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[JustAnotherOtaku]

Disappointing news about the Vita version.

2D side-scrolling shooter Not A Hero is heading to PS4 on February 2, developer Roll7 has announced. The PlayStation Vita version, however, has been cancelled.

http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/not_a...s4_in_february_ps_vita_version_cancelled.html

 

[Massa]

Not a surprise at all, that game wouldn't work on a 5" screen.

 

[RK128]

Disappointing news about the Vita version.



http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/not_a...s4_in_february_ps_vita_version_cancelled.html

Oh well . Guess I'm not buying the game now for sure.

Wish the studio luck for the project and hope its a success.

 

[eFKac]

Finally! Been waiting for it!

They took their time, probably trying to make it work on the Vita, they'll still get shit for it.

 

[Acquiescence]

Get Gio Corsi on the phone.

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

Oh for fuck's sake, lawd. My Vita was ready. PS4 it is then :/

 

[RK128]

Finally! Been waiting for it!

They took their time, probably trying to make it work on the Vita, they'll still get shit for it.

Then don't announce a Vita version unless you know it will come to it. It misleads people and upsets them if they don't own a PS4.

Regardless, they are great developers and the likely case was just development issues with the game on Vita. Hope that they have success on PS4 when the game comes out.

 

[dugdug]

Another Vita version of a game bites the dust.

With indies dropping out of support for the machine, we might be sunsetting this console faster than expected. What a massive shame.

I appreciate that they tried, at least.

 

[Jawmuncher]

But I wanted this for vita. Support is starting to dry up from even the indies.

 

[ArtHands]

I'll be getting it on the PC anyway.

 

[Prelude.]

Another Vita version of a game bites the dust.

With indies dropping out of support for the machine, we might be sunsetting this console faster than expected. What a massive shame.

I appreciate that they tried, at least.

There are like, what, 5 indies out of 500 that didn't make it?

 

[SliceSabre]

Guess I won't be getting this game then.

 

[Kresnik258]

Bleh. Oh well. To the bottom of the pile it goes!

(I'll still play it on PS4, I'm just less likely to than on Vita, so I'll get round to it as and when).

Shame.

 

[Shinriji]

I still remember OlliOlli crashing every single time on vita.

 

[Prelude.]

I still remember OlliOlli crashing every single time on vita.

Randomly? I noticed that it crashes only when you change track too often.

 

[VLiberty]

Hopefully it's coming to psplus or it gets glitched on the store, because I won't spend a single cent on this game, like i won't for any of those indies canceled on vita.

I can understand if it happens sometimes, but now it's happening on a daily basis.

 

[Xeroblade]

With remote play every game is on the vita! :/

 

[GoldandBlue]

Hopefully it's coming to psplus or it gets glitched on the store, because I won't spend a single cent on this game, like i won't for any of those indies canceled on vita.

I can understand if it happens sometimes, but now it's happening on a daily basis.

So you wanna play it but you won't pay because they tried to make it work on the Vita but in the end it gave them trouble?

 

[Siege.exe]

Hopefully it's coming to psplus or it gets glitched on the store, because I won't spend a single cent on this game, like i won't for any of those indies canceled on vita.

I can understand if it happens sometimes, but now it's happening on a daily basis.

Is it really?

 

[sechsterangriff]

The guys from BlitWorks should start licensing their Unsharper tool. It's clear that that games designed with a tolerable overhead on consoles, but unmanageable on portables, are getting progressively harder to port.

 

[Darrenf]

Damn wanted to play this on Vita. Oh well.

 

[pizzapizza64]

Sad to see, but I don't blame any developers who choose to move on from making Vita ports of their games.

 

[DrROBschiz]

Man

When even the Indie scene is starting to jump ship on Vita


Not their fault though. I hear the dev software for Vita hasnt been well maintained and its just easier to go with the power and support of PS4

Sucks because having a portable option has always been better for me but hey

Niche minorities are always first to get cut lol

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Another Vita version of a game bites the dust.

With indies dropping out of support for the machine, we might be sunsetting this console faster than expected. What a massive shame.

I appreciate that they tried, at least.

Japan will keep the Vita alive for another year at least.

 

[18-Volt]

With remote play every game is on the vita! :/

Disclaimer: Those who don't own a PS4, need to pay $350 to get one and then use remote play.

But I wanted this for vita. Support is starting to dry up from even the indies.

Handheld NX will eat up all the remaining Vita support, so until then let's try to have fun in its final months.

 

[Sarcasm]

Oh well, guess I will grab it for PC.

 

[Occam]

No Vita port = less likelihood of me buying it.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Get Gio Corsi on the phone.

#buildingthelist

 

[VLiberty]

So you wanna play it but you won't pay because they tried to make it work on the Vita but in the end it gave them trouble?

Because that's surely the reason.

I'm perfectly aware that some games are not easy to port, but it's not the case for all the games. This is likely not one of them.

Looking at the full picture, I see that:

- it doesn't look a very demanding game and I don't think it runs on some weird engine. Considering that the original devs(which unfortunately have nothing to do with the ports) are first of all Vita devs and the Vita version was announced from the get go, I doubt they've developed the PC version in some weird way that made it un-portable to Vita.
- it's from a publisher that apparently is slowly dropping Vita support (most of the new Devolver games do not even get Vita versions, and this one follows Broforce's cancellation)
- if we went from getting a handful of indie canceled per year, to getting a handful of indie canceled in the first week alone of the year, it definitely doesn't (only) have to do with developing isssues anymore.

