Is Sony pulling the plug on the Vita?

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  1. Zeke says:

    I would say that it’s going to stop selling in Dutch territories due to lack of consumer interest. Other territories may follow suit but I think it’ll be a couple of years before Sony stop manufacturing it completely, although of course they’ve slowed production of them.

    To be honest, shilling the Vita as a Remote Play device as they didn’t know what to do with it was a dumb move. I’ve tried Remote Play back when I bought a Slim just to have one on the most recent firmware and even at home it was a bit laggy and had the odd connection problem, mostly I would assume because the wireless set in the Slim isn’t good enough (it is a cost cutting model that is cheaper to make). Using it at the office on breaks via my phone’s WiFi hotspot was painful, too. GTA 5 was basically unplayable. PS Now was alright though, but the game selection was terrible. I think the best use of it was the dual screen ability built into Deus Ex: Human Revolution [Director’s Cut] and that was just sideported from the Wii U – I know this because the aspect ratio is wrong, it’s 4:3 rather than 16:9 so it looks stretched, so even that was a lazy effort, still, very nice to have on the PS3.

    Basically Sony tasked their engineers to make an awesome, versatile piece of hardware. With the original “phat” models sporting the premium build quality and gorgeous OLED screens and front/rear touchpads I believe they succeeded. Every time I pick up my Vita I’m struck by how well it turned out. Sadly, the software isn’t great, and what little there was has been slowly gutted out by Sony in their anti-hacking vendetta. Compare GTA: Chinatown Wars on the PSP to that on the DS, huge difference. Imagine how much better Monster Hunter would have looked. Because the hardware is solid.

    Regardless of all this though, the Vita is awesome. The form factor is great – I’ve had a couple of DSes and the form factor makes it look like a toy plus I still find the dual screen thing gimmicky – despite having a tiny library compared to other consoles some of the titles are just great, cross-platform/port notwithstanding. It’s my goto device for :

    VITA
    * Zen Pinball 2
    * Persona 4 Golden
    * Metal Gear Solid Collection
    * God Of War Collection
    * Need For Speed: Most Wanted
    * Tearaway

    PSP (via TN-V)
    * Fight Night Round 3
    * Burnout Revenge
    * PaRappa The Rapper (lol)
    * Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams & Gottlieb
    * Tetris (PSP Mini)

    SCUMMVM (via TN-V PSP)
    * Beneath A Steel Sky
    * The Curse Of Monkey Island

    PS1 (via TheFloW’s Loader Exploit)
    * Gran Turismo 2
    * Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
    * Smackdown 2
    * Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2

    SNES (via RetroArch Rejuvenate)
    * Super Mario Allstars & World
    * Super Mario Kart
    * Donkey Kong Country
    * Pilotwings

    GENESIS (via RetroArch Rejuvenate or PicoDrive PSP)
    * Golden Axe
    * The Revenge Of Shinobi
    * Micro Machines ’96
    * Sonic 3 & Knuckles

    And that’s not counting a bunch of other stuff I have installed like MAME4ALL. If you would have told me as a kid that I could carry that many great games around with me I would have been amazed. I’m still amazed now, actually.

    So, dead, dying or whatever, I don’t give a ****. It’s still an awesome handheld. And because of the lack of popularity they can be picked up cheap now, especially the original and best OLED models. It was kind of a pain to set up but now it all works great 99% of the time and even with a mere 16GB card I can cram a lot of quality titles on there. I’m happy.

  2. raprul says:

    Psvita is still alive with his device playstation tv

  3. zeron824 says:

    The Vita is quite popular in Japan. Last time I checked, it is selling more than an Xbox One. The Vita isn’t dead. It’s just marketed the wrong way in other nations.

    • Häkkinan says:

      Well. It isn’t that difficult to sell more in Japan. The Vita is being crushed by the 3DS. It’s already dead.

  4. Pumpkinwaffle says:

    Let’s hope things open up on this console quickly so homebrew can give it the love it deserves.

  5. Seth says:

    pretty sure the outrageous security over priced memory cards and poor advertising are the main reasons this seemingly revolutionary handheld flopped so hard. wouldn’t have hurt to have better support and less proprietary stuff either. and i don’t wanna hear that all those things kept piracy not happening which wouod’ve killed it faster because 3ds and pc has pirates and stuff is still developed for those all the time. piracy does NOT kill.

  6. leonalchemist says:

    “I don’t want to take risk developing for the Vita” is what is killing it in the 1st place :/
    If Sony managed to get a Kingdom heart, monster hunter, final fantasy and metal gear solid game at least on PSVita, sales would go to the roof, SIMPLE!

  7. Techradar says:

    Sony has lost in ps3 and ps4 many sales, because playstation tv reeplacement those consoles, for just one reason is less expensive.

  8. Thetechdoc says:

    the vita is on the brink of doom, the grim reaper knocking at its door,whispering ever softly “viiitta…viiiitttaaa” and yet STILL we dont have a proper cfw for the dam thing….the ps4 got a cfw before vita did!! and that rejuvenate *** doesn’t count

  9. mattias says:

    The Vita has been dead for years. This is no surprise :p

  10. Aces says:

    Has to be the worst comment system ever.
    Front page says 64 comments, click on it, now there’s 56 comments?
    How about upgrading to disqus or even Facebook

  11. GottZ says:

    that moment i realise i never bought a psvita

  12. Aces says:

    Eeee

  13. aces says:

    Post to make new posts visible

  14. Memento says:

    R.I.P Vita. I never really did use you. Sad.

  15. Neria says:

    Oh, Sony is gonna pull the plug? Very nice. No useless updates anymore.

    Sony ruined the Vita by removing way too many features and adding almost nothing (they didn’t even fix software design errors) in turn .
    Remember the YouTube App? PSMobile? The Google Maps app?
    The failed attempt to have the Vita used as a native PS3 controller for *every* game, not just selected (***) ones.
    They tried to emulate Nintendo’s GBA ability to hook up the Gamecube to be used as a second screen/controller or just obviously the WiiU.
    Well, they did a job on the PS4, but other then that, the “use handheld accessory A for console accessory B and C” thing just is inconsistent.

  16. nut cracket says:

    No hack = Dead Platform!

    SEE? XD

    PSP is still more popular than VITA… and a lot more hacked !! XD

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