PS Vita: How NOT to Save a Console 

Angers me to till this day. How do you just fumble some technology like that. So impressive for it's time

Imo i think it all came down the the price, the price of the vita and the storage was too expensive for 2011, Imo simple as that

@@rinnnnnnnnnnrin while ps portal is doing much better. Explain that?

I think the Portal was Sony’s way of testing the portable market to see how players would respond. The Portal is currently performing very well, so we’ll have to wait and see what they do with that info going forward

@@marvelmania7283 Sony's marketing was completely misguided. Focusing on making a handheld that does everything a smartphone does - including not playing PSP - pushed away even their die hard fans.

@@ZackLillipad is it performing very well? I literally know no one who has one. I haven't even seen a unit in person.

​@@ZackLillipad I doubt it. Sony already has difficulty supporting PlayStation 5, entering the portable console market means competing against Nintendo, unlike 20 years ago Nintendo no longer makes weak portables and considering that Sony relies heavily on third party support, it will be a worse version of the Nintendo portable consoles.

@marvelmania7283 Admittedly I also don’t know anyone who has it but it’s consistently at the top of the sales charts for gaming accessories. And Sony said fairly recently that demand for the Portal far exceeded their expectations.

Possibly, but it did more harm than good for them. If they were priced better but still proprietary their mileage with the VITA would've been a bit longer.

And hackers simply made the SD2 VITA, one of which currently sits in my Vita lol

@@EmperorSheepy I have a very similar card for my og hacked Vader psp 2000. It's a magic memory stick that takes 2 micro sd cards and combines them into a single pool. Absolutely love when the community cuts through proprietary BS like this so easily.

but u could still download psp games on the Psstore

@mrtitanspeakerman this is true but at that time most of us had a decent physical library that we couldn't do anything with unless you kept your psp where with the 3DS we didn't have that problem

@@Rojo-Infernoyea and also the price

​@@mrretrogamesguy only a fraction of the PSP's library was available

@@ericp631you could still copy over and play over any PSP games you bought digitally even if they weren’t on the vita store thanks to the integrated PSP hardware.

Yeah, what an epic fail. 8 years of development and millions down the sh!tter.

Concord also released at the wrong time, it release at a time when everyone are getting tired of hero shooters. All we want now is Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

@VOAN stay butthurt about the playstation portal and sony portables in general kid. You too poor to afford the playstation portal 🤣

@@VOAN cope harder Nintendo switch fanboy

While ps portal is selling like hotcakes. Explain that?

​@@EnaTenkiyoGamerI completely forgot about the portal. 😂

@@armando_az1 😂

​@@EnaTenkiyoGamer, lol, sony only sell few unit 😆💩😉...of course few unit will sold out easily

@@QuantumChrist hahaha you so butthurt about sony portables kid. Too poor to afford it hahaha

It kind of blew most games sucked. If it vould play ps3 games yes ot woulf b good

I agree with the Shovelware, trackpad, AR, and camera, but Gyro aim is a godsend in any game that requires aiming. Also, MonHun did come back to Vita with Frontier... It was just Japan exclusive.

Playstation portal is better 😂

Playstation portal says hi

@@EnaTenkiyoGamer I didn't get anything, maybe the ps portal lost its wifi connection. 🤣

@@guilhermegoldman hahaha Nintendo switch fanboy crying over the playstation portal 🤣

@@EnaTenkiyoGamer Nintendo left my country after the Wii bc we like piracy a bit too much. Lol Wouldn't matter anyway since it wouldn't fit in my uniform and I do most of my gaming while away from home. For now I'm sticking to my 3ds and Vita.

Stay tuned 🫡

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The plural is ps Vitae. Lol

@@guilhermegoldmanfor real hey?

@@iBMcFly Sony just had to name it something worst than 3ds. 😅

@@guilhermegoldman I think both systems have decent names.

It's also criminal that the PS Vita doesn't had a big enough internal storage space instead only giving PS Vita customer 1gb to work with. Heck with all the apps, os, and update that constantly comes for the system that 1gb got filled up really fast forcing customer to rely on the expensive memory cards while Nintendo owners who own a 3DS doesn't had to worry about space or memory as some games save directly to the cartridge or the 3DS internal 512mb ram while the 3DS also support SD Card and microSD card up to 512gb which are more affordable. A nice breath of fresh air compare to the PS Vita memory card situation.

Psvr 2 is not a console

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@@IceyDio mostly remoteplay and PSP "emulation".

