Why the Vita Failed - PlayStation's Lost Gamble - Extra Credits 

You didn't mention those damn expensive memory cards!!!!!!

i'm blaming the bullshit unique memory card

What really killed the vita, as well as the psp can be summed up in two words, PROPRIETARY MEMORY! Seriously? 20 bucks for 4 gigs? what is this, 2002?

What can we all agree on? Fun > Graphics

Also let's not forget the overpriced memory cards

My boyfriend has a Vita, and it's fantastic. It's audio is way louder than any 3DS, it has amazing graphics and touch screen function that surpasses the 3DS, and the ability to use it as both a screen and controller for the PS4 is really handy for bathroom breaks or when someone wants to watch tv instead of a game. That said, I would never buy one. Every handheld Nintendo ever made has bordered on indestructible. I've dropped my 3DS a few times, and it's come out unscathed each time. The Vita, on the other hand, took one fall and the screen shattered. 3DS's can also have their storage upgraded way more easily, with owners being able to use any old SD or MicroSD card lying around their house for additional storage, whereas the Vita needs Sony's own kind of memory stick and come in relatively low sizes. As mentioned in the video, Nintendo has a huge supply of games for all their handhelds, but the Vita's own pool is lacking, with most of the good games being on PS4, meaning you have to buy the more expensive home console game AND the console to play it on. The internet browser is great on the Vita, where even the New 3DS browser is lacking, and porn does look considerably better on the Vita than it does on the New 3DS, but I'm not going to shell out that much money for a porn screen for when I'm not near my computer. The PS Vita failing is due to a cocktail of failures, which is a huge bummer because it has so much going for it.

"Gamers want games, not graphics." Why is this not on a T-shirt yet?

With Persona 4 Golden on Steam now, Vita can finally rest in peace.

Why on earth would people preffer playing crappy cellphone games when they can get such high quality games on next gen handhelds?

Man, your animations always make me feel so bad for the losing console. :(

Vita is the 21st century dreamcast

We loved the Vita but Sony didn’t 😥

Vita failed, because Sony failed to realize what kind of games people want to play on a handheld.

Why Vita failed... Sony was focused on their console and forgot to market the Vita. End of story.

And the Gaben ported all of the good vita games to Steam. "Thanks for listening, and have fun!"

I think you should do an episode of why the Wii U failed.

Why is it failed? No Monster Hunter, fuck it Also 3DS already sold 61 million now after two years

A simple solution would be to develop a simple method of porting ps1, ps2 and ps3 games directly onto the system without too much effort, this way they could massively increase their software library in just a few short months,

I agree the vita is dead but to say it's a bad system is crazy, I would still recommend it in 2016.

It's pretty cool how Nintendo worked around this issue of "too high quality handheld" through having the Switch be a fusion.

Just port the old playstation library onto the the Vita. That is all Sony needed and still needs to do. Make the Vita into a time machine for games that you can't buy anymore and you will have people all racing to buy your console. Also drop the price of memory cards, there is no reason that they need to be so expensive.

We can all agree that Nintendo is way better at handheld marketing than Sony.

While it's true with the Vita, the whole "specs don't matter" isn't really true overall. For example: Wii U's low specs were quite a huge problem even for Nintendo's own titles like Splatoon and Zelda because specs are not only graphics but also determine what is possible to make gameplay-wise. That's the reason why New 3DS exists. What's needed is good balance between specs, development costs and price.

It's interesting to see this video now, in the context of post Nintendo Switch. I suspect the Vita's failure was more Sony giving up on it more than anything else.

Sony forgot that most people are not rich when they made the vita. This will make an example to game developers to not go for a high end console especially when it comes to a hendheld. PSVita is way ahead of its time but people are fucking cheap to be spending $400 on a vita with 1 game and a 8GB memory.

Ripoff memory cards and a bad economy certainly didn't help the Vita at all. Who wants to buy a game only to realize they have to spend twice as much just to save it? What a fail on Sony's part.

any company that makes a handheld... has got to battle Nintendo.... and, that's like trying to sit on gods throne.

Couldn't they have just ported games and built games that didn't necessarily fully use its graphics capabilities and thus have games just as cheap as its competitors?

I still like my Vita better than I like my iPhone.

Wow, quite a few people villainising extra credits for saying the vita failed. No one complains when it's the Wii u being talked about, and that's a similar scenario of a console failing. Just because something is a financial flop doesn't make it bad.

