Survey: Gamers are overall satisfied with their Vita
French website psvitagen started an interesting survey where they asked their members if they were satisfied with the purchase of their PS Vita.
The results are not as bad as one might expect, with a bit more than 60% of the voters being “satisfied” with their purchases, and a bit less than 30% being not satisfied (and, yeah, about 10% without any specific opinion on the subject). Unsurprisingly, most of the commenters stated that the Vita is a terrific device with awesome hardware and a huge potential, but is under used for now, and especially lacks a strong game library so far.
The lack of games and support from third party publishers is clearly to blame, but also some weird focus from Sony on non gaming activities such as the Facebook or youtube apps. The issue is not that these apps are here, the issue is that (and I’ve mentioned it before) they feel like a wasted effort when all that would suffice is a decent web browser with html5 and flash support. When your mobile phone supports all the Social network and video playback functionality in the world, out of the box, you automatically expect the best mobile device in the world to support it. “Basic functionality: check. Now move on to the cool games”. Sadly, Sony is wasting efforts on half-*** non gaming functionality (which should have been here from the start) instead of focusing on bringing more games.
Of course, I am exaggerating the situation for the sake of the argument, and the game library is slowly but surely growing on the Vita. It is however sad to me to see that the Vita is following the footsteps of its older sister, with such a slow progression in sales that might be lethal for the product. If anything, this is proving to me that piracy is not really what killed the psp. Stronger competition is what is happening here… I still believe that in a few years, the vita will be a great purchase with a great library, but this is assuming Sony starts supporting it a bit harder.
How about you guys, are you happy with your Vita purchase, or thinking of selling it? What are the games you like the most so far?
Love my vita but the software library is killing it for me. I hope they’ll integrate the vita into the next gen playstation console just like the new wii u controller that”ll boost sales and the library will catch up sooner or later
I know that I’m pretty satisfied with mine. As you’ve said, I just wish they’d update the browser to support HTML5 and flash… instead of wasting time and effort releasing all these stupid, separate apps.
They don’t want to add in the html5 because they fear it’ll be breached and people will achieve a jailbreak through it
ok I was going to point out how Sony nor anyone has ever said that but im going to give you the benefit of the doubt
so now show me some source and prove your statement
whats that ? you cant ?…… yea thought so :3
As owner of Vita, yeah I’m satisfied with it in terms of Hardware capabilities and still the games are decent, I’m hoping for more games to be released this year.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss was really good.
The number of serious games for the Vita can be counted on one hand. That is a problem. Assassins Creed and Black Ops will hopefully give the Vita new life. There are also rumors of Monster Hunter coming to the Vita. Slowly and surely the library will grow.
not sure about this
I tried Gravity Rush Demo and that game looks better in all ways,
by the way I have Golden Abyss Full version from shop
Well, I’m satisified with it, but I skipped the PSP back then…so I’m playing a tonshit of PSP games on it.
As for PS Vita games, UMvC3, and a few others keep me busy while I’m waiting for P4 The Golden.
I’m sure the Vita will get a boost of sales along with the PSP in japan, when the new AKB48 comes out…because, you know… It’s AKB48. Pretty much the same situation that happens with Monhun (aka; Monster Hunter).
Those people are stupid, the vita has a lot of potential that isn’t even tapped yet and there satisfied. wait in the upcoming years its gonna be great if they get a lot of dev support and great apps in the store!
UMvC3 and Uncharted were good but until Sly 4 and Assasins Creed come out it’s going to be an expensive mp3 player for me.
yeah games are definitely very important for PS vita right now, But one more important factor is hacking and exploiting of Vita. I am not saying ISO support( though I confess that I would love to see that) But I would love to see homebrew and emulators running on Vita. I believe that half of the people out there are waiting for the Vita to be hacked before they buy one. Then once this Vita is completely exploited Sony could release Vita V2.0 and everyone would be happy.
I’m one of those people waiting for it to be fully hacked before I buy it. I’m content with my PSPs for now.
yeah I have a vita, But my friend is still on PSP, he says the exact same reason. He bought galaxy nexus 7 instead. I had to wait for almost an year before psp 3000 was open for homebrew when I bought it, I guess it will take almost the same time.
I wish they would hurry up and release PSOne Classics
To get it to really sell, they should work hard on bringing PS2 classics to the device too.
GTA San Andreas on the device anyone?
Second!! Ive owned every gen psp except for the 9000 model. I currently have a go to help me play y psp games such as crisis core and my final fantasy psx games. I have a ton of und’s that are starting to collect dust. Fortunately I have created back ups to play on my go which I would like to see on the psv.
