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You know what? f*** you, Sony

I bought a Vita many years ago (Tearaway pack) and still play today. I also have a Switch Lite, but the Vita gets much more use.

Sony never really understood the appeal of handheld consoles. They were always trying to release the same shit as on home consoles. I don't buy a handheld to play Uncharted. Same thing with the Switch by the way.

Even tough the library is not huge, and ambitious games are not that numerous, I still enjoy Vita and think there is a ton of games to play on it.

I personally don't like it for PSP, PS1 or retro games though. PSP games feel very blurry, even with Adrenaline. Still serviceable, but I prefer native Vita games.
 
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Wierd time to be upset about the Vita. The Vita came out at a time where mobile was killing handhelds and they were a distant second in a shrinking market. It had nothing to do with proprietary storage otherwise the 360 and the Series X and Series S do too and that didn't stop them. It was a stupid inconvenience to pay more but if anything the proprietary storage recouped some money and encouraged releasing games to fill them even if there was piracy unlike the PSP and its adapters that circumvented proprietary storage.
 
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Yeah nah, it was shit and doomed from day one. No one wants shittier versions of ps3/ps4 games, especially when the 3ds is available and had a dramatically better game lineup.
 
Aion002 said:
I love the Vita.


Such competent device, Sony really should have paid for a Monster Hunter on it. Souls Sacrifice, Toukiden and Freedom Wars were good, but nothing beats MH. The lack of it killed Vita on Japan.... Sooo Yeah! Fuck Sony! Vita deserved better.
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This so much, i think the west was very out of touch by making all this other excuses about why the Vita failed when in reality it was very obvious from the start, Monster Hunter killed it.
PSP was a Monster Hunter machine for lots of Japanese players who are arguably the market that really move portables first and Vita not having the new one was it's death sentence.
 
AetherMage said:
Really? Thought I just read that PSVR wouldn't be supported on PS5 for at least 2 years? I was disappointed because I still have some backlog to take care of. Hope you're right.
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What they meant is that there (probably) won't be any PS5-specific games for PSVR, until their next-generation headset comes out. That doesn't rule out new PS4 VR games that can be played on PS5 via BC. Personally I'm waiting for Hitman 3, Sniper Elite, Humanity, Solaris: Offworld Combat, amongst others.

Blood and Truth and Now Firewall have confirmed updates that will take advantage of the faster clocks, with improved resolution, framerate, and even effects/assets. They're still PS4 games, so no PS5-specific advantages like Ray Tracing, etc. They act more like a PS4 Super Pro thing.
 
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Wonko_C said:
What they meant is that there (probably) won't be any PS5-specific games for PSVR, until their next-generation headset comes out. That doesn't rule out new PS4 VR games that can be played on PS5 via BC. Personally I'm waiting for Hitman 3, Sniper Elite, Humanity, Solaris: Offworld Combat, amongst others.

Blood and Truth and Now Firewall have confirmed updates that will take advantage of the faster clocks, with improved resolution, framerate, and even effects/assets. They're still PS4 games, so no PS5-specific advantages like Ray Tracing, etc. They act more like a PS4 Super Pro thing.
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Nice! Glad to hear it. Moss is next for me, probably going to be Blood & Truth after.
 
Vita software was actually inconsistence, the hardware was positively great but don't be fooled by hardware, at the end of the way gamers are playing on the far best TV console experience.
 
I posted this thread at the college (I think I said that's where I was in the original post), and haven't been to the forum since. Just been busy. It's a delayed reaction about being upset because I only got my Vita about 2 years ago. Maybe even less than that. My brother-in-law didn't want his anymore since he didn't play it and gave it to me, along with like 20 games or so. I ended up trading a few into a local store for store credit because I didn't think i'd play them. In retrospect, I wish I had kept them. Some of them are really expensive to buy now. I've always kept an eye on the Vita, especially after playing a friends, because I always wanted one. I lucked out getting an OLED one for free that was pretty much in mint condition. I've been moving and working and just haven't really had the time to sink into playing it until recently.

