Trigonometrize.
Member
Hatsune Miku Diva games are fantastic, Superbeat Xonic and DJMax are both pretty good, and I really enjoyed IA/VT: Colorful for its number of tracks, many of quality.
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The Vita is 4 years old in NA
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Hatsune Miku Diva games are fantastic, Superbeat Xonic and DJMax are both pretty good, and I really enjoyed IA/VT: Colorful for its number of tracks, many of quality.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
HB, Vita!
Awesome little PS1 classics and P4G machine.
Awesome little PS1 classics and P4G machine.
Ssssh, don't tell anyone, but I play other games on it too.
With the rise of smartphones, neither the 3ds or the Vita were going to make as big a splash as their predecessors, but while Nintendo busted their ass to reverse the 3ds' flagging initial sales, Sony just shrugged and walked away.
Happy 4th birthday Vita. You could've been a contender, you could've been somebody, instead of just a bum.
Happy 4th birthday Vita. You could've been a contender, you could've been somebody, instead of just a bum.
foolishoptimist
Member
The Vita has been my most played console over the last 4 years.
Easily one of my favourite gaming systems ever.
It's a shame the recent update giving devs extra ram has hampered the devices multitasking capabilities
Easily one of my favourite gaming systems ever.
It's a shame the recent update giving devs extra ram has hampered the devices multitasking capabilities
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Besides Persona 4 Dancing All Night, Project Diva f2nd is my favorite. Deemo has a cool motif and piano focus, and Xonic is pretty polished and intense... I think that's the game for genre pros. DJ Max Technika Tune is supposed to be good too, but I've only ever popped it in once.
Hidden One
Member
To this day the only game I beat on Vita was Person 4 Golden..
JustCheezze
Banned
Was my first xmas present my wife got for me. Didn't play it as much as I'd have like but it is indeed a great portable system. Definitely has shown its age in terms of hardware performance but yeah, I still enjoy it whenever I can.
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
I would guess ~10-12 million, around Wii U numbers.
HideyoshiJP
Member
In celebration, I checked out the Vita section at my local Best Buy. They had three whole games: MLB 15, Freedom Wars, and Lego Jurassic Park. They also had a full hanger of 64GB cards and another full of 32GB cards. I'm not salty...
My most played console in the past few years, thanks to long transit times to work plus 3yr twins!
The backlog is real and hefty at least 25-30 games... I don't PC game, so all the "PC indie darlings" are new to me...
The amazing thing is that if a were to get through all the Vita stuff, I'd still have the ability to play some PSone or PSP games, which I've never really touch upon...
The backlog is real and hefty at least 25-30 games... I don't PC game, so all the "PC indie darlings" are new to me...
The amazing thing is that if a were to get through all the Vita stuff, I'd still have the ability to play some PSone or PSP games, which I've never really touch upon...
minkymuskyslyoldstoaty
Member
Thanks for the suggestions - time to do a little research.
It's too bad, but as mentioned by others the mobile landscape evolving really crippled the vita and the handheld market in general. Sony decided they'd rather dominate the console market and they devoted all their resources to that division and it's paid dividends for them.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Your Best Buy stocks 64GB cards?
How is taiko no tatsujin? I can't imagine with smashing huge drums with big sticks rather than teeny buttons. But is it good?
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
happy birthday buddy
Napalm_Frank
Member
What is dead may never die.
Best handheld to date. Shame it didn't catch on.
Best handheld to date. Shame it didn't catch on.
nephilimdj
Member
Owned a Vita for about 30months now, pretty happy. If I need to catch a bus/train, 9/10 its in my bag.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Bioshocker
Member
I don't care much for portable gaming but I really like the PS Vita. Amazing system with some amazing games (Tearaway is awesome). A shame Sony gave up on it so early.
Don't worry, your library will get up to over a hundred games soon enough!
Sometimes I still wonder how I have more games on the Vita than I had on any other platform.
Modest Mauser
Member
OLED 4 lyfe
also twin sticks 4 lyfe
hopefully another handheld with both these things is again a reality in the future
also twin sticks 4 lyfe
hopefully another handheld with both these things is again a reality in the future
Klart
Member
Yup. It's pretty much a gamer's handheld dream come true.
