No ones fucking with the switch let's be real here, that markets cornered. Same way I don't see Nintendo making another dedicated home console.
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Jim Ryan: “Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great, but clearly it’s a business that we’re no longer in”
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Portable devices has gotten to the level where making games for them require a noticeably amount of work, so it takes a lot to support two different systems these days. Thats likely one reason why Sony wont make another portable device, and the same reason why Nintendo went from two system to one system.
Its a bit of a pity i think. PS Vita is my most played portable system (second being the Gameboy Advance), and i would easily have bought a successor.
That doesn't say they won't ever, just that they aren't now but yeah :/
id buy a dedicated Remote Play /PS Now device with a screen for $150. Or better yet a PS4 Switch in a few years when 5nm is possible, but they'd need to move it to LP RAM and that may not be realistic
id buy a dedicated Remote Play /PS Now device with a screen for $150. Or better yet a PS4 Switch in a few years when 5nm is possible, but they'd need to move it to LP RAM and that may not be realistic
What did you expect them to do? They threw damn near everything they could at it that could have reasonably have happened with their first-party makeup and even got third parties to license out their games to them for them to do the porting themselves, and you still couldn't pay folks to want a Vita. As many unforced errors the hardware had, the bottom line comes down to folks not wanting their Sony experience to be in a portable form factor any more.
This is for the best, I'm tired of getting 2 handhelds every gen and developers making exclusives for both. one handheld is more than enough, and Switch is the true vision of (console games on the go), more than PSP or Vita ever hoped to be. now i have 1 console and 1 portable/hybrid and this is more than enough.
I protested its relative high end hardware all the way up to release. Hitting a low price was pivotal IMO.
Handhelds were successful as relative lower budget gaming and aiming premium might excite a few that wouldnt otherwise entertain handhelds, but I didnt think it would be able to catch fire. I still feel this way and maintain that it was one of its issues. Even the 3DS tried pricing too high and had the market slap it down.
Handhelds were successful as relative lower budget gaming and aiming premium might excite a few that wouldnt otherwise entertain handhelds, but I didnt think it would be able to catch fire. I still feel this way and maintain that it was one of its issues. Even the 3DS tried pricing too high and had the market slap it down.
curiously - or not - streaming works and will always work way better in a stationary spot than on the go, for obvious reasons
The real story to me here is that there are still people who need this confirmed. The Vita was awesome but Sony bailed on it after like 2 years. It was third parties who kept it going. I don't think Sony have put out a handheld game in like half a decade.
Disappointing, but not surprising. There's no way I'm ever going to get the same entertainment value out of my Switch that I got out of my Vita.
The only logical outcome. With smartphones and Nintendo around, it would've been impossible.
Whaaaat? Sure you don't mean terrible hardware right? Cause it was awesome in almost every way, except of course Sony had to fuck up with those shitty proprietary memory cards.
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What in god's name make it more toylike then the others? Never mind that all consoles are essentially toys anyways. The switch was marketed almost exclueively to young adults for a year.
Doesn't help they made proprietary hardware for it and didn't even try swapping it in the maybe 6 versions of the device they made.
Vita was an absolute disaster on all levels. Didn't help that Sony cut support just a few years in.
They did not or else they would have gotten their 1st party studios to take it seriously, Mario kart 7 was on 3DS before Mario kart 8 on wiiU/switch. If they wanted to compete with nintendo they should have had GOW4 on vita before they had GOW4 on PS4, they didn'T give the support needed for it to succeed.
That's too bad.
I still play my Vita way more than my Switch. It's way more portable, so that helps.
I'll keep buying games on it and playing it until I clear my backlog. At the rate I'm going, that means I should be done around 2025 or so.
I still play my Vita way more than my Switch. It's way more portable, so that helps.
I'll keep buying games on it and playing it until I clear my backlog. At the rate I'm going, that means I should be done around 2025 or so.
At this point I'm just waiting for a tablet/handheld that can run Steam well so I have tonnes of cheap indie games playable on a handheld, maybe some game streaming with an nvidia card and emulation. That's all I want. I'm sure we'll get there. But it probably won't have a d-pad as good as vita's.
Vita was so damn good for the first year or two. I still take it for journeys. Spelunky, tetris etc. Great form factor and battery charge retention.
Vita was so damn good for the first year or two. I still take it for journeys. Spelunky, tetris etc. Great form factor and battery charge retention.
It wouldn't surprise me if they go back on this at some point... however... if they're reading...
PS Now on Switch please
PS Now on Switch please
The PSP didn't need mainline entries to succeed, so I don't buy that the lack of a Naughty Dog-developed Uncharted on Vita hurt the system much, and certainly not nearly as much as folks being plain uninterested in playing Uncharted on the go to begin with.
The PSP had high-end hardware that no other device could match and was a success, the Vita had 08/15 smartphone hardware that was far from state of the art.
PSP succeeded mostly in Japan and mostly off the back of 3rd parties, most notably monster hunter. Otherwise the PSP was known for being bought for the hardware and then people pirating the games for it.
Sony actually gave more support to PSP in terms of 1st party offerings.
Vita was mind blowing day 1, uncharted on a handheld D:
I also loved killzone and the call of duty game was legit an arcade game where the shotgun was op af
I also loved killzone and the call of duty game was legit an arcade game where the shotgun was op af
Vita was both ahead of its time and behind the curve simultaneously. Kind of strange in hindsight.
I can't say I'm too bothered by them not attempting something like it again, even though I still have mine and quite enjoy it.
I can't say I'm too bothered by them not attempting something like it again, even though I still have mine and quite enjoy it.
I love my PSP and PS Vita, they are amazing systems. But if this makes SIE focus on PS5 and deliver the best gaming console the world has ever seen, then I'll take it.
I think streaming is more the future as far as playing games portably, assuming the network infrastructure is there. I can already play my PS4 and PC remotely, and I'd rather stream from them and get the better image quality, performance, and controls over playing many of the same games natively on my Switch. Just need it to work well on LTE.