I'm surprised to see the Vita Defence Force still commenting on this video 2 years later. C'mon guys, I own one too but it's not like the Vita's turned things around since 2014.

I love psvita and I care more about a quality game than just having to many games to buy. I don't have the power to buy a game once a week so this is why the psvita is still alive to me!

I still use my Vita more than my 3DS.

Memory card end of discussion.

That whole argument is fucking bullocks If it was true, we wouldn't be seeing a fucking tidal wave of indie games being made or ported to the vita months after months after months. Console specs don't matter, because it doesn't stop a developper to make just a game that he wants, nobody who owns a vita absolutely DEMANDS that you push the hardware to it's limit, mostly that the game is good and meaty enough. The reason the vita failed is because Sony utterly just didn't know how to market it, still doesn't, and that SCEA did a shitty job in general in advertising, making games and making ports for the system. That and absolutely insane memory card prices, a long draught with no games with one year late behind the 3ds

My personal problem with the vita was the proprietary memory cards. They were super expensive, only available in certain sizes at most stores, so the bigger ones were hard to come by and even then they were stupidly expensive.

PEOPLE BE LIKE WE WANT GRAPHICS UNTIL PS VITA CAME OUT WE WANT MORE GAMES!!!!!

Watching this video, I thought it was pretty old when he said "The Vita has far less games than the 3DS". This video, from june 25 2014, seems to claim that there are 8 vita games for every 15 3DS games. A quick search (25 seconds) ot some fun results: As of June 24th, there are 642 PSVita games, and as of April 8th, there are 504 3DS games. It seems that people who bitch that there aren't any Vita games are people who refuse to look for/find them... I have 2 32GB memory cards because I have so many games... 11 physical copies, and 37 digitally-downloaded games (which excludes all those I got free from Playstation+)... I have no idea what this guy is talking about, but he clearly likes 3DS more than PSVita. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_software en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Vita_games Anyway, 3DS sales pretty much only go up when Nintendo releases a Call of Dut... err, Pokémon game.

Translation: Vita games are better and therefore more expensive. People are cheap ass fucks who would rather pay for cheaper games than quality, expensive ones. Thus, DS sells more. Got it.

When I’m playing on my 3DS, I’m not expecting 7th generation console quality graphics. I’m expecting my games to be fun to play. I didn’t purchase a Vita because I didn’t see the point when I could buy an Xbox or a PS4.

I don't understand why developers felt they had to make the most out of the Vita's hardware. Why not just make cheaper Vita games with 3DS-level graphics? On my PC I have plenty of cheap indie games that have moderate system requirements, despite my PC being fairly powerful.

Here's what I would've done different with the PlayStation Vita if I were Sony: - instead of cards, games would've come on Super UMDs, which would be based of Blu Ray Discs similar to how UMDs were based off DVDs. You would also be able to use existing PSP UMDs on the Vita - instead of expensive proprietary memory cards, use the universal Memory Stick Duo or SD card standard for game saves and downloaded games! - provide a very strong 1st party lineup, with new exclusive entries in many 1st party franchises - if EA still fail to deliver and make every Fifa last year's game with this year's transfers, revive the World Tour Soccer series and acquire the CFL (Canadian Footbal League) license and use that to revive GameDay - add 4G support to later model systems - add 2GB onboard storage to all systems, meaning that memory cards would only be needed if one wants more storage If you have any other ideas, I'd like to hear them

*Gameplay > Graphics*

The DS and 3DS thrive due to exclusives such as Pokemon, LoZ remasters, Pokemon, Mario titles, and Pokemon. I love my Vita, but I have to admit that if it weren't for Pinball, PSclassics and portable internet I wouldn't have a reason to play it really. Also, I feel discouraged to use remote play because the "R2 & L2" on the rear touch screen is finicky and uncomfortable.