JehutyRunner
Banned
It gave me Persona 4 Golden.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the GOAT.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the GOAT.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
I still have my launch unit. I remember the employees at Gamestop being shocked that someone pre-ordered it haha.
Persona 4: Golden made it worth it for me. I wouldn't have played Persona 4 were it not for the handheld release.
Unfortunately that, and Rayman Origins were the only retail releases I enjoyed on the platform.
Now it's just my PS1 classics device outside of the occasional PSP game I forgot I purchased digitally.
Sony mishandled the device for sure, but it was obvious it was never going to do well right from the announcement of it.
Persona 4: Golden made it worth it for me. I wouldn't have played Persona 4 were it not for the handheld release.
Unfortunately that, and Rayman Origins were the only retail releases I enjoyed on the platform.
Now it's just my PS1 classics device outside of the occasional PSP game I forgot I purchased digitally.
Sony mishandled the device for sure, but it was obvious it was never going to do well right from the announcement of it.
20cent
Banned
Still using mine intensively since launch day.
I understand that it bombed since few people found it appealing enough to get one, but how does one who already has it wouldn't recommend or use it because... no games?
What did you expect from it? Well, don't buy a handled console if you don't really like playing (portable or not) videogames. My backlog on Vita never ends...
I understand that it bombed since few people found it appealing enough to get one, but how does one who already has it wouldn't recommend or use it because... no games?
What did you expect from it? Well, don't buy a handled console if you don't really like playing (portable or not) videogames. My backlog on Vita never ends...
FantasticMrSnake
Member
Really? Happy birthday.
Where is our psn sale?
Where is our psn sale?
I sold mine recently since I didn't see a reason to keep it. Many of its best games are getting ported to other platforms (Tearaway, Gravity Rush, Danganronpa etc.). It's a great device to play PS1 and indie games, but as for stuff you can only play on the Vita, there isn't much of it.
I don't regret buying it when I did. I really enjoyed playing Persona 4 Golden, Danganronpa and Steins;Gate on it. I'm definitely over the device though.
I don't regret buying it when I did. I really enjoyed playing Persona 4 Golden, Danganronpa and Steins;Gate on it. I'm definitely over the device though.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Marketing buzzwords 4 lyfe!
In all seriousness, though, the OLED display is one thing I *don't* remember fondly about the Vita, as it was an early gen display with a number of inherent flaws. Above and beyond the "blotches" mentioned, there were a number of issues with it, issues which were rectified by the Vita-2000, a criminally underrated and underappreciated hardware refresh that seems to have been snubbed by most fans of the system in the west:
1) Poor calibration, resulting in gaudy oversaturated colours. The IPS panel in Vita-2000 is well calibrated, and only shows saturation where it's necessary (like in Persona 4 Dancing).
The white point was also way off, which gave the screen this unnatural blue glow, as whites would appear blue-ish.
2) Burn in. Some users had the web browser menu bars burned into their screen, others had game HUDs.
3) very low max brightness. Peaks at 117cdm2, when IPS LCDs were reaching 600cdm2. This made it pretty unusable outdoors.
4) Mura/grain, which renders solid colours as grainy canvases, which is quite noticeable and distracting.
5) Power consumption. Vita-2000's LCD gets the system about 2 hours more battery life out of a charge. One of OLED's strengths, the amazingly deep black levels, were also squandered with Vita, as most of the OS and games aren't designed around black UIs or environments where the pixels are turned off. This isn't a big deal, but it's worth noting.
6) It's covered in greasy plastic. The Vita-2000's LCD is covered in oleophobic glass, which feels much better to the thumb, but also means fingerprints are never a problem. Every time I pull the Vita-2000 out of my pocket the screen is spotless. Meanwhile the Vita-1000 OLED was always covered in distracting fingerprint oil stains. The plastic was also uneven, giving it a cheaper feeling.
7) Limited lifespan. Vita's OLED uses an RGB stripe, so it has a full amount of red, green and blue subpixels. While this is better than an OLED "PenTile" subpixel matrix, which would result in a lower perceived resolution, it means that the image quality degrades over time.
