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Viktor on 07 September 2013
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Conina said:
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Tom3k said:
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And surprise no new 1st party announcement at E3 and GC, instead concentration on ports of old smartphone indy games and a publishing deal with a 3rd party developer for a Nintendogs clone called Playstationpets. This is exactly what the majority of PSV launch buyers bought the system for. Yeah, sorry I can´t take such apologists seriously anymore.

I can't say for what people bought PSV, but I know for what I did. I got it to play games on it when I don't have access to my PS3/PC. And I've been doing that for over a year now. Sure everybody whines that PSV only gets "ports" of homeconsole games... And while I would love to see more original content on Vita, I couldn't be happier for games like Dragon's Crown, Muramasa, P4, BlazBlue, Mortal Kombat, Sly Cooper, PASBR, Rayman Origins... Borderlands 2, FF X, Rayman Legends...

That´s fine if you are happy with old ports since I already played the original ones I was interested in, obviously I don´t really care about those. There just is no reason to whine about people who actually don´t like where the PSV is actually heading into. The problem is that even such ports are getting sparce as time goes by and the focus now lies in ports of cheap smartphone games instead of ports of old console games.

Yeah, we get it. Every port the Vita gets, is of an old game nobody should even care about anymore.

Like Dragon's Crown (2013, simultaneously with PS3), Guacamelee! (2013, simultaneously with PS3), Rayman Legends (2013, 2 weeks late), Quell Memento (2013, 2 weeks late), Jacob Jones (2013, simultaneously with iOS), TWD 400 Days (2013, 6 weeks late), The Walking Dead (2012, GotY), Dead or Alive 5 (2012), NfS: Most Wanted (simultaneously with PS3/PC/360), Hotline Miami (2012), Sine Mora (2012), Sound Shapes (2012, simultaneously with PS3), Virtue's Last Reward (2012, simultaneously with 3DS), The Pinball Arcade (simultaneously with PS3/360), Retro City Rampage (simultaneously with PS3/PC), Rayman Origins (2011, 3 months late),  Limbo (2010)...

Ports of older games are even more worthless, since EVERYONE already played EVERY game in the past. And don't come with "upgraded graphics", "portability" or "additional gameplay", Persona 4 was perfect on PS2, so were MGS2, MGS3 and Final Fantasy X/X-2.


I´m just talking about my own buying habits which looking at most sales numbers isn´t actually that uncommon.

 

Ports of old games: if I was interested in one of those games I likely already bought them, if not probably I didn´t really have any interest in the first place, thank god I´m not desperate enough to buy mediocre games to justify a system I´ve bought and a patient person that I actually can wait for new software.

ports of PS3 games("simultanous release"): mostly downgraded on PSV, so I don´t really see a reason to choose the inferior version of the game

ports of smartphone games: no thank you

 

The biggest problem right now is that Sony is pushing extremely hard the the latter/old smartphone indy games category, something I just don´t care about. It´s a nice bonus for the ones who care, but personally I bought the system more for games like Wipeout2047. So please PSV lovers have mercy.