Honestly, it's probably a little bit of short term rage, but that Type-0 announcement then withdrawal actually gave me a bit of a kick in the backside regarding Vita.
I'm a little tired of having to fight tooth and nail to get anything I want on this console. Borderlands; Tales of Hearts; Sword Art Online etc. And now Type-0.
And then always crossing my fingers that stuff I want will actually come to the console of its own accord.. Stuff that I presumed would be coming when Vita was announced. Things like Type-0 (always assumed it was a shoe-in for a porting + western release); new Ratchet/Jak/Sly; anything from the mid-tier of Sony (Twisted Metal ; Syphon Filter etc.)
Even when we do get stuff I'd like - such as HD Collections (having some of my favourite games with me on the go is no bad thing), it's a battle to get enough information to see whether they're worth buying or not. And in the majority of cases they're not, due to shit porting.
Even the indies we're getting are hit and miss. There's stuff that catches my interest, sure - I'm hugely hyped for Hotline Miami 2; Drifter looks great etc. But the majority of indie stuff that I'm really excited about gets announced for PS4 only - stuff like Earthlock & Shiness on Kickstarter; or stuff like No Man's Sky and The Talos Principle.
The first two years were great but it's clear that things are only going to keep getting worse from here on.
Anyway, I'm not going to say anything more dramatic like "I'm selling my Vita tomorrow and forgetting all about it". I'm going to keep it and there's still tonnes of stuff I am looking forward to on it (for starters it's the home of Dangan Ronpa!) It's still getting plenty of localizations I really want for the time being.
But I think it's time for me to be a little less invested in it going forward. PS4/3DS had a lot of stuff shown between them that I'm interested in, so it's probably time for me to dive into one of them, rather than devoting 99% of my time to Vita stuff; 1% of time to PS3 and no time to anything else.
It's been a goddamn roller coaster ride being a Vita fan, but one with a lot of excitement which doesn't really lead to any payoff, unfortunately.
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