Was the PS Vita a good system?

[HoloDust]

curl-6 said:

HoloDust said:

It ultimately failed on its initial promise, console gaming on the go - they more than had the necessary hardware, they dropped the ball with software (and convincing or moneyhatting major 3rd party to put more effort into it). if you look at it like small games/indie handheld, then yeah, it was fine.

Ah, fair enough, thanks.

Did you think stuff like Uncharted/Killzone/Wipeout were up to standard, but then support dried up, or did they never quite hit the bar in your view?

I think they were fine...but Sony can't support their consoles on 1st party content alone, and apart from few games from 3rd party AAA publishers that really felt like console games on the go, they didn't manage to attract enough support (like they did with GTA Liberty City Stories for PSP for example) - not to mention they've abandoned it themselves fairly quickly.

Not that I think Vita would be (due to general decline in handheld market) hugely more successful even if did have all the necessary support (maybe 10M more?), but its library would be much richer with content it was advertised for.