And it still would have tanked. -The UMD drive was the most vulnerable part of the PSP, easily broken or made non-functional. Its motor and laser assembly drained the battery much faster than reading from the Memory Stick PRO Duo(TM), and once the system was jailbroken ripping discs to ISO images became child's play. It's the single biggest contributor to the PSP's piracy problem and moving to solid state game cards was the right call. -A stronger first-party lineup should have been a priority from day one, but consider this: The Vita and PS4 were the beginning of Sony's problem of overspending on individual AAA games, which has become downright ridiculous. Spider-Man 2 cost something like $315 million and had to move 7 million units _just to break even._ They abandoned the SS Vita because their investments hadn't resulted in the sales of a sufficient number of consoles for the platform to reach critical mass. What Sony really should have done with Vita was to take a page each from Nintendo and the independant scene. Fewer expensive AAA movies you occasionally get to play, more pick-up-and-play bursts of entertainment. Lots more! -Along with that stronger lineup of less expensive games, Sony's marketing department should have gotten their asses out of bed and actually promoted the damned thing AND its software, first _and_ third party. Even if that meant acknowledging that the thing wasn't exactly the cutting edge of graphical fidelity or immersive experiences. Even if it meant leaning into the console's strongest selling point later in its lifespan: its catalog of JRPGs and niche anime games. -3G was a joke and it shouldn't have been included in the first place. It was a pointless gimmick that needlessly increased the R&D budget for absolutely no payoff. Have you ever tried to play, say, Rocket League over a cellular connection? It's hell on Earth. Even at its best, you just wind up wishing you had real Wi-Fi and abandoning cellular the moment you're back in range of your router. Upgrading from shit to crap would have helped nothing. -The Switch ended the pattern of a withdrawal of support from EA meaning a console is doomed, thank the gods. Platforms live and die based on the strength of their own libraries, not the contributions of a single publisher, no matter how huge and monolithic. The entire industry would be better off if EA imploded. -Really? You wouldn't have just used microSD cards? Sony could have absolutely used cheap memory cards and still hardened them against piracy with an encrypted file system. The PSP and Vita homebrew scenes were full of really smart people who absolutely would have defeated the console's security measures anyway; Those damned memory cards were just Sony getting high on their own supply, _again._ Cheap and plentiful storage would have scared off fewer users, and it would have made it so I could actually use my Vita's cartridge slot instead of an SD2Vita adapter. At the end of the day, Sony didn't fight to save the Vita because they didn't have to. SCE's bread and butter is AAA, singleplayer blockbusters you play after plopping your ass on the couch. If PS4 was as shaky out of the gate as the Wii U, things might have turned out differently, but that's not what happened. Nintendo HAD TO fight to pull the 3DS' head above water. It was the only way to keep the whole ship afloat while they dipped into their war chest to develop a console the public actually wanted.. and the Switch was everything the Wii U AND the Vita should have been.

Sony is all about the profit margins. That's what got them this far. They aren't going to invests millions leading up to a layoff when their consoles are doing well. It's a recipe for bankruptcy if they do lol PS Portal is selling well though so there's that 😂

I didn’t like UMD’s the catties break and then you have to buy new ones. Also iirc, some umd versions of games had features removed. UMD’s are cool but they’re not very practical imo. Rear touchpad can stay, it’s a decent substitute for L2 and R2 once you actually get used to it. Other than that, I agree with this.

- I used to agree about the rear touchpad, but full trigger buttons would stick out too much and hurt the Vita’s portability. - UMD’s were a mistake that should never have existed. The disc drives took up way too much battery life, and loading times were painfully slow. If anything, the PSP should’ve used cartridges. - For launch lineup, the Vita should’ve been on par with the PSP by having its own God of War and GTA from day one. - Cellular data for Vita was a mistake. A cool concept at first, but not worth it. Shouldn’t have been attempted at all.

@morsecode980 New 3DS and Switch Lite have 4 shoulder buttons and don't affect the portability.

PS5's doing _okay._ It's the economics of AAA game production and Sony/MS dropping new consoles during a global pandemic that torpedoed this generation of consoles. I bet some fun new games that aren't gonna also release on PS4 would really help, though!

Not the touchpad! I hate having to click with the joysticks. 😓

Ps portal is here to stay

@@EnaTenkiyoGamer it would be tragic if they didn't give their next handheld remote play just to keep the portal around.

@guilhermegoldman sony isn't making a ps vita 2. Get over it. We need to move on

@@morsecode980long wall of butthurt text Nintendo switch fanboy lmao

@@morsecode980 playstation portal subreddit tells you to go post there and cry about it hahaha

same here!

The reason why the PS Vita doesn't support SD Cards or microSD cards was because SanDisk themselves are also Sony's competitor. Sony was competing against SanDisk in the memory card market as well thus why the PSP and Sony's other products such as their digital cameras only support Sony's proprietary Memory Stick Duo instead of SD Cards. It wouldn't make sense for Sony to support SD Cards cause then the money would go to SanDisk instead of Sony. It's like if Sony allows Nintendo to create memory cards for the PS2, yes it'll be cheaper and similar to the GameCube ones but the money would not come to Sony, it'll go directly to Nintendo's own pocket instead.

You'd think they'd have learned from the abysmal PS3 launch with it's $500+ price tag for 20 - 60GB, but Sony and learning from mistakes go together like Milk and a Soda Stream. Not that it matters, they could do anything and people will give them a free pass.

Vita is just pretentious device, it was shit that's why it failed.

@@QuantumChrist someone is butthurt about the playstation vita and portal lol

Playstation portal is better 😂😂😂

Yeah it seem The PS Vita lack a lot of franchise that made PSP awesome, no GTA, no Tekken, no Street Fighter, no Sonic, no Mega Man, no Resident Evil, no Metal Gear, no Crash, no Spyro, no Mortal Kombat, no Plumbers Don't Wear Tie, no Doom, etc. I believe Capcom at one time announce a Resident evil game that was going to come to PSP but never did and many people thought it would instead come to PS Vita but that game never surface. I'm glad the 3DS at least kept it's promise to its audience and actually release their Resident Evil title unlike the PSP situation.

@@VOAN stay butthurt about the long wall of butthurt text and the playstation portal is better than ps vita. Have fun being salty kid hahaha

Nah, the rear camera wasn't bad for 2011, ipod and iphones at the time were similar in quality. I don't see the point in having those cameras though. Sony was trying too hard to cater to the mobile crowd. I will also agree the back touchpad was a dumb gimmick that was hardly used.

PS Portal says hi

How much did u get for them?

Except Wii U actually had good games.

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You don't know that. The market's always changing and consolidating. Now, I can't imagine PS6 being a portable or hybrid, but you really never know. Steam Deck-likes are all the rage now, what if Sony pulled a Sega Nomad and released a PS5-compatible handheld alongside PS6?

@@deadmetalbr I wouldn’t engage with this account if I were you. It seems to be either a troll or a bot that likes harassing people