Opinion: 5 things the PS Vita needs to be revived
The Vita is a great bit of tech, but it is severely under-performing at the moment, which isn’t fair. So here’s my opinions on what will revive it.
As of now, Vita owners are hipsters. We got it before it became popular.
Worldwide Price drop
This one is obvious I know, but as I’ve reported at hgoel.info , The Vita price drop in Japan caused sellouts across the whole country which evolved into the Vita selling 50,000 more units in a week. An increase of 600%.
As of yet 4.2 million PS Vitas have been sold, and if the pricedrop were to be localised throughout the world (and received as well as it was) those 4.2 million units would grow into 25 million. Apart from on here I only know 1 person who has a PS Vita and I’d love to have a 4 player PlayStation All Stars match with my mates.
A comment on one of my articles on hgoel’s site, said that this may be a test to see how the public react to the Vitas price drop. Any sane person would not pass off an opportunity to sell 20 million more of their product, especially if they’re in debt!
more games
I know, I know. It’s also a no brainer. I would LOVE to have more than 5 (full) games on my Vita, I can’t complain at the moment, now that I have bought Need for Speed : MW (For a cool £25) I have picked it up again, but before I was not playing it as much. I was getting bored on my UNO exploit, but I have stayed on 2.02 (and will be) because I still play Final Fantasy 8 every now and then, but that is what I’m talking about, I’m playing a game on my Vita that isn’t a Vita game. The Vita is in desparate need of support from third-party companies. Any well known games company needs to take that risk and make a game for it, and open the gate for other companies to make games for it, I believe that the game that will revive it will be either a game from the Gran Theft Auto franchise or a true final fantasy game (not a hd remake). I’m not all moany groany though, don’t get me wrong there were some great games made for the console recently, games like Assassins Creed : Liberation, Playstation All Stars, Sly Cooper and Need For Speed.
When Vita was released, it really looked to have a great future ahead of it. With release games like Uncharted, Gravity Rush, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Wipeout and many other great titles (There was a total of 26 games available on launch). But after that it seemed to decrease immensely. Currently the only future Vita release I know about of the top of my head is Killzone: Mercenary and Tearaway
I NEED TEH GAMEZ
More free apps & minigames
The best thing about Android and iOS, is the massive catalogue of free games. Even if they are riddled with adverts, it’s a small fee to remove them (It’ll be a bit more because its Sony, but that’s not the point.) There aren’t many apps out there on my EU app store, 20 max? If you didn’t have any PSN credit or money to buy a Vita game and are tired of all your games it will become a media player with internet. But there is salvation! Hgoel has created a game hub for you to go on through the internet and the games on there are pretty fun, you should visit it (after reading this of course 😉 ). The best game that went free was Jetpack Joyride. That costs money now :(.
I am definitely not saying that the console should turn into a mini-game device, not at all. It is always good to have games on there to pass time though.
ps4 interaction
This is a definite reviving card for the Vita, all of those Playstationheads who don’t currently have a Vita will want one to play their PS4 games anywhere (well not on the moon, that’s just stupid), but unfortunately the PS4 owners will probably just see it as a (very) expensive accessory purely because of the remote play, but who wouldn’t want to play Watch_Dogs anywhere? (If you actually want that game) The Vita may not just be used for remote play though, it could have dual interaction where the vita is a constant map. or when you want to hack something on Watch_Dogs, you have to play a little mini-game to get into something(not all the time obviously, that’ll be annoying).
Meaningful Updates
This may sound a tad strange. But hear me out. Like I’ve said the Vita is awesome, and with the updates incoming (however slow they are) they can only improve the console.
An update that will be a significant selling point for the vita would be support for PS2 games, and also possibly true remote play support for PS3.
There’s only 2 games compatible with remote play at the moment, right?
Although Sony are slowly abandning the PS3 it is not too late to integrate remote play for future PS3 games. I would go mental if I could play The Last Of Us on my Vita.
I am a certified Playstationhead. I have owned every Playstation (not the PocketStation and PSX) that has been released, and loved them all. I will be getting the PS4.
ooh n didnet us it in a while but sumtime u can play music n play certain games i guess if u was to even be able to do that with the music unlimited app an more game an stuff would be cool…
Regarding the games – Atelier Totori Plus (translated!) just became available at the PSN.
Has anyone else made Far Cry 3 remoteplay? I did, and am thinking about making a tutorial for a 3.55 kmeaw ps3. I didn’t see anyone else doing it, the Far Cry 3 fix is the XMB version, and you can’t use multiman to run it. Anyone request I make a video?
Well allot psp owners bought a PSP Vita assuming they could gain access to there PSP games and PSP Vita library.
But neather PSP games nor Vita games came …
If after this time, only 5 games are remembered, this is a failed console. They need a bunch of triple A games, I recently walked through the PSP vita games, and all i see is android type of games. Android is taking up a part of the market, but shooters, rpg’s and GTA-like games are best played on a console (stupid touchscreens). Where are they sony ?
I would buy a PSVita cause I travel ~3 hours a day, but there are no games to keep me busy that long …
lists of games that can be used for cross-play, remote-play, etc.. http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/support/games/detail/item513385/PS3-games-compatible-with-PS-Vita/
I have a real concern for the future of my PS VITA. That’s because i live in a developing aka 3rd world country where Internet is really slow and costly and downloading is possible only by torrent which allows resume downloading. Slow interrupted internet and power-cuts makes downloading especially from PSN impossible. Right now i have six PS Vita game cards which i bought some time ago and now new Game Cards are not available in my country at all, even after searching all over the internet. Of course i can buy it from a developed country but shipping charge alone cost as much as the game. I’ll have to change either my console or my country.
vita won 3DS last week in JAPAN!
I cannot see what benefit there is in console wars.
Suddenly,an adapter for Vita’s memory slot got released which offers 2 micro SD slots (which would mean 128 gigs of storage,possibly)
Oh well,wishful thinking.
1. good games
2.remote play
3.good games
4.remote play
5.good games
yup, that should do it
Some apps that people hacked their PSPs for? 😉 Sony don’t learn that we want them. 🙄
WE NEED BETTER REMOTE PLAY COMPATIBILITY….DERP