And it's playing it and seeing what it could have/should have been that makes me so angry. Even though it's approaching a decade of existence; if Sony had played their cards right, it could still have new quality games coming out for it and be a moneymaker for them. Granted, it would have taken a hit with the Switch coming out. Someone made a good point that it partially failed because of the rise of mobile gaming. ("Who wants to carry yet another device?" (paraphrasing)) and I totally agree with them. I guess it's a bit easier for me because I just keep it in my purse at almost all times. But I can see how not everyone can do that. I try mobile games on my Galaxy but I just find most of them to not be worth my time. Whether riddled with microtransactions or bad touch controls, just ugh. I think the only one I play is Pokemon Go now. They have JRPGs but i'd rather just use my DS or something.

I think there's still a play for handhelds. It'll just be dominated by the Switch. But I guess any dedicated handheld that would come out now would probably be a very niche thing. I dunno. It just chaps my caboose because I feel like the Vita was done dirty. There's still so many games I wanna get but money lol.
 
Clintizzle said:
Not bad mouthing Nintendo here but the Switch is only successful because Sony left the handheld space. Sony is the only company capable of making a legit handheld gaming device and with them out of the picture Nintendo capitalised.
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Were the PSP and Vita ever a threat to Nintendo? Sony never had any dominance in the handheld space that I can recall. Plus the fact that Sony refuses to support anything other than thier main console at any given time.
 
GardenOfAbbylon said:
I'm sitting here at the college, just passing time playing Killzone on my PS Vita.

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And I'm reminded of how good of tech it was in 2013, and even still now to an extent. Sony just had to be greedy with 1. Proprietary memory. 2. Not going with a common way to charge the system. 3. Poor first party support and pushing out what could have been big hits before they were finished just so they could impress shareholders faster.

It had such potential, and now it's doomed to have the only new releases be visual novels or retro platformers.

It just really chaps my caboose and i wanted to bitch about it ^_^

Did i forget anything about why it failed?
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I am actually surprised it failed the way it did. It had so much potential and was probably one of the best handhelds I have ever played.
 
Clintizzle said:
Not bad mouthing Nintendo here but the Switch is only successful because Sony left the handheld space. Sony is the only company capable of making a legit handheld gaming device and with them out of the picture Nintendo capitalised.
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Hey the Vita was great(well had great potential) but this is just wrong

The Switch is arguably one of the best hardware devices in Videogame history, the Switch concept is basically what Nintendo where always destined to get to and once they did they where obviously going to put up historic numbers

Combined with arguably Nintendos strongest slate of games from a consumer perspective ever, and an amazing launch game that pretty much ticked every box of nearly every gamer it was marketed to, Sony where wise to leave that space because whatever they made next would have made the Vitas sales look as successful as the PS2!

Basically it's the inverse of what Nintendo did by leaving the dedicated console space after the Wii U why bother competing when Sony will always make a new box that is gonna have a slate of killer 1st party games and will market them incredibly well too

In many ways Sony and Nintendo keep each other in check

On topic the Vita is the best way to play a fuckton of PSone classics whilst just chilling in bed
 
Sorcerer said:
Were the PSP and Vita ever a threat to Nintendo? Sony never had any dominance in the handheld space that I can recall. Plus the fact that Sony refuses to support anything other than thier main console at any given time.
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LarknThe4th said:
Hey the Vita was great(well had great potential) but this is just wrong
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I may have been a bit hyperbolic in that post, haha. Again, I'm not bagging on the Switch, I appreciate what it offers and how successful it is. I guess I was just trying to say that if Sony didn't half-ass their handhelds, they were capable of creating something that would have been a legit switch competitior.
 
Well they did remove the propriety charging port with the second revision of the Vita (pch-2000). It used a standard micro usb to charge.

As nice as the OLED screen looks on the first model I still prefer playing on my Vita 2000, even with the LCD screen. First model feels really heavy and bulky compared to the sleeker 2000 revision.
(I have the both an original 1000 model and the revised 2000 model.)
 
smbu2000 said:
Well they did remove the propriety charging port with the second revision of the Vita (pch-2000). It used a standard micro usb to charge.

As nice as the OLED screen looks on the first model I still prefer playing on my Vita 2000, even with the LCD screen. First model feels really heavy and bulky compared to the sleeker 2000 revision.
(I have the both an original 1000 model and the revised 2000 model.)
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I had no idea they got rid of the proprietary charging port. That's awesome.
 
