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hinch on 07 January 2022
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Leynos said:
d21lewis said:

I still can't get over how well the Vita was made. Sony did almost everything right with that one (aside from the memory cards). It had features that people have been begging for on the Switch almost ten years ago. I can't comprehend why it failed so miserably.

Love my Vita but yeah Sony failed the Vita. Booed on stage with AT&T. Memory cards. Too expensive in 2012. (3DS was $50 and was struggling until 3DS price was lowered) poor marketing. Sony barley supported it and after 2013 hardly mentioned it at press conferences. Maybe Sony wanted Vita to be the Bro handheld with FPS and maddens but turned into the SEGA Saturn/Dreamcast of handhelds with a lot of smaller great niche games. Indie and Japan. Vita is just flat out an amazing system. I also love the Vita TV tho it was a rushed product. Vita TV should have come out in 2014 and shipped with a DS4 so all games could work on it.

Vita stumbled so Switch could run full sprint.

Coming from someone who loved playing PSP it was a damn shame. I didn't get one as it just didn't have a game or system seller for me to consider. The hardware was top notch though and was in a lot of ways ahead of its time for a portable - OLED screen, full miniature analogue sticks capacitive touchscreens etc.

Dreamcast was my favourite of failed consoles I owned. From launch it had a brilliant library of games. Sadly it was short lived between SEGA practically running out of money at the time, rampant piracy and PS2 finally laying it to rest. Had a lot of fun with it though. And I even bought the light gun for it and everything!