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.
Over the first two month of 2013 we will be looking at the 2012 sales by platform. This week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling PlayStation Vita games in 2012. Last week we looked at the top 10 selling Xbox 360 games in 2012 and the week before that the top 10 selling Wii games in 2012.''
In the wake of E3 in June serious questions were being asked about PlayStation Vita.
For all its whizz bang technology, high-end games and control schemes, the portable has yet to find its audience. And not just in the UK, but in Sony’s homeland of Japan, too.
So retailers looked to E3 to discover what Sony would do to transform the platform’s fortunes. Yet outside of a Call of Duty teaser, Vita was sidelined in favour of PS3. The trade wasn’t getting the answers it needed.
Ragnarok Odyssey
NFS MW
AC3L
All-Stars
Retro City Rampage
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Persona 4: The Golden
That's my holiday list for Vita. I hope I'll have enough money for them. Might add Silent Hill, LBP, New Little King's Story or WRC to the list tho.
mine would be Little Big Planet, Ragnarok Odyssey, Ratchet and Clank Full Frontal Assault, Playstation All Stars and probably Assasins Creed Liberation.
For me just AC3L (really looking forward to this one - gameplay at GamesCom was great) and LBP (I'm a little bored with the franchise on PS3 but having it on the go should be great). After that I am really looking forward to Killzone and Warrior's Lair should it ever be released. I was looking forward to CoD but since the Resistance VITA guys do it, I am afraid it won't be that great but I'll be watching the reviews for it anyway.
Why is everybody forgetting about Need For Speed Most Wanted? It's being made by Criterion, and the Vita version is identical to the console version.
No, it can't be saved. The Vita is dead and has been since launch. Haven't you been keeping up with the news on N4G? It's over, finished. It will be discontinued by years end... zzzzzz... Sorry, nodded off. I think I may have eaten too much cheese.
Anyway... I'm really looking forward to playing LBPVita this month. Trust me, this LBP is the best of them all and fits perfectly on the Vita.
I wonder which game will be saving the Vita in five years? I wonder which particular PS1 game will people suddenly want but isn't there? I wonder which sites will put out low reviews for LBPVita to lower the Metacritic score? It's exciting times ahead and I just can't wait to see what headlines we'll get.
Agreed. If the gaming industry was left in the hands of N4G doomsday articles there would be no more consoles for people to play on! I swear some of these "journalists" don't want gaming to succeed at all!
The Vita needs saving? I just finished Wipeout and put 74 hours into Persona 3. I have almost 50 games saved on my Vita and have been using it everyday since launch. If anyone needs saving it's the people writing up these Vita doomsday articles I see daily on N4G.
Viva La Vita
@perjoss
It is irrelevant if you are in denial if it is in trouble or not. Sony has admitted their issues but if you want to put you head in the sand again you don't matter if you do or not. Your not making the device.
I don't think it needs saving, but really you put FIFA up there. There are tons of games that would sell so much better than that. Need For Speed, freaking Little Big Plant, and Persona 4 are just a few. And at this point, I doubt CoD will be selling as many as people though.
Well FIFA is IMO the best port on the vita. It's plays and looks identical to the console so yes a lot of people are looking forward to it and FIFA is as popular as cod and assasins creed so it has the right to there maybe even more so then some of those games. Your probably just not a fan of football you know the most beautiful game? Aswell as the most popular game in the world. I'm not assuming your American but they are the ones that underestimate the power of football. Also persona 4 sell more than FIFA? Lol! Funny.
I'm looking forward to assasins creed and lbp and Nfs the vita sdoesnt need saving in my book journalism does.
FIFA Soccer sold 300,000 worldwide. Persona 4 has only been released in Japan and has already sold 210,000 copies. FIFA 2012 sold 440,000 worlwide on the PSP. Persona 3 Portable sold 510,000 on the PSP. I think it's fair to say that Persona will outsell FIFA. I am American and I don't underestimate the power of soccer. I think that people who love it overestimate the power of it.
But yeah, journalism is going downhill and the Vita is pretty well off.
No it didn't. Persona 4 still hasn't been released in Europe and North America. Once it does, it will exceed FIFA's sales. And it outsold it before on PSP. Your math skills need work.
XMNR: The PS Vita gets one of its most aggressive price promotions at Best Buy for the week of June 10, 2012 with a $50 gift card with both the WiFi and 3G/WiFi versions. Meanwhile, the PS3 gets a free copy of MLB 12: The Show and the retailer is still running with its 100% trade-in bonus promotion.
I totally took advantage of this... Traded in a couple games and came out with 130 bucks lol.
Well that sucks, Best Buy is kind of expensive, but can't complain if they're offering trades like these...
Uh, two Vita games (Unit 13 and Hot Shots), Naruto Generations, BF3, Sonic Generations, and Blazblue CS.
In reality it's not that great of a deal. They give you pretty crappy trade-in value for the games. $14 bucks for Dragon's Dogma? Psh lol.
There are other deals floating around that give you afree game. I think it was target that also included a memory card. If you can find those I'd go with that.
Otherwise I guess this deal is good since you could just use the gift card to buy a big memory card instead of a game.
I dont know whether to wait for the AC bundle that comes with a white vita or pick up this great deal. What do you think? PS nice avatar pic.
It would be personal reference. I don't think you will be missing a whole lot if you waited. I mean you pretty much have the Metal Gear collection right now, the good games don't come out till Assassins creed hits really.
If you can wait, yeah I'd wait because it looks pretty cool and I enjoyed my white PSP.
Yeah thats the problem though because I kind of want to have one when I start college which is early August. And this seems like a great deal especially to start the summer off. Overall I have a week to decide so we will see.
Without Ultimate Team, what are the hackers going to do? ;)
Good review. Not a big soccer fanatic, but enough of one of a fan to get this once the price drops.
Is this $30 or $40?
I might have to wait if they release FIFA 13 for VITA alongside the console ones.
Good review.
Thanks, M.