The real fuck you Sony should be reserved for what they are doing now.
The assholes completly stopped running game sales leaving everyone with no way to buy games at sane prices
 
OP title is how im feeling right now after I just had Sony rep disconnect me for saying I think Sony isn't a customer friendly company in how they handle digital refunds (which is to refuse everything).
 
You think that's bad? Imagine dropping $1500 on last year's flagship Sony quantum dot LCD TV only to find out it won't support HDMI 2.1 because it was disabled in firmware. Yup, SONY wants me to just go buy another one. Same internals...
 
GardenOfAbbylon said:
I'm sitting here at the college, just passing time playing Killzone on my PS Vita.

j1Q6bJj.jpg


And I'm reminded of how good of tech it was in 2013, and even still now to an extent. Sony just had to be greedy with 1. Proprietary memory. 2. Not going with a common way to charge the system. 3. Poor first party support and pushing out what could have been big hits before they were finished just so they could impress shareholders faster.

It had such potential, and now it's doomed to have the only new releases be visual novels or retro platformers.

It just really chaps my caboose and i wanted to bitch about it ^_^

Did i forget anything about why it failed?
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Sony tried, people passed, its people fault, they did a excellent first year of first party support
 
GardenOfAbbylon said:
I'm sitting here at the college, just passing time playing Killzone on my PS Vita.

j1Q6bJj.jpg


And I'm reminded of how good of tech it was in 2013, and even still now to an extent. Sony just had to be greedy with 1. Proprietary memory. 2. Not going with a common way to charge the system. 3. Poor first party support and pushing out what could have been big hits before they were finished just so they could impress shareholders faster.

It had such potential, and now it's doomed to have the only new releases be visual novels or retro platformers.

It just really chaps my caboose and i wanted to bitch about it ^_^

Did i forget anything about why it failed?
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I still have fun with my Vita. And Killzone for Vita on Hard where u actually have to use all of it's mechanics is the best Killzone game BY FAR.
 
GardenOfAbbylon said:
I had no idea they got rid of the proprietary charging port. That's awesome.
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They also made it usable without having to buy a memory card, by including 1GB of storage on the Vita 2000. At least you could save your games on the system without spending extra. After you insert a memory card in it though the 1GB is unusable.
On the original Vita, you needed to buy a memory card to save anything.
 
Clintizzle said:
Not bad mouthing Nintendo here but the Switch is only successful because Sony left the handheld space. Sony is the only company capable of making a legit handheld gaming device and with them out of the picture Nintendo capitalised.
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Nintendo dominated handheld long before Sony pulled out of the space.

Since Game Boy, in fact. Every other competitor in portables since then, Nintendo just swatted away like a gnat. A few systems were lucky enough to carve out a little space and survive for a while, like Game Gear and PSP, but it's always been just a matter of time and a bloodbath in sales.
 
This will rustle some jimmies but I sold my Vita for two reasons:
1. It's lack of power made it's library very underwhelming to me. That and not being supported all the way showed.
2. The lack of buttons and that annoying back touchpad really were overkill for me.

I sold it a while ago and bought a Switch which not only fixes my issues with the Vita but goes beyond my expectations constantly.
 
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TeezzyD said:
Might be awesome to upgrade from my PSP finally next year
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Definitely 👍 it's such a great piece of hardware ahead of its time and designed by Cerny but sad that Sony fucked up with the ridiculous expensive memory cards I recommend you the slim version it has a 1 GB memory integrated
 
DonJimbo said:
Definitely 👍 it's such a great piece of hardware ahead of its time and designed by Cerny but sad that Sony fucked up with the ridiculous expensive memory cards I recommend you the slim version it has a 1 GB memory integrated
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I know for my PSP I resorted to like a mini SD conversion deal. I may do the same. Jw if it plays dreamcast
 
DonJimbo said:
For PS2 games you can buy the hd remasters
Maybe you can emulate Dreamcast with homebrew but I'm not an expert in cfw
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Yeah I'm not the type to game away from home so its sorta a bucket list get for me. My PC can emulate pretty much anything (RTX 2070) and I have more physical PS2 games than I know what to do with. One day though lol
 
TeezzyD said:
Yeah I'm not the type to game away from home so its sorta a bucket list get for me. My PC can emulate pretty much anything (RTX 2070) and I have more physical PS2 games than I know what to do with. One day though lol
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That's alright vita for vita games and pc for emulation
Even I dont care what you want to do cheers homie 👍
 
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