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Rare has been dead for a few years now, having all those cancelled projects must have been frustrating.

While vita is almost dead and bleeding money , Kaz Hirai said PS4 hardware is already profitable.

And that not even one year in.

Good going.

Mikekelly - 22 May 2014 09:34 PM

OH yea, more of this stuff.

OK, one website announced future 2013 adventure game releases, VITA had six, 3DS none. at the time in 2012 I was all about the 3DS (Resident Evil, yea!) But - the six games sounded good (compared to zero) and for $139 dollars I had a VITA.

I have 68 games on the VITA, 22 of them adventure titles to include Broken Sword, Walking Dead 1 and 2, Dangaronda, Virtue’s Last Reward, to name a few.

I’ve even seen sales where used VITAs go for $119 dollars.

I paid $695 for my ipad mini and it is great, I’d pay it again.

 

Vita will loose if people like you who love the portable so much are gonna wait for price drops. You should have been early adopter rather than waiting for 20 games This philosophy is helping you but hurting Sony and thats why Vita is dead.

Tablets are BIG competition and people can get more value out of cheap games on it than cart based games on Vita.
And even for hardcore Vita doesnt offer much.

Its really bad to see Tearway getting ignored and underperforming because its on shit system. Didnt even hit million yet??

Games you mentioned from BS to VLR are on other systems too so no edge.

They need killer apps that can challenge Tablets.

And its not Dangaronda, for your best AG on vita you are yet to pronounce it right

@tad

It does old ports and Remote play.
Guess thats all it can do now.

Vita is the best for niche title from Japan and indie titles exclusives and ports. Excellent hardware and screen. Gamers that own one seem to be happy because the attach rate is high and indie developers seem to be happy with the sales on the platform.
But that won’t bring big hardware sales. Don’t think anything will do at this point (maybe Minecraft will help a little bit).

Unfortunately, portable market was taken over by the tablets. Even 3DS with a killer line-up is struggling in comparison to the DS.

For me, Vita’s library is more than enough to have justified the purchase and it still has lots of titles i’m looking forward. Also has the best portable versions of Fifa, Need for Speed and fighters and I prefer to play those games on the go.

I echo that Vita is a killer gaming portable machine. There are more than enough good games on it to justify its purchase. Although I do enjoy playing a few games on my iPad(Hearthstone how I love thee), Vita in general offers “meatier” games that are more suitable for the hardcore gaming audience. Also, there are some types of games that just won’t control good on the iPad due to the lack of sticks and buttons. The virtual controls stuff on the iPad are very clunky and unwieldy for precise timing controls, which is why you won’t see Rayman Legends on the iPad but you will see the excellent endless runner Rayman Jungle Run instead.

If there is one complaint I have about the Vita, it is those ridiculously over priced memory cards. When is Sony going to adopt standards, instead of creating its own proprietary memory cards?

3.5m PS3+4 shipped vs 1.1m 360/XB1 in the same quarter.

That is a large diference! and with the PS4 bombing in Japan so far.

wilco - 31 July 2014 11:30 AM

That is a large diference! and with the PS4 bombing in Japan so far.

Japan is a hopeless market for consoles now. They are obsessed with mobile games there.