The Vita is pretty lacking in game sellers here in the states at least, tonight at Sony's conference the handheld really needed a ton of games and got little to hardly enough.
There is still the rest of the week and TGS, but Vita maybe on PS4 life support by 2015.
They mentioned at one point they had over a hundred new games coming out for the Vita...
But my question is how many of them are AAA vita games? (Not indies, ports of PS1 or PSP games.)
And furthermore how many of them are even getting a physical version?
I am curious about the Vita. I wonder if they're ever going to come out with a basketball game for it? If they did I might have to buy a vita. The graphics are nice for a handheld system.
Wolfhyrr,
the Vita does play digital PSP games. Which if you bought PSP games digitally then those carry over to Vita without issue (or downloaded them as part of PS+). But if you bought physical PSP games then you can't play them on Vita. (Vita has no UMD drive.)
There are good games for the system...
Remakes/Ports:
- Persona 4: Golden
- Metal Gear Solid HD collection
- Final Fantasy X Remastered
- Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention
Plus a litany of mobile titles (like Plants vs Zombies) and indie games (like Terraria). So there most certainly are games to play.
The problem is that the Vita needs a lot more great games to make people want to own one. Which in turn will cause developers to want to make games for it. I mean the system has some pretty good specifications and that OLED screen is gorgeous for playing games but it just needs more games.
I had heard that the only booth at E3 without a waitlist was the Vita booth. Stuff like that makes me think that it might really be dead. Sony's better at console gaming anyway, far as I'm concerned.
The Vita is a great RPG/Indie machine. Possibly the best one. It hasn't sold enough to get huge AAA games made for it. I'll wager most of us who play our Vitas regularly wouldn't even play most AAA games if they came to Vita. That isn't the systems place..
If it isn't dead it'll be very soon. As I first read about PS Vita I was really hyped since the quality would be really great for a low price. After that I lost track of the Vita process, just to notice a year or so later, the handheld was already released.
I never really heard big news about the device, nor games.
The PS Vita came out too late I guess, now the whole handheld hype has blown over (period of Gameboy SP and DS and the PSP was booming with games and great news and releases).
If the Vita could also make calls, and text like a smartphone, and allow people to play games from different platforms like Google Android, and Linux, the Vita will be more popular.
Changing the Price of the Vita at $99-149 would also make more people get it. Making the Vita $99-149 would make it more competitively price with the Nintendo 2DS which can be bought for $99-115 online.
Most people who just want to play games for the Vita will most likely get the $99 Vita TV because it is hundreds of dollars cheaper, and playing games on a TV is more fun because of a bigger picture, and better sound. Plus, the Vita TV gets it's power from the wall, so it does not need to be charged like the Vita which uses a battery which needs to be charged.
I bet the Vita TV could also run faster if Sony release a update to increase the speed of the Vita TV's CPU, Video chip and RAM because the Vita TV does not need to save power because it runs off your home's power like the Ouya which uses a Nvidia Tegra 3 overclocked to 1.6 GHz and has a small cooling fan for higher overclocks instead of the standard 1.3 GHz speed on battery powered smartphones/tablets like the Nexus 7 2012 which is cooled passively with the surrounding air in the room.
The Vita TV also uses HDMI, so you can use a game recorder DVR hooked up to a computer to record gameplay from the HDMI cable on the Vita.