As a Vita owner, one who may enjoy it even more than the 3DS (especially considering the drought the 3DS is going through in 2014), i'd also add that Sony's lack of understanding of portable gameplay was what truly began the spiral into the mess the Vita is stuck in. There are some very unique titles made by their studios (Tearaway, Gravity Rush, etc.), but most of their major releases feel like downgraded titles you could find on a PS3/4. There is a fundamental difference in how portable play functions as opposed to consoles. Console and PC games tend to be for longer stretches of time, often with friends online. Portable games tend to be designed with a pick up and play mentality, titles which you can play for 5 minutes while being driven to school, relaxing on break and so on. That difference, along with Sony marketing the console as a home console experience on the go, were the first major steps that they took down the stairs to the dreary basement where the Vita now dwells. Probably where that Bioshock Vita game is hiding too, come to think of it.

were at 11 million now , it's like the Saturn, all the exclusives we get now are from Japan which is actually ok with me

Actually the Vita has sold 8.4 million units, that's a little bit more than 4 million, don't you think? I'm assuming you got that number from wikipedia, where it says "Units sold: 4 million (as of January 2013)", of course the console sold more in the 17 months since then than it did in the 11 months before that point. So "It hasn't even managed 10% of nintendo's 3DS sales" is completely wrong, it's actually just under 20% (~19,4$).

they should've continued with PSP

I bought the psvita its a great system

At 1:54 "The graphics capabilities are somewhere above the N64 but below the Gamecube" Uhhh... whaaaat? I'd say they are roughly equal to the Wii, if not better. Maybe if you are talking about the resolution then sure. The resolution of the 3DS is terrible. It's actually worse than the N64 but as far as the detail, textures, lighting, shadows, and overall polygon count then no, it's roughly equal to the Wii.

To all the people in the comments saying that EC "Has got it wrong with this episode", just look at it from a developers point of view. If you've got enough resources to make a AAA game, why wouldn't you just release it for consoles instead and reach a wider audience? If you only have a AA budget, why not make it for DS where the development costs are lower? "But why don't they just make a AA game for the Vita? They don't have to use the full specs!" you say. Firstly, there's the fact that gamers always get unjustly pissed of when a games graphics aren't up to a systems standards. Secondly, development costs are lower for the DS, and since it's too hard to port a game between DS and Vita, developers will just stick to the DS version.

I remember when friends were trying to get me to buy a vita while was rocking the 3DS, they kept telling me how much better there Vitas were. Now.... I'm still rocking the 3DS... How's those Vitas boys?

I think the Wii U, despite it's lackluster sales, is still worth it. Nintendo cares about this system. They want it to succeed and as proven by E3, they're actually starting to make games for it. Sony seems totally content with their Vita as it is and they barely talk about the system. They announced ten games for the system at E3, and most of them weren't highlighted. Compare that to the fifty or so games announced for PS4. And what about the Playstation TV? It plays most Vita games plus much more and it's cheaper.

Expensive Memory cards is what killed the Vita. As if games didn't add cost already, I cant download all the games I want because it cost $100 for just 32GB.

That's a stupid mentality. Like, okay I KNOW graphics are a pain to make. It takes money. But why would any dev need to use 100% of the VIta's hardware? If they had made games at 50-75% of the Vita's power, it would have been enough. I know it is weird to say this, but just because a console is super beefy, doesn't mean you need to take full advantage of it. This is Nintendo's mindset. Their consoles are the weakest at the moment, but having amazing lineups. Why? Because they go for quality in gameplay, over quality in graphics. And it works. People said the 3DS and WiiU were gonna flop, and for a while it looked like it was, but now... no one can argue that the WiiU is 2014's MUST HAVE console, specially coming into the 2015. Though to be honest, the number 1 reason I didn't want to invest into a Vita is because of the lack of cartridge games. They thought that digital distribution was going to be the future, and it didn't turn out that way. I WANT PHYSICAL GAMES, not some digital download, on my shit internet connection!

PS vita= 150=200$ Games= 30-60$ Memory Cards= 1000$

I came here to argue for the VIta, which I love. But end up agreeing. It's a great system and the 4 or 5 games I play on it I LOVE. Deception, MLB, Persona 4, Digaea, Everybody's Golf, Little Big Planet As for Phone gaming. It's not for me. Screens too small, and the control way too imprecise for someone with my hands. Always dragging the wrong thing, dragging nothing at all, dragging two things when I only wanted one, not get a response to a screen click... I struggle to game with any accuracy on my Ipad never mind the tiny screen on my Iphone . Even then, most of the games are pretty much like Flash or Java games from the PC circa 2005. Don't like touch screen gaming full stop actually.

I literally just want a Vita to play Persona 4 again (played the ps2 version to death), but it's hard for me to justify buying an entire system for just one game I technically have already played.

how about sony remasters the good psp games? for the vita?

2019: welp its dead

Also those stupidly expensive proprietary memory cards....

