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Dude in 10 years when people are doing Video's of Sony's biggest mistakes the Vita will be right up there. For one your right with the name, we had Playstation, Playstation 2 Playstation 3 and finally Playstation 4 and Playstation Portable or PSP. So where does the name Vita fit in to this. now granted gamers would know but the casual's would be wondering what the heck is this like the Wii U in many respects. This was just the start.

The launch library was garbage. Ports of garbage. Some gems like Escape Plan but these were far from console experiences. Nothing that would have Vita owners connect up and share experiences or good multiplayer.

The Memory card fiasco and the price point the Vita was pricey for a mobile unit but when you figured in the mandatory memory card and that Sony decided to make their own propietary memory cards that were outrageously expensive 100$ for a 32G card add this to the already high cost and your at an outrageous price point.

Two models one that used a wi fi and one that could use data from your phone plan not to play mind you but to download or upload scores or trophies and ATT was the only network which made the added cost of having two models and confusion over what did what.

The inability to include mini hdmi to allow the Vita to be played on a large screen.

You were right about the shoulder buttons, waste of money on touch screen and touch back when all we wanted was 4 shoulderbuttons.

Instead of focusing on the mistakes and correcting ship, they dropped support for the Vita very quickly relegating it to indie and Japanese titles where is the one place the Vita does sell. Once people realized the support was gone people lost interest.


I know at the time Sony was bleeding money but still they could have easily fixed the issues, dropping the price of the Vita, Dropping the price drastically for the memory units. Ramping up support for titles and advertising.

Its sad because I still use my VIta the OLED screen is gorgeous the thumbsticks are perfect its great for youtube, netflix and does have a lot of good indie titles for it, and some aaa games like KillZone and Resistance FFX/XII

Anyways we can't cry over spilled milk, it is what it is.