Is it really?

We've lost Fenix Rage, Not a Hero, and likely Shadow Blade and Klaus in the span of a week. Maybe I'm even forgetting something

 

[{insert code here}]

Another Vita version of a game bites the dust.

With indies dropping out of support for the machine, we might be sunsetting this console faster than expected. What a massive shame.

I appreciate that they tried, at least.

Uh, somebody wanna link this guy that VitaGAF thread?
You know.... the one..... with like..... 200+ announced games....

 

[PooBone]

Damn. I liked the look a lot.

Well, I'm out.

 

[smenden18]

It's not so much that I'm mad at the developer for canceling, but that I don't really care about playing a game like this on my 60in TV. These types of games to me fit perfectly on handheld platforms. Just my preference.

 

[{insert code here}]

We've lost Fenix Rage, Not a Hero, and likely Shadow Blade and Klaus in the span of a week. Maybe I'm even forgetting something

You got links for cancellations of Fenix Furia, Shadow Blade, and Klaus for the Vita? Or s this just conjecture. Just because the Vita version isn't launching day and date with the PS4 versions does not mean said Vita versions have been cancelled. Look at Volume, Bastion, Axiom Verge, and New n Tasty. Those didn't get cancelled, just the realities of being an indie developer making dual launches difficult.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

Balls. I'll pick up the PC version then.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

We get a ton of great indie games on the Vita, more than I have time to play. It still has a tremendous 2016 catalog.

But this sucks.

 

[Shizuka]

Better Call Gio.

 

[Robert at Zeboyd Games]

Not their fault though. I hear the dev software for Vita hasnt been well maintained and its just easier to go with the power and support of PS4

At least on Unity (which is what we use), this is not the case. Constant updates to Unity for Vita and there was also that big improvement not long ago that lets you free up a bunch more RAM for developer use.

I think the typical problem is people think "I have an indie game so a Vita port will be easy," put it off until late in development and then realize that the Vita port isn't easy. Either they've seriously overestimated how much power the Vita has and discover that their poorly optimized game that the PS4 or a modern computer can brute force through is only getting 6 fps on the Vita or their very design doesn't work well on the Vita. Like with Not a Hero, it looks like the camera is zoomed far out so you can see a lot of the stage at once - they'd probably need to zoom it in for the player on the Vita so that you could actually see what you're doing and that might mess with gameplay or their engine.

 

[2+2=5]

Honestly it never appealed to me at all, i mean IIRC you can only shoot forward!
In any case a bad news.

 

[Withnail]

After OlliOlli2 was so good I'll be picking this up day one on PS4.

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

So I could have bought the PC version this whole time I've been holding out waiting for the vita version?

I'll get the PC version when it's on sale, I don't really like playing these kind of games on my ps4 for some weird reason

 

[LifeBrandRobot]

That's a shame about the Vita version. I only play these smaller indie games on my Vita so I'll have to give this a permanent pass unless they change their mind.

 

[Majine]

 

[Footos22]

I was a pretty keen vita gamer but seen the light a year ago. Just give it up. You're not getting shit. Its dead. And the amounts they sell on it wouldn't even cover the cost of development half the time. I doubt the banner saga will ever come either.

 

[Novocaine]

Randomly? I noticed that it crashes only when you change track too often.

It was kind of buggy at launch, has been patched since though.

Shame about no Vita port but I'll still keep an eye on it. The Olli Olli games are good.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

.

 

[Megauap]

Get Gio Corsi on the phone.

And be like this?

 

[5taquitos]

At least on Unity (which is what we use), this is not the case. Constant updates to Unity for Vita and there was also that big improvement not long ago that lets you free up a bunch more RAM for developer use.

I think the typical problem is people think "I have an indie game so a Vita port will be easy," put it off until late in development and then realize that the Vita port isn't easy. Either they've seriously overestimated how much power the Vita has and discover that their poorly optimized game that the PS4 or a modern computer can brute force through is only getting 6 fps on the Vita or their very design doesn't work well on the Vita. Like with Not a Hero, it looks like the camera is zoomed far out so you can see a lot of the stage at once - they'd probably need to zoom it in for the player on the Vita so that you could actually see what you're doing and that might mess with gameplay or their engine.

Get that logic out of here.

 

[Raytow]

oh joy another predictable turn for a vita thread...

 

[GhostTrick]

At least on Unity (which is what we use), this is not the case. Constant updates to Unity for Vita and there was also that big improvement not long ago that lets you free up a bunch more RAM for developer use.

I think the typical problem is people think "I have an indie game so a Vita port will be easy," put it off until late in development and then realize that the Vita port isn't easy. Either they've seriously overestimated how much power the Vita has and discover that their poorly optimized game that the PS4 or a modern computer can brute force through is only getting 6 fps on the Vita or their very design doesn't work well on the Vita. Like with Not a Hero, it looks like the camera is zoomed far out so you can see a lot of the stage at once - they'd probably need to zoom it in for the player on the Vita so that you could actually see what you're doing and that might mess with gameplay or their engine.

People tend to overestimate Vita hardware and underestimate how a 2D game can be ressource intensive.

 

[Shinriji]

I was a pretty keen vita gamer but seen the light a year ago. Just give it up. You're not getting shit. Its dead. And the amounts they sell on it wouldn't even cover the cost of development half the time. I doubt the banner saga will ever come either.

Just hope that the next Nintendo handheld isn't shit, because I really don't want to play on cellphones.