Should Sony ditch the Playstation Vita?

[Gehirnkrampf]

oni-link said:

Gehirnkrampf said:
There is no explanation why Sony should ditch the Vita.
What is to be done to make it successful:

- more native games obviously
- PS1 support, this is a must!
- integrate the vita as a controller for ps3 games, copy the WiiU concept
- gain indie-developer support through the SDK - hell man, i was looking at the indiegames on steam and would buy some of them for the vita.
- bring a goddamn foot on the japanese market. every week you see several PSP games releasing in the top 10 in japan. why the heck aren't they automatically available on the vita as download, too?
- support the vita with PS+, give me (dynamic) backgrounds, give me one or two minis, just to have more games to play when i just have a few minutes time to play. a handheld needs a reason why pick it with you, when you leave your house. that's what i am missing right now. bring more social network games like a pokemon style game where you can fight against people you meet in the streets...

if they'd reach some of this goals, the vita will be successful.

It's too late in the game for Sony to save this handheld.  If the 3DS doesn't bring it to it's grave the smart-devices (tablets, phones etc) surely will!!! Remember Sony at the moment is fighting for their lives and anything that could hinder their progress should be cut off!!!

well, as long as Apple doesn't bring a "shelf" with buttons and analog sticks for its iphone, i don't see this coming (which really would be the next move for apple). i've tried some games and they are all shitty with crap controls and just interesting for a few minutes. no depth in the games. but yes, i do think this is the last generation of handheld gaming devices and once apple brings some kind of gaming iphone and the others follow, no one will need a vita.

that would be the point where sony needs to either build it's own hardcore smartphone or being successful with it's ps suite, which is honestly a bad idea. i think for the future sony won't be able to run it's own platform on the mobile market, but could compete as a game developer on the iphone / android OS. Nintendo otherwise will always have it's unique selling point: the IPs.

but until then there is still time to go. i'd say at least 3 years where you will need the vita to have the oppurtunity to play some "real" games, not just gimmicky touch minigames. and then... maybe a vita phone? sony and nokia tried, but failed. who knows why they failed with a concept (mobile phone and games) which will kill them (smartphone and games). maybe nokia where too early with it's n-gage, and sony too late with xperia play.