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Forums - Sony Discussion - Why didn't sony use the same plan with the vita as they had with the psp?

burninmylight on 22 August 2014
CDiablo said:
Ummmm let it get hacked so people will pirate games for it but move a lot of hardware, cause thats basically what happened.


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stlwtng4Dmdrxip on 22 August 2014

3 words: memory cards scam. Also release price was ridiculous and "ps Vita" is a bad name.



maximus22 on 22 August 2014
Mr.Playstation said:
maximus22 said:

Sony didn't screw up the Vita at all. They made an amazing handheld and it has tons of great games. My backlog on it is so big I don't think I'll ever get to all the games I want on it. The only problem is, for some reason, most people either aren't interested in it or just don't realize how much it has to offer and therefore aren't buying it. Is Sony supposed to keep spending money to acquire huge AAA titles when the masses have made it quite clear they're not interested? 

People keep blaming Sony, but looking more closely it isn't their fault.

By any chance is that backlog of games mainly made up of indie title with a few AA games sprinkled here and their which make you think that you have an amazing  collection. If the masses are so not intrested then tell me why most of the top 10 selling ps vita games are AAA games. 


Lol, so if I like indie titles then I've succumbed to some kind of trickery?  I don't know the difference between AA and AAA, but I do know that the majority of the games I've played on Vita have been every bit as enjoyable and just as big as most of my games on PS3 and PS4.  And yes there are lots of indie games in there as well, so what?  

I'm not going to list my collection but if you'd like to see some of the great games, AAA or otherwise available on the Vita then go here.  And in my opinion, many of those scores don't do their respective titles justice.

And of course the AAA games are going to sell the best, that's not what I meant.  By the masses not being interested I was referring to the Vita itself having less than 10 million sales after almost 3 years on the market.  

In my opinion the only place that Sony really screwed up was to charge so much for memory cards.  People aren't idiots they know when they're being ripped off so I don't really understand why Sony did that.



Xxain on 22 August 2014
TheWPCTraveler said:
"Why bother with the Vita when I can have the same experience, or even better, on the PS3?"
That's what happened.

Of course, I don't have a PS3, so I'm going to end up having a Vita one way or another.


Add PS TV to this statement and it is primary reason for VITAs failure.