It’s amazing that they are taking so long and making such a big deal out of a feature that:
1. Should have been built in from the start
2. The PSP has supported for years
3. Is technically possible already as the guy with the kernel exploit proved.
PS2 support will probably take years.
i like my vita so far. I owned a psp 1000,2000, and a go. I am expecting the ps3 and vitas remote play to compete with the wiiU. Sony can hopefully make remote play even way better with the ps4.But if they dont get their act together with the functionality now it will never happen. They have been promising the world with remote play and delivering nothing, then blaming developers for not using it, which i think is horse *** (excuse my french), because it should be native to the hardware and ecosystem/OS, because thats they have always sold it in advertising in my eyes. if sony just delivered what they promise instead of creating expensive propriatery formats, maybe vita would have a much higher attachment rate to ps3.
to wololo, your comment about the web browser and html5 was very interesting to me, what would be the reason for sony not to have a html5 browser?it seems like a much more elegant solution to many of the vitas flaws. Couldnt they have farmed this out to opera or something?
I got my PSVITA on may, and so far the only game i enjoy and really believe its great on the device is Gravity Rush, the hardware is great, but just as you mentioned on the article, it’s under used, i think it has potential, it just need a push from Sony to get more great games on it, i really hope this happens on the near future.
BTW im waiting for All Stars Battle Royale and COD: Black Ops Declassified :3
I liked my psvita so much, that I changed my 3ds for another psvita
The Vita has so much potential, but I feel like no one is taking it seriously. I was at an independent video game store that had every console you could think of: from NES to PS3, Wii, 3DS, etc. It was just missing a Vita section. I got my Vita the second day it came out and I still only have one game, Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus and a PSP game. I’m not interested in the other games (except Ultimate MvC, but I’d rather get Street Fighter X Tekken). I hope we’ll get a lot of announcements tomorrow at Gamescom. If it is a let down like E3, than I think it really will be the “last nail in the Vita’s coffin” (I’m sick of seeing this being said).
Not satisfied, All handheld devices which have been for the Mature Audience have been disappointments. Gamegear was my first, PSP was my second, now PS Vita. I only own it because I keep thinking with such massive hardware capability there will be some great games developed or ported over.
No one is willing to develop the games that I enjoy for it. Sure if you like Little big planet, Stealth 3rd person “assassin creed & MSG” or Football I am sure it is great.
I just want to see stuff like Battlefield 3, Left 4 Dead, Saints Row, NBA2k, Batman, Fallout, ect..
There are a lot of B titles coming out when we need AAA games.
sony doesnt make the decisions on what games come out for their system. the 3rd party devs have to decide if they want to make games for it. but no one wants to because of pirates like you people and their scared they wont make money so they go towards family friendly companies like nintendo.
also sony makes security more focused instead of software improvements also because of you pirates. id be happy only with homebrews so i can get my emulatirs.
why do people steal games only to kill the 3rd party developers? sonys the greedy one leave the game makers alone.
Well that’s a lie to begin with and guess what?
There’s no piracy on the Vita, so right now, would be the golden age to release a game on the unit if your theory has any truth to it.
The Vita right now, should make the developers flock to it & make that money, be one of the firsts to bring console experiences on the go. Developers could build their name right now in the gaming market.
But people do need to realize that games for the Vita, to be of quality and better than PSP quality, will take more time to develop and create just like they do on a home console.(Rushed games turn out like MK, a great game but the characters have no detail or animation…really put me off from buying any other games)
As of now, $ony should be cattering to the software on their unit, give a little, even if it’s ONCE a month…anything, would be great.
I hate my Vita, still play my 3DS more.
Still with my PSP, but I might get a Vita soon enough. Only when there’s more game published for Vita.
I’m playing with my psp more than my psv. Tons of good old/new games to play again
I’m not satisfied and also not unsatisfied. The device itself is very good.
Like everyone but Sony knows is the main disappointment the lack of a good browser. It’s seems to be so simple…
* Why is the browser so ugly?
* Why isn’t there a DLNA client?
* Why can’t I simple put my media on it and play it?
* Why are not multiple user accounts are allowed?
* Why is the Twitter app so good and the Facebook app so bad?
* Why is the map app so bad?
* Why does Skype drain the battery so fast?
* Why do Youtube links not open the Youtube app?
I still have some hopes in 3rd party dev’s through the SDK. I think a lot can be done through the SDK. I for instance would pay for a good browser (hopefully Opera), a geocaching app, a good e-mail client… For me the Vita could be a good Smartphone replacement.
Awesome points. The lack of DLNA client nowadays is really a bad bad move, especially when there are so few codecs supported by the media player itself.
I only got Vita because frend make me a superdeal Vita for 100€.. 😀 I took it only because i tought that would be hacked fast and i saw milions of games on net…But wasn’t even thinking that this lovely handheld is from sony.. 🙂 I hope the give up patching exploits..to make better console sale… 😀
Sony focusing more on security than software, smh
Early adopters should be more than “satisfied” if you want to sell tens of millions at that price range.
