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sabastian on 09 May 2015

The handheld market has shrunk, but is far from dead.

Gamers are always going to want total control of their handheld games. The cellphone/ Tablet market will continue to garner the casual gamer, but heavy hardcore gamers will always choose a game with physical controls over touchscreen.

With Sony introducing Cross Buy & Remote play into the handheld scheme, Its the perfect shoe in for gamers to continue to purchase handhelds.

And if you think handheld gaming is all but dead, just take a look at those PSN Vita digital downloads..........



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StuOhQ on 09 May 2015
JRPGfan said:
Guitarguy said:
The Vita is probably the one console that I feel truly deserved better. The Dreamcast is a close second but man... The prowress of the Vita hardware and its physical construction(OLED screen, two REAL analog sticks, not nubs like the N3DS). I keep hoping for a comeback but it's not going to happen...

 

Yep vita / ps tv, should be getting more sales than it currently does. 

All the PSP + PS VITA rpgs add up to there being quite a few of them.

 

"I'd say it's impressive how the Wii U is doing vs the Vita, considering how little software it gets, along with downloadable titles."

^ this.

 

Remember all those PS4 has no games comments?

There are people that buy Wii Us and they just sit around collecting dust, because they lack  games.

(the one we have does)


Everybody is different. I play games every day and my Wii U is almost always in the mix. PS4 has been an HBO Go Box since I had my fill of "Bloodborne" for the moment. It hadn't gotten any significant play for a while before that, either. Not since "Dragon Age: Inquisition" came out. 

Admittedly, the Wii U has the benefit of also playing Wii titles (I've been carving back through the Metroid Prime trilogy) and a lot of timeless classics on Virtual Console that are good for an hour or two here and there. A good portion of my time spent on the Wii U is playing older games. 

Still, the PS4 is lacking compelling exclusives at the moment. 

I have a Wii U, Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, and PS4 hooked up to my main television, and probably give game time to them in that order. Recently sold my Xbox 360 and original Xbox so that I could downsize before a move. I was having Halo withdrawals until I got Halo CE on PC. There are a lot of great mods for that game. 



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mysteryman on 09 May 2015
sabvre42 said:
mysteryman said:

Nice try buddy, I've got a Vita, and there's another along with 3 PS4's in my house.

How much time have you spent on the Wii U?

Prove it. You somehow didn't know the limits of your own device.

Check my post history, you'll find some of my collecion there, including the Vita (along with most other consoles).



forevercloud3000 on 09 May 2015

US seems to completely ignore the vita, just as Japan seems to not care for the WiiU. Yet Japan's interest in handhelds is stronger than US's interest in consoles from what we have seen.

I think they both get a fair share of really good games, but they mostly go unnoticed. The Vita gems seem to get completely dismissed tho because they are pretty much all digital or limited release. Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines on Vita is one of the most ground breaking RPGs I have played in a long while.....but most have never heard of it, at least in US.

Also, even though Sony just pretends the Vita doesn't exist, they get unprecedented support from 3rd Parties in Japan, while other than Ubisoft and Koei 3rd parties have all but forgotten the WiiU.



      

      

      

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Keybladewielder on 09 May 2015

The Vita beats the Wii U due to Japan...



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Blob on 11 May 2015
forevercloud3000 said:
US seems to completely ignore the vita, just as Japan seems to not care for the WiiU. Yet Japan's interest in handhelds is stronger than US's interest in consoles from what we have seen.

I think they both get a fair share of really good games, but they mostly go unnoticed. The Vita gems seem to get completely dismissed tho because they are pretty much all digital or limited release. Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines on Vita is one of the most ground breaking RPGs I have played in a long while.....but most have never heard of it, at least in US.

Also, even though Sony just pretends the Vita doesn't exist, they get unprecedented support from 3rd Parties in Japan, while other than Ubisoft and Koei 3rd parties have all but forgotten the WiiU.


Probably because sony not only stealth released it, but stealth released it digital only. I was interested in it, but I dont really like digital games and id have to get a bigger memory card for my vita just to download it. So at the moment the price of Oeshika is just way to high for me to consider it.

Luckily for sony the vita is powerful so third parties can release handheld games that don't run on the 3ds due to it's lack of power. If the NX handheld comes out next year and is more powerful than the vita I can see third parties chucking their software on it instead.



estebxx on 11 May 2015
StarOcean said:
I really love my Vita over my Wii U. Maybe it's just my gaming preferences but the Vita gets more exclusives and ports that interest me over the Wii U. I own SSB, MK8, and SM3DW and will probably get WWHD eventually, in the meantime I'm waiting for Mario Maker (delayed), XCX (delayed), Zelda U (yet ANOTHER delayed game...), and SMT x FE (not delayed but who the hell knows when thats ever coming here?) so my Wii U collects dust while I wait for the few good games to release. On the other hand I see a ton of games I want on the Vita.

In the end though, my personal taste doesn't matter, it's just the battle of the losers. While many here claim the Vita will not be remembered fondly, I very much disagree. I think both will be remembered as great systems that didn't get to live to their full potential.


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