Blue subpixels in OLED displays degrade faster than the others, which results in even worse colour reproduction over the lifespan of the device (Samsung estimated degradation to occur after 18 months of daily use). So a screen that already displays stupidly off colours gets worse over time.
Modern OLED displays have overcome a lot of these problems (1, 3 and 5, number 7 is fixed by using a PenTile subpixel matrix combined with a higher ppi), so I wouldn't mind seeing the tech return in a future handheld either, but the Vita-1000's hasn't aged well by today's standards. The only real benefit today to the Vita-1000's display is better response times, as the deep blacks are wasted since few games and apps show blacks.
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I went off on a tangent there, but that's the thing, the main issue with Vita's messaging in the first year was an abundance of marketing terms which meant nothing to the customer - OLED, twin sticks, rear touchpad, 2ghz quad core (the Cortex A9 cores in the Vita don't actually run at 2ghz anyway), these phrases ultimately carried little meaning. At the end of the day what mattered was the games, and I've had hundreds of hours of fun with my Vita, playing a variety of games that weren't linked to such marketing buzzwords.
While marketing has also played a large role in PS4's success, the difference there was that marketing played to peoples' emotions in a way Vita's didn't. So Sony at least learned from Vita's mistakes there.
It's easy to see in hindsight why the Vita didn't take off as well as we hoped (mainly a reliance on IP in the early days that didn't carry massmarket appeal, poorly defined marketing buzzwords which meant little to the consumer, and a lack of differentiation from the experience people can get from Sony's own consoles in face of the rising convenience of smartphone games).
But at the end of the day the games ended up carrying more weight for how we perceive the system today. And the changing market took Vita to new places, which I liked a lot. Instead of receiving the odd port of games designed for home console and big TVs (as good as some of those were), we saw Sony open the gates to independent developers and the system play host to a bunch of otherwise-overlooked games from Japan whose western releases would have been unthinkable in the market 5-10 years ago. As a handheld it's a superb complement to any other platform, including its closest cousin the 3DS. And ironically, Sony's plans not to release a successor should keep this system kicking about for many years to come, I think. Vita really *does* mean life.
This powerful portable console deserved more love from everyone. Too bad just a couple of the exclusives were interesting. If only Sony inverted for this console the same way they did with the PSP, things would be totally different.
And those expensive memory cards... Clue to success.
The only reason I have right now to buy that console is P4G. Gravity Rush and Tearaway were as well, but I have a PS4.
And those expensive memory cards... Clue to success.
The only reason I have right now to buy that console is P4G. Gravity Rush and Tearaway were as well, but I have a PS4.
Langdon Alger
Banned
Greatest handheld ever made.
Klart
Member
So why no Rayman Legends?
baudelinog
Member
My most beloved gaming system since the SNES. And most probably my last "most beloved gaming system", forever and ever.
Modest Mauser
Member
Tangible features of the device aren't buzzwords. I recognize the issues with the early OLED tech, but I still love the display. I wish they had replaced the panel with a newer generation of OLED in the Vita 2000 rather than drop it for LCD.
SmiteOfHand
Member
Vita, and by extension PSTV, gets a lot of shit, and for good reason. Sony dropped the ball on several facets, but all the same flipping between the two and having save files sync is fucking rad. It will be interesting to see if Nintendo improves on the whole idea with the NX if rumors prove to be true.
Shame that Vita/PSTV swapping feels one or two revisions away from really knocking it out of the park but Sony just isn't having it.
Shame that Vita/PSTV swapping feels one or two revisions away from really knocking it out of the park but Sony just isn't having it.
MikeE21286
Member
Just got one of the aqua blue vita's at the recent Gamestop sale.
Maybe placebo affect, but the remote play on the new 2000 slim is working waaaay better than on my original OLED unit.
Loving remote play now on ps4
Maybe placebo affect, but the remote play on the new 2000 slim is working waaaay better than on my original OLED unit.
Loving remote play now on ps4
DrROBschiz
Member
I love you Vita
And all you haters should check out the 2016 lineup
Such a shame Sony never loved the system as much as the community(niche) did
And all you haters should check out the 2016 lineup
Such a shame Sony never loved the system as much as the community(niche) did