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Kongfucius on 16 November 2013
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Scisca said:
Kongfucius said:
On another note, I know quite a few people are a little worried about the small number of vita games confirmed for 2014, but if you have a certain taste in games, the first two months of next year alone are pretty good in some ways because we get DBZ:Battle of Z in the end of January, Danganronpa and Toukiden in mid-February, as well as Ys at some point round here (in Europe), plus hopefully it shouldn't take Squenix too long to bring over FFX and FFX-2 HD. Plus there's other small stuff I don't know about like Demon Gaze. I admit that with the exception of FF there's nothing that's going to be hugely popular, but there's 6 games there I plan to buy which we should have by the spring. I'm pretty happy about that :)


That's the problem with Vita. It gets many good games and is really awesome for people who already own it. It's just that there is little incentive to actually buy the console and no games that could turn it into a mandatory purchase. It needs a GTA5: San Andreas Stories with graphics on par with KZ:M, a MGSV spin-off, maybe a FF game based on the assets of FF XIII? Sony should go after this, SE should agree to make a game basing on the same assets for the fourth time It's in their style and they can no longer use them to make games for PS3 or PS4 There are tons of other games they could make for a reasonable budget that would draw many people to the console, Sony should hire someone like Shahid but instead of telling him to hunt indies, he should negotiate with the big boys. They should also try to acquire ports of core Wii games - The Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Madworld, The Conduit 1 and 2, Red Steel 2 - all should be equally easy to port as Stranger's Wrath (which was made by one person as I recall?) and shouldn't cost much, hence they'd sure be profitable. I mean, they've already ported Muramasa and it's great. That could easily fix the problem of a lack of games.

Sony should turn PSV into a mobile PSX, PS2 and Wii + PS3/PS4 spin-offs with a few exclusive franchises.

It's true, there's no technical reason why those sorts of games can't exist on vita, its all financial - between a traditional disinterest in the console as a handheld from most western 3rd parties and the fact that the install base remains small, many devs don't see vita exclusive content as viable and that's going to be very difficult thing to change. Either sony comes up with something themselves which can do that or they get the chequebook out and start moneyhatting, otherwise it will remain a cult system, albeit with a very dedicated fanbase. That said, these small games can help as if a game is a surprising success, we may get more from them - if the FF remasters do well, SE may think again and give us more games which are popular enough to get more people buying the system