i actually thought vita launched at a respectable price. $250 for a portable ps3.. shows how much i know.. it's not a ps3. I expected games like rrr to get ported in just weeks. some sonyz misinformed me. i'm thinkin sony doesn't have a clue how to stop the games industry from moving to pc and tablets. One other thing. I don't think remote play can save it. These sonyz don't care much for that feature from what i hear.

Even if remote play won't save it, still lets me and those of us who own a PS Vita play PS4 games while lying in bed, taking a crap, at someone else's home(as long as they have wireless,) anywhere with wireless, etc.

Why is he an idiot for stating the obvious? The Vita is dead in the water, and remote play isn't going to change that one bit.

Now, if that $500 PS4 + Vita bundle that's so highly rumoured atm actually becomes a reality, I imagine that could be a game changer. Failing that however.....I don't see much of a future for it.

I have a Vita, but I only got it for two main reasons:

The Vita and an 8GB memory card was 160$

PSN + Had Gravity Rush and Uncharted Golden Abyss as free downloads.

I've had it for some time now and while I do enjoy it, I really don't play many games on it(it's mostly a YouTube player for me)

To me, the Vita is not and never will be worth 250$ with the most expensive memory cards. ~.~ I'm still sitting on this 8GB. I refuse to pay the ludicrous prices they want.

Sony wants the Vita to sell? Cut the price. Cut it hard. 180$ and cut the prices of the memory cards heavily, then release games that catch attention. Right now, no matter how good the Vita is on paper, it's still a 250$ PS3 with the built in memory replaced by a touch screen and 'portability'.

If it doesn't pick up this Christmas, Sony might as well pull the plug IMO.

I think vita and wiiU are in very different situations... People at the very least know what games are coming for the wiiU and most of them are exclusive to the wiiU and are system sellers but there are zero interesting games (for me anyways) are coming for the vita that is exclusive to the vita itself... Most are indie or games that are already on the ps3 and most third party "AAA" games are a joke in terms of review scores. So, while I disagree with Pachter on most of his predictions, his Vita one might be right unless Sony does something about it.

Ps4 remote play sounds great but there are already rumors that vita won't work as a controller for ps4 unless developers need to add extra code in order to make it work... For all we know (and correct me if I am wrong), that could be the same case for the remote play

And even if it isn't... Honestly, only the hardcore will pay extra $250 on a $400 ( + games) piece of hardware that requires wifi or internet connection to have remote play

Pachter is always wrong or true. If he is true, he said the obvious. If he is wrong he tried to predict something.

Is is far to early to predict if Wii U will be a failure. At least wait until next year after the big Nintendo and Third-Party games are out.

But Vita on the other hand seems dead now. Even big first & and third-Party games did not raise the sales.

I unfortunately agree. The Vita has had nothing going for it ever since launch. I have been trying to find something to get interested in it, like a game or something, but besides ports, second rate spin offs (eg. Uncharted Golden Abyss, Assassins's Creed Liberation), or cross platform games, there's nothing that makes the Vita essential.

I don't need one to play PS3 or PS4 games, not going to get one to play PSP or PS1 games. If I get a Vita, it'd be to play Vita games, games I can only play on that console. And really, aside from maybe Gravity Daze, what game is there that is of a certain quality and doesn't fall into one of the three categories I mentioned in my first paragraph?

He's stating the obvious here so at least he can be right for once. Of course Vita is dead, it doesn't matter who says this, it's a given at this point: there is nothing close to a killer app to come in the future and there is no point for developpers to release games on it as 3DS is destroying it in terms of installed base. Even Sony barely supports the system now.

Expecting RP to save it is also ridiculous : who would pay more than 600 $ for something which is just one of the WiiU features even if for PS4 owners it "only" means paying an additionnal 200 $? That's a lot of money to ask for a feature which in itself doesn't make the WiiU to sell amazingly well right now.

So of course he is  still an idiot and an incompetent but at least he's right here.

Pacther is an idiot for stating the obvious?