People keep stating Pokemon as the reason the 3DS is successful and the Vita is a failure, but that's not the whole picture. In Japan at least, one of the main reasons the Vita isn't selling as well as it could have been was because Nintendo scooped up Monster Hunter. Japan LOVES Monster Hunter. Hell, the only 3DS two games that have sold more than Monster Hunter 4 on the 3DS are Pokemon and Animal Crossing. The Vita would be much better off if it still had Monster Hunter, but alas,

It's a shame vita doesn't get more titles; but with zero escape, grim fandango coming this month, persona 4, disgaea, corpse party, gravity rush, uncharted, dangan ronpa 1 & 2, metal gear solid HD collection and dragon's crown I can with no doubt recommend picking up a vita. The amount of hours alone you'll put into these titles alone makes the vita a worthy console. Not to mention you can use it to play on your PS4 remotely on any title, and even as an additional controller since the PS4 doesn't support the PS3 dualshock. It is my favorite handheld ever. Specially if you are lucky enough to get one with an OLED screen (I must really stress out that getting one with OLED screen is the way to go). It might not be a commercially successful console, but then again neither was the Dreamcast. And it was (and is) very much worth owning.

As long as Pokemon exists, trying to compete with Nintendo's handhelds is going to be incredibly difficult.

All they needed was a gta exclusive....😞

Why the Vita didn't Fail: Persona 4 Golden

I'd still buy the vita. $200 for a brand new vita with borderlands 2? The 3DS can't touch that. The ps vita has plenty of games. The fact that it isnt selling well is a GOOD THING for buyers. Its not as expensive anymore. The memory cards are a joke though. Fuck you sony for doing that. Theres no denying the massive hardware advantage. If I'm buying a handheld system, I want graphics that my phone can't already offer. Thus, the ps vita is my choice. The vita has far less games, but the quality of its games far surpasses the 3DS. As I mentioned, borderlands 2. A true open-world game with beautiful graphics and hours of enjoyment. I'd say the BL2 bundle is reason enough to buy the vita anyway!

But the Switch is doing fine, and it's kind of like a Vita in that it tries to offer console games on a handheld. Before you mention that the Switch is a hybrid system, the Switch Lite is handheld only.

Then by your definition, the Nintendo switch is going to be in deep trouble if the consumer trend hasn't changed

There ARE amazing games for the Vita, but the common consumer has such shitty taste that they refuse to buy it. And no dev NEEDS to utilize the Vita full graphical capabilities to make must-have games for the system. Play these low-graphic games and then tell me that the Vita suffers from it's own superiority (all of which could be made for the 3DS) Ys Celceta Xblaze Muramasa Rebirth Persona 4 Golden Demon Gaze Toukiden Dangonronpa

Poor Vita, it had a worse game drought than the Wii U, 3DS, and Xbox One combined

Sony should've secured good games from the start to convince people to buy the system. Should've let go of the propietary memory card bullshit as it cuts the price without changing the price of the console itself. With a larger install base other studios would justify investingon it and supporting it. Such a shame. Also, maybe a rrevised version could stand a chance as it could share the same market as the switch

"3DS has more games than the Vita" WRONG. As of this writing, Vita currently has 642 titles while the 3DS has 504 titles. This isn't including the psone classics and psp games that are also available on the Vita. Whenever I hear the argument that the Vita "just doesn't have games", I shake my head and look at the floor because what they're really saying is "the Vita doesn't have Nintendo games". However, I will concede that where the Vita ultimately failed was that it was too good of a system for a portable device. People don't want a PS3 in there pocket, they want fast and fun games. While the Vita definitely has the games to support that demand, Sony shot themselves in the foot by pushing the tech specs instead of what actually sustains a system: the games. Poor marketing coupled with the stranglehold that Nintendo has on the portable market means that the Vita was dead on arrival, which is unfortunate.

If the vita had gta 5 it would've sold like hotcakes

Between the PS Vita and 3DS, your basicly deciding between a pretty picture(PS Vita) or gameplay(3DS).

"Gamers want games, not graphics." I can hear a laugh from some spoiled PC Master Race from miles away

The vita wasn't a success because sony didn't even try to make it a success.

Isn't your argument a bit flawed? I mean, higher specs don't imply higher quality and/or higher development costs. Unless the licencing fees and devkits, which you didn't mention, are pricier, there is no reason to a Vita game cost more than a 3ds game, if they are made to look the same. PC usually have better capabilities than consoles and still get tons of "ugly" games, why couldn't Vita devs do the same?

