You're not sure because you haven’t spent time with one let alone touch one. 

The bolded is nothing but speculation, you can't prove. 

The underlined, you can leave your trollish comments at the door. It's isn't needed.

75 million is a smashing success when you consider it's their first handheld, Nintendo could have sold twice as many DS and still wouldn't change that fact. Because its success isn't measured on how well it does compared to something else.

vita has no competition, it will not go out of the market like the dreamcast, the dreamcast had direct competitors, unlike the vita

the vita can't do worse than how it's doing now

it can only get better

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http://pspslimhacks.com/easy-chickhen-custom-firmware-installer-without-pandora/

http://psp.scenebeta.com/tutorial/how-hack-psp-slim

Different ways to hack the system, most of them are pretty easy compare to other consoles/handhelds

Edit: note that this is actual hacking (to manipulate firmwares and other stuff), not homebrew or pirated software which is far more easier

Ok this made alot of sense to me you should be hired by sony lol, having a vita your psp statement made the most sense, the fact that i had to sell off all my games as i could no longer use them made me think what was the point of buying them and being loyal in the first place

Including failure rates right? I've heard stories of them setting on fire :P

I joke. But seriously the_dengle I think your being a tad over dramatic here. Yeah vita has had killer apps but we knew none of them were mainstream. Besides gran turismo sony don't have stuff that make an impact on the level nintendo's franchises do.

Now bear with me here, I don't think assassin's creed and call of duty will sell as much as people think. I think they will sell enough to put vita on the map though. If those two completely flop we'll talk. Until then bringing up franchises anybody outside sony fanboys knew were going to flop is pointless. It is very rare for a widely established system brand to fail. Thats not to say it can't happen. But the chances of it happening are low. Very low.

And like I said before, sony are so stubborn they won't let it happen. Unless reatilers start to drop it it will sell well in the end.

You've totally misinterpreted what I'm saying.

I'm agreeing with you, "a stripped down console game", is exactly what Uncharted on the Vita is. It's basically Uncharted - but portable. This is not what people want in a portable imo. If people wanted to play Uncharted, they'd play it on a PS3. This is the same trap the PSP fell into, I just don't think people want the same exeperience a PS3 provides, only on a more cut down level. Just like with the PSP I don't think people wanted a cut down PS2 experience.

Most people actually play portables at home anyway when it comes down to it and want to play something a little different without dragging out the PS3 or Xbox or whatever and play something quirky and unique that you don't get on a console.

Maybe I'm talking too much from what I personally want, but I saw it was a running theme on the PSP, you with games near the end like Resistance....who the hell wants to play Resistance on a PSP?

I very much enjoyed the RPGs on the PSP, they were a bit different to anything available on the PS2 at the time, have character too.

Stuff like Patapon was good, but that novelty factor is wearing a bit thin and there's only so much of that "new" type of game people can take in the vein of Echochrome and stardust hd and whatnot. The Vita needs new IPs that aren't on a console, no silly spin offs, you games that are actually FOR the Vita, but who's going to risk making them?

@fillet the same can be said about mario on the 3ds, or zelda on the 3ds

why play it on the 3ds if you can play it on the wii

why play kingdom hearts and resident evil on the 3ds if you can play it on a home console?

Because that's the clue.

When Nintendo makes a console like game like Mario 3D and Zelda, they use their main teams for them. The same team that made Twilight Princess made Spirit Tracks. Instead of them being watered down and developed by B-teams, the console-like games on Nintendo handhelds are always full-on entries in their respective series. They are their 'own' games. It has been so since GameBoy.

People notice this, it pays off.

And Revelations did it very smart, while it is a console game, dividing it in short 'episodes' was a smart thing to do to get handheld-like short spurts of gameplay. But still it only sold 600k, most likely because of the different demographic on portables.

LOL. Just like the Xbox 360 and PS3 weren't competing with Wii, right?

Vita has a direct competitor. It's called the 3DS.

S.Peelman has said something I wasn't going to say, but has hit the nail on the head. I'll openly admit I'm not 100% on this and I've only put a few hours into the top 3DS games as I don't own one. But Super Mario 3D land for example, it feels like it's own game. It feels like it belongs on the 3DS and not a port of a console game as well as having character. I'm sure I'm in the minority but I feel that even New Super Mario Bros Wii is a better game on the 3DS and where it belongs.

I agree with your point somewhat about Resident Evil on the 3DS, only played that for half and hour and it felt a bit like I was playing a PSP game, no soul.

The Vita needs new and fresh interesting stuff. But not the novelty stuff, that came on the PSP way too late in it's life. Just remember what the PSP had when it came out, I got it day 1 and what I bought was Ridge Racer, Mercury and Virtua Tennis. All those games felt like they were from a console, except for Mercury but even that didn't have the X factor.

The same is happening with the Vita. I don't want Assasins Credd or Call of Duty. I want fresh personality and character. It's harder for Sony because their characters are mostly just "bad ass" as a replacement for personality.

One thing that would be a sure fire winner imo is some games that DO use old IPs but ones that haven't been used for a long time or done over and over again. I'm thinking a new Jak and Daxter game, but not some crappy watered down rubbish like just Daxter starring in his own game but a full on continuation of the genuine original trilogy with some proper money spent on it.

Ideally new IPs would be better but that's very unlikely in a big budget sense.

This is the sort of thing that would make me and I believe a lot of people in my mindset give the Vita a go. In any case, Sony need to take some proper risks if they are to make a success of it at this point in my opinion and for it not to end up like the PSP with drab and boring game after drab and boring game with maybe 1-2 games a year that people think are great.

I'm thinking the recent character reveal of Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale sums up the problem, Sony don't have the go-to characters that are familiar and give them a free ticket. People LIKE nintendo characters, they don't think they're "cool". They just genuinely like them. With characters that are just "cool", you're not going to get the hearts and minds of the buyer. The one exception to this is Jak and Daxter. I would have said the same thing for Ratchet and Clank but they've been exploited too much the past few years and lost the love of people like myself at least....On the other hand Quark is a good character and likeable, he's far from cool and quite fresh.

I know on forums like this everyone loves Kratos and Nathan Drake, but in the physical world, I don't think that is the case at all and that's where the buyers are.

...Sorry kinda just thinking as I type but I spose they are my thoughts. Not saying I'm 100% right, just a feeling of the situation.