PSP vita a fail?
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why do people say the vita is considered a failure?
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You must have an opinion on the topic. Or are you posting for bonus points.
Vita sales are sluggish, at best. It's sales figures are around the same as the WII.
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I personally own one along with the PS4, I rarely find myself using it to I have a friend borrowing it. He does use it for remote play when I am not using my own PS4 and it's kinda neat, doubt many people have picked up the Vita though and I don't blame them.
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It is a huge hit in Japan. If you look at most sold games, you will find titles to the PS Vita in the top of the list. But most of those games are made for the japanese market and will not be released here. Nintendo 3DS has sold over 50 million units and the Vita, is it about 10 and then mostly in Japan?
Sony is not making it easier for the Vita not releasing AAA-titles to it. It has Final Fantasy X and X-2 but that is it. And titles made for the japanese market are not released in the west.
I was looking for an handheld console cause I travels a lot and has to wait at stations and airports and playing on my phone eats to much of the energy bar of the battery. I never really liked the old Nintendo 3DS, mostly cause it has really bad resolution and I had the XL version. But I picked up a regular sized New Nintendo 3DS anyway, the 3D effect is better and the low resolution is not that obvious on the smaller screen, but it is still noticible. I have a dozen of games on my phone, like Mortal Kombat X mobile, that is stunning in comparison.
But New 3DS gives me RPG:s like Xenoblade and Monster Hunters 4, than I have classics like Zelda, Super Mario and Pokemon, games that might not be that much serious gaming and can be a bit to childish, but they are still good games for passing time. And I know there will be a new port of Zelda - Wariors of Hyrule, a new Final Fantasy Explorer and finally Bravely Second next year.
When I am not playing RPG:s I love story driven games with a more darker touch, I loved Heavy Rain on PS3. But a game like Until Dawn is only released on PS4, it was developed for PS3 and delayed, so there is no technical reason they could not do a version for the Vita. They just don't want to do it and there they lost me as a buyer. I even considered a Nvidia Shield tablet for portable gaming, but it didn't felt so practical have a tablet and a gamepad outside your home.
I am not a fanboy, I have had NES, SNES, Gamecube, XBOX, two PS3, two PSP, Nintendo DS, 3DS, XBOX One…
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I think it's largely seen as a failure because the gaming media pushed the concept hard that it was.
For games in Japan to get released in the US usually means some company like Atlus would have to buy the license and pay to localize the game, but that means it isn't a first party game which is what's gotten written about recently (that there aren't a lot of first party games being made for vita). Many smaller western developers seem more drawn to making games for Steam or phone games, likely because in the west we're a lot more open to Steam as a platform in comparison to in Japan where they usually focus on playing on consoles. I doubt Sony is really against developers doing anything on the Vita if they're from the US, so it seems more an issue of why one platform appeals to developers to build on rather than another, so I think the Vita just has issues competing with the PC since it's much easier to break into.
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they just stoped producing original big developer titles and relied on indie games to push it through, so it became a glorified psp. sad