I’m waiting for a Vita slim.
Vita Phat
Vita Slim
Vita Go
Vita Street
lol
you forgot the Brite! 🙂
Vita XL
I really hope you like waiting then. A ps vita slim won’t come out for a while. The slim version of the psp came out 3 years after the phat. If you want fast physical upgrades you should go with Nintendo. They *** out a new ds every six months to a year it seems.
tu n’es pas satisfait alors? :O
Indeed 🙂
Haha je suis pas le seul francais sur le forum! 😛
aparament non XD
Bonjour de Montreal QC!
Imagine if the psvita was owned by nintendo. *dreaming of playing zelda on vita*
Well if the N64 works on VHBL you might be able to do so!
Exactly what I thought would happen has been happening with the Vita. So I’m happy to have the device just to have it(plus I can play MK on the go, YAY!) but I tell everyone else to wait it out, not only for it to grow and start being better supported (all around) but no doubt that when that time finally does come, $ony will be ready for a revision. No need to have a device with a battery that slowly dies with or without use that can’t be easily replaced without opening the device just to play a few games that MIGHT! be a little better than on the PSP.
the vitas already slim. so basically you just want an android phone?
my vita gettin much love i gots most of the accessory, lots of third party games sorry sony but your first party games sux imo.
plus once i start hacking my vita i get to play pokemon on a bright oled screen.
im selling my 3ds unless nintendo turns it into a vita hardware wise. people who ask for vitas price drop cause the 3ds got one dont know the hardware involved between the two.
Satisfied with my Hacked Vita, you can do so much stuff with it. Sony just needs to pull their head out of their ***’s and deliver on the ps vita. E3 showed how much Sony cared about the vita, by only showing 2 min’s of it and showing almost 15 min’s on Wonder Book???tf. yea HMTL5 and Flash is getting argued by consumers because they all want to watch *** on a gaming console. common sense.
The thing that is killing me is that the vita supports SOME psp games. I’ve bought a couple of them on the ps store and the only one I can play is MHFU… As for vita games, well I starting a bit to get tired of waiting for the good one to come out, like playstation all-star battle royale and stuff. The good games announced are all coming out around christmas or somewhere next year.. Sadly my vita have been sleeping on my desk for at least a month, I’m wating 1.80 for the release of VHBL and only then I’ll be able to play emulator games while waiting for the good one to come out.
Well I’m satisfied of the quality of my console so far the thing that *** me off is that as you said, it lack the most basic functions such as decent html 5 and flash support! I’m not really worried about the lack of good games for it since the only game I want for my Vita is LBPV. ^^
Vita – Hardware Excellent
$ony $upport via software – ***
The only concern $ony has is security – they don’t differentiate between Homebrew (us)& Piracy (dorks).
If they don’t wake up to reality soon, this will be the last $ony portable games machine.
All it would take right now is for a quality Android manufacturer to bring out a 5/6 inch tablet with some decent hardware controls and $ony will be dead in the water.
I Hope I’m wrong by the way, I love my Vita.
I’m not satisfied. Lack of game, lack of functionnality… it’s my last Sony’s product. definetly 🙁
I love my Vita
Gravity Rush: Is amazing, Graphics are cell shaded, Took 4 days to complete with about 4 hours a day. The side missions are tough but not necessary. IF you dont attempt them the game is harder as you need to obtain crystals to upgrade you attacks and hp.
Wipeout: Amazing, the very last race is a bit tricky. Graphics are amazing and cross play helps. IF you purchase the add-ons from the store you have well over 40 hours of game play on the vita.
Modnation:…..I cant say much….Bad gameplay and lack of content…Draw distance is very bad. you can see the track generated as you race. Track design lags a bit
Rayman Origins: Very good game, 15 hours completion first time round with no Time trials. The trials are very hard and the read touch panel provides no use except zooming in and out which I did not do.
Uncharted: Honestly…Im not a fan of any of the games due to the combat. The storyline and Graphics are amazing and the exploring is great.
Waiting patiently for Little Big Planet and disappointed that Sony have pushed the All-Stars Battle Royale game back a month. Still November release isn’t bad for this years seasonal game.
We want more and better games!!!
Take a look at the recent Gamescom announcements then.
I’m satisfied now that I can play homebrew on it.
but before I really thought that I had waisted my money.and for some reason I thought the app market would be more androidish…if you know what I mean.
whats funny is……i can go to Walmart…. read their little demo flier that looks like a spiral notebook shaped like a vita………open it……and it says……..supports full HTML5…….what tha heck….this was printed by sony not walmart i looked