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[Etzer]

I never got the point of Foursquare. Don't Facebook and Twitter have options to add a location to your tweets/status updates?

PLASTICA-MAN should be the honorary mayor. He's had a hard life, what with this Foursquare tragedy and all.

lol

Do you know totobeni? You two would get along.

LOL

 

[KimonoNoNo]

PLASTICA-MAN fishing for a tag?

 

[VanWinkle]

I love the OP's reaction to this utterly mundane news. Somehow got SSM into it, even.

 

[DemonNite]

It's over, period. Sony lost their last ace, and that's the end of their Vita hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for Vita. Sony has nothing left, nothing they can reveal tomorrow would fix the hole now created by removing Foursquare. There is no reason left for any one, hardcore or casual, to substantively invest in a Vita. Except if they want to watch YouTube. Which will also come to PS4 at some point.

The age of Sony is done.

 

[Face it Tiger..]

It's over, period. Sony lost their last ace, and that's the end of their Vita hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for Vita. Sony has nothing left, nothing they can reveal tomorrow would fix the hole now created by removing Foursquare. There is no reason left for any one, hardcore or casual, to substantively invest in a Vita. Except if they want to watch YouTube. Which will also come to PS4 at some point.

The age of Sony is done.

Reminds me of a certain Amirox post

 

[Ponn]

On my way to trade my Vita in right now. This news has turned it into a useless piece of junk now.

 

[JesseZao]

PLASTICA-MAN
Greetings everyone. C4 meets 4S. Dead.
(Today, 09:07 AM)

 

[injurai]

bringing SSM into this makes it obvious your grasping for strays to spell doom

 

[dugdug]

For his disgrace, I demand Kaz be tied to a rocket ship and fired into the sun.

 

[Daedardus]

What's a Foursquare again?

 

[JBourne]

I'm still pissed they removed the Crunchyroll Vita app from the store.

Spoiler

It was never there. They've been promising it was coming for 2 years and it still aint here.

It's out for NA, at least.

 

[Camjo-Z]

It's over, period. Sony lost their last ace, and that's the end of their Vita hopes and dreams.

It's not hyperbole, it's not fanboy drivel. It is LITERALLY it for Vita. Sony has nothing left, nothing they can reveal tomorrow would fix the hole now created by removing Foursquare. There is no reason left for any one, hardcore or casual, to substantively invest in a Vita. Except if they want to watch YouTube. Which will also come to PS4 at some point.

The age of Sony is done.

Sony just shot themselves in the foot.

 

[Neuromancer]

Is the Altavista app still on the store, at least?

 

[DrDamn]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/04/fo...-location-and-context-for-windows-and-mobile/

Also rumoured to be buying them outright.

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/04/fo...-location-and-context-for-windows-and-mobile/

Also rumoured to be buying them outright.

Umm, interesting, sounds like the most plausible reason, but still, skype is now owned by Microsoft and supports many devices including the Vita.

 

[RMI]

What's a Foursquare again?

I think it's like Twitter but for where you ate lunch. Also nobody uses it.

Honestly I don't know.

 

[Opiate]

They removed Netscape from the browser options too.

 

[Tsundere]

Sony just shot themselves in the foot.

Literally.

 

[maverick40]

Why would anyone use the vita foursquare app when you can just use the better app on any smart phone? The app was never used on the vita so why would sony keep it on?

 

[Fheonix]

I'd doubt it has anything to do with Microsoft owning them right...? I mean, Skype's still on the Vita?

 

[massoluk]

I think it's like Twitter but for where you ate lunch. Also nobody uses it.

Honestly I don't know.

Let's be fair, it comes in handy for AMEX discount during Restaurant Week. But I wouldn't really take out a Vita to check in at a fancy restaurant.

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Why would anyone use the vita foursquare app when you can just use the better app on any smart phone? The app was never used on the vita so why would sony keep it on?

I just wanted to know the reason for its removal that's all and whether it is because of dumping the 3G feature in the new PS Vita models which may lead to the removal of Near and t@g and comparable apps in the future.

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

I'd doubt it has anything to do with Microsoft owning them right...? I mean, Skype's still on the Vita?

That is what I thought too.

 

[Carl]

People use Foursquare?

 

[DrDamn]

I'd doubt it has anything to do with Microsoft owning them right...? I mean, Skype's still on the Vita?

Probably not, though Skype is something customers can pay for which makes removing an app more problematic. It's probably more that with recent investment they would need to spend some money on updating and maintaining the app and it's not worth it for them based on usage.

 

[doctorblurg]

I had totally forgot foursquare was even a thing. I've never seen a single person using it.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

A true Nerd never leaves his parent's basement, of course Foursquare was going the way of the dodo.

 

[Etzer]

It's out for NA, at least.

Nope. Only PS3 and PS4. Vita app was announced twice; first along with the PS3 version in 2012, and then by itself in 2013.

 

[STG]

I think it's like Twitter but for where you ate lunch.

Isn't that instagram?

 

[SolsticeZero]

Dump welcome park before Near. Or at least make Near useful.

 

[JBourne]

Nope. Only PS3 and PS4. Vita app was announced twice; first along with the PS3 version in 2012, and then by itself in 2013.

Ah, I had it mixed up with Crackle. My mistake.