Got a link to where Sony promised all these 3rd party western AAA titles?

"Console quality gaming on the go" was the marketing I remember and it delivered 100%.

Yay I'm the ****ing best!!!

lol if a console sells small numbers off course it will have a higher attach rate because those small numbers are the core players.

ATM I have a lot more 3DS retail games than VITA retail games but the average won't reflect that due to shear numbers of consoles sold between them.

Personally I hope Sony keep the handheld around longer so we get a few more games as I been enjoying my portable console games. Good pace changer from 3DS games.

The Vita actually has good support from Milestone in europe. Moto GP 13, WRC 3 and 4, Motocross GP (theres football manager aswell from SEGA actually). I would dare say that is more than the 3DS is getting. Its just not coming from a huge american publishers. But then again they arent doing anything on the 3DS either, so how can we blame the Vita alone for that?

The Vita is for niche JRPGs, indie games, and remote play. If those things interest you then it's a great system. If not then you should avoid it.

I think the Vita is great. I'd love to be able to get one once it comes down to a reasonable price.

I think it deserves to be where it is. Sony has barely supported it! They still supported the PS3 when it was failing, and looked where it turned out! They should have done that with the Vita. It doesn't really matter as long as they at least support one console (Which they are with the PS4)

Fixed.

It's a matter of consumer expectations.

If you were looking for console quality on the go I think those people have plenty of 100% valid complaints. BL2 I think is the best most recent example. Similar criticisms for it can be said about almost all of the PS3 to Vita ports and collections to a degree. Big western AAA games is what people associate with console quality gaming. If that is what they were looking for then Vita indeed deserves it's reputation because it doesn't get many at all and the ones it gets are paired down in comparison.

If you aren't looking for AAA western games Vita doesn't deserve it's reputation in any form shape or fashion. Probably why it does so well in Japan. It's got TONS of great smaller games. TONS of classics. TONS of JRPGs. TONS of indies.

That's not entirely true though.

Uncharted: GA, Killzone Mercenaries, Resistance Burning Skies, LBP vita, Tearaway, Assassin's Creed Liberation, and COD : declassified are all not JRPGs, indie game or ps4 games that work with remote play. I'm sure there are other games as well. You can argue that some of them are not good, but quality is subjective. Even COD vita had great multiplayer according to people who actually played it.Point is, even if you want big franchises (or in Tearaway's case games from well established developers), you can find them on psvita.

The psvita has a bit of everything for everyone. It doens't deserve its bad rep, but for a number of reasons it's pretty much dead everywhere apart from Japan. It's a shame, but it is what it is.