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naruball on 13 April 2014
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nitekrawler1285 said:
naruball said:

Though you do have a point, I really think that saying that they didn't try is simply wrong. Didn't try hard enough.... maybe.

They gave us Gravity Rush, Tearaway, LBP, Uncharted at launch!, Wipeout (ok not that popular, but still), that golf game, Resistance, Killzone, Sky Cooper 4(?), several ports of collections and in a few days GOW collection. They even made Soul Sacrifice, due to the lack of Monster Hunter, which they promoted quite a bit. Now they're releasing Freedom Wars, which looks promising and may be considered an answer to Monster Hunter as well. They obviously tried. Sure, they should have done more, but saying that they let it out to die is just wrong.  Many wrong decisions, but seeing them getting a team to make (e.g. COD)/port (Mickey game) games to vita shows an effort to help it succeed. 

I can give you that they tried with emulating MH. 

Witholding their most successful IPs seen from the last console doesn't seem like showing an effort to help it succeed.  Giving CoD to a historically sub par team that already had an FPS due out that year and not getting a full development cycle doesn't sound like an effort to help it succeed.  Bringing games that didn't sell well on more popular platforms doesn't show an effort to help it succeed so much as a panicked grab for whatever they can get.  Dropping support 1st party output below anything seen any year on PSP  in year 2 and 3 doesn't scream effort to help it succeed so much as quietly letting it die.    

We know there wont be as much Vita software from Sony in the future because their 3 part plan is 2 parts buying a PS4 and streaming it's games.  If them telling you to buy another platform and it's games isn't enough for people to get the hint that they are not putting efforts towards Vita's success I honestly don't know what to say.  With friends like this Vita doesn't need enemies.  

I don't understand how you can completely disregard all the positives and focus on all the negatives. The positives are many. As I said, LBP, Uncharted and Killzone were 3 out of their 5 most successful IPs.

It's like complaining to your wife that she doesn't show an effort by listing all the things that she didn't do that you wanted her to do and not paying any attention to all that she has actually done. Saying that Sony didn't try is, in my opinion, by all means wrong and an exaggeration. What they should have done is more, just like you said. They didn't, which makes their efforts subpar/inadequate, not non existant.