>The Vita will be saved when X title is madeSo long as the Vita gets better exclusives and new IP, I think it's outlook will improve
>The Vita will be saved when X title is madeSo long as the Vita gets better exclusives and new IP, I think it's outlook will improve
Stop. This is what people have been saying through the releases of Gravity Rush, Persona 4, Project Diva, and Ys V
Each time, it receives a moderate bump in sales for one single week then sinks back down to the usual abysmal levels
It needs a lot more than one game. Try a dozen attractive titles, a substantial price cut, and included memory cards. Then you might be in business. I'm not really sure Sony can afford any of that though
As much as I LOVE to bash the Vita, comparing a true gaming device to a mobile phone is just wrong.The Vita is just wrong, beautiful but wrong, for these times anyway..
Sony should have designed it somehow like a PSP GO ( with hidden controls ) but with a larger screen and all the bells and whistles that come with the Vita and try to sell it / present it as a smart phone capable of running PS3 caliber games.
Also being able to run those cheap smart phone games on their better hardware would have attracted millions of people....
My 12 years old nephew begged his father for a birthday gift, originally he wanted a Vita, but then he settled (!) for a 500 EUR Galaxy S3.
And the reason is , he can get more games for cheap, there are more games that he actually cares for and of course the phone can do much more then the Vita anyway....
And he is an avid Xbox360 player..I mean he can play and finish most games in one or two afternoons....
Sadly, that's the way the market is shifting , people want their damn smart phones and play crappy high resolution games on it, even without proper controls.
There is just no room for portable consoles, saves for the child friendly 3DS, which parents see more safe to buy for their kids compared to an higher end product.
As unsuccessful as it was, Sony was ahead of it's time with the Go and should have sticked to the design and add touch screen and accelerometer like every phone out there, THAT would have been a realistic approach to today's market.
I if were in charge, I would redesign the Vita and make it look more like a GO or Xperia Play , and relaunch it altogether .
Or quietly sell it as a redesign, I'm sure it'll do infinitely better.
As much as I LOVE to bash the Vita, comparing a true gaming device to a mobile phone is just wrong.The Vita is just wrong, beautiful but wrong, for these times anyway..
Sony should have designed it somehow like a PSP GO ( with hidden controls ) but with a larger screen and all the bells and whistles that come with the Vita and try to sell it / present it as a smart phone capable of running PS3 caliber games.
Also being able to run those cheap smart phone games on their better hardware would have attracted millions of people....
My 12 years old nephew begged his father for a birthday gift, originally he wanted a Vita, but then he settled (!) for a 500 EUR Galaxy S3.
And the reason is , he can get more games for cheap, there are more games that he actually cares for and of course the phone can do much more then the Vita anyway....
And he is an avid Xbox360 player..I mean he can play and finish most games in one or two afternoons....
Sadly, that's the way the market is shifting , people want their damn smart phones and play crappy high resolution games on it, even without proper controls.
There is just no room for portable consoles, saves for the child friendly 3DS, which parents see more safe to buy for their kids compared to an higher end product.
As unsuccessful as it was, Sony was ahead of it's time with the Go and should have sticked to the design and add touch screen and accelerometer like every phone out there, THAT would have been a realistic approach to today's market.
I if were in charge, I would redesign the Vita and make it look more like a GO or Xperia Play , and relaunch it altogether .
Or quietly sell it as a redesign, I'm sure it'll do infinitely better.
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As much as I LOVE to bash the Vita, comparing a true gaming device to a mobile phone is just wrong.
Wow, that was... interesting... but no.~Snip!~
I knew someone would disagree with my claim but...As much as I LOVE to bash the Vita, comparing a true gaming device to a mobile phone is just wrong.The Vita is just wrong, beautiful but wrong, for these times anyway..
Sony should have designed it somehow like a PSP GO ( with hidden controls ) but with a larger screen and all the bells and whistles that come with the Vita and try to sell it / present it as a smart phone capable of running PS3 caliber games.
Also being able to run those cheap smart phone games on their better hardware would have attracted millions of people....
My 12 years old nephew begged his father for a birthday gift, originally he wanted a Vita, but then he settled (!) for a 500 EUR Galaxy S3.
And the reason is , he can get more games for cheap, there are more games that he actually cares for and of course the phone can do much more then the Vita anyway....
And he is an avid Xbox360 player..I mean he can play and finish most games in one or two afternoons....
Sadly, that's the way the market is shifting , people want their damn smart phones and play crappy high resolution games on it, even without proper controls.
There is just no room for portable consoles, saves for the child friendly 3DS, which parents see more safe to buy for their kids compared to an higher end product.
As unsuccessful as it was, Sony was ahead of it's time with the Go and should have sticked to the design and add touch screen and accelerometer like every phone out there, THAT would have been a realistic approach to today's market.
I if were in charge, I would redesign the Vita and make it look more like a GO or Xperia Play , and relaunch it altogether .
Or quietly sell it as a redesign, I'm sure it'll do infinitely better.
No, it's not. Because, whether you or anyone else likes it or not, phones are quickly catching up to anything a dedicated gaming device can do. There's nothing a Vita can do that an Android tablet or new(ish) phone can't do. Besides hardware controls, but even then, they can all take controllers.
I think that's part of why the Vita isn't selling. It has no games, get's little publicity, and costs the same as a phone that can play many, many games, emulate anything N64/PSX and below, and can do so much more.
Maybe you're different, but you're not the general public. They don't want to carry around tons of devices. They want one. 3DS only picked up speed after the pricedrop. And even then, it had the whole DS game selection behind it.
It's not wrong at all, because I'm sorry, but handheld gaming is truly being hit by mobile gaming.