Sony's home console did awesome, but not their mobile console which sold horribly in comparison. Nintendo's home console did horribly, but not their mobile console which sold awesomely in comparison. I don't get it.

One of the biggest reasons the Vita failed, as many have mentioned, was in fact the overpriced memory cards, having 3 and 4 times the cost of a standard SD. Sony has argued before, that the reason for the proprietary memory cards was to keep the security level high and to keep it from being hacked. *Problems* : 1- Not only did the Vita eventually get hacked, it would have happened far sooner if it had half the sales and half the games of the 3DS. More people adopting the system, the bigger the hacking community. Regardless of how good the security was. 2- The amount of *greed* Sony displayed with this memory card fiasco, eventually came around to shoot them in the foot. A story very similar to what happened to the Wii U. 3- They *had* a chance to change this. Sony had a chance to fix this issue, even if it was a little late. Yes. With the release of the Ps Vita 2000, they *should* have switched to micro sd. At the very least, it would have easily boosted the sales of the system. But no. Sony wanted us to buy their expensive crap.

I think if they could make an easy way to transition already developed product for PS2 or PS4 onto Vita they would have money in the bank...

reading through the comments on this video it alarms me how many mindless fanboys have come to watch EC, not a single person has posed a reasonable argument, every comment is "the vita didn't fail because I have one and I like it" or "the graphics on the vita are better so that means it was a success" worth mentioning that these comments are coming from the 8-12 year old child demographic who think that the thing in their hand right this minute cannot be bested. arguing that it's superior hardware means the ps vita was a blinding success, when. in reality it sold less than 10 million units, I would wager 20% of those sold where bought by people who wanted to remote play their ps4s. EC isn't a channel about taking sides in your silly console or handheld wars it's about looking at things from am unbiased analytical standpoint. How about instead of blindly defending a brand, how about grow some balls and actually look at things from an unbiased standpoint of your own for a change.

I think the memory card things was a huge issue for MANY people.

I think the vita was a cool console but what hurt it the most was the price and lack of games but however it is way too powerful for developers to make games for

Coming from a Vita owner idk how much more they could hurt if they just dropped the price to $150, made the memory sticks affordable, and ported great games from the PS3 and PS2(They've ported a small hand full but by playing some it looked like they didnt even try to make it look good), to lure people into buying it and playing their classic games on the go. Nintendo has been doing it since the original Game Boy. So wtf is Sony doing. If i didnt have a vita already from launch id definitely buy one if it was bundled with any GTA game or any other classic PS2/PS3 game.

I'm not sure if this counts as irony, but some of the better selling and high-rated games on the Vita are ports of 3DS games. And as everybody else has said, there ARE more Vita games than 3DS games, just no really big reasons to get the Vita. People got the 3DS for Pokémon, Kid Icarus, Mario, Zelda, etc. People get a Vita for... What, Gravity Rush? Fun game, I will say, but it's one. And it's a small game. Also, the Vita in Japan tends to almost rival the 3DS when a great game for the Vita comes out (the recent Freedom Wars is apparently a good example. It was the best selling GAME world-wide, beating USA and Europe's best combined.) but then it lulls back down because the popular Vita games have lasting ability.

'Players want games, not graphics.' Oh, how I wish more people could learn this lesson. As for the Vita, I'd hate to say it, but it was probably doomed from the get-go. Trying to deliver a quality AAA game on a handheld just seems too ambitious. Maybe it's just me, but I just can't see an Assassin's Creed or God of War game delivering the same experience on a handheld when compared to a console. And I don't think Sony ever really had the character stable or pull with handheld developers to really keep a continuous stream of games coming for it, especially compared to Nintendo. But the worst thing Sony did for the Vita in my mind was the big push for console interactivity. It makes it seem like less of a stand-alone gaming device, and more of a $300 accessory to a PS4, a belief that becomes even more damning when you consider that interactivity was pretty much all Sony talked about Vita-wise at E3 this year. A device should be able to stand on its own merits, not have to use a gimmick or attach itself to something bigger to be successful.

hacker in 2020: erm i have suggestions

I still love my vita

Vita has sold over 8 million worldwide. I don't completely agree that vitas graphical power killed vita. The shame low risk shovel wear that the 3ds gets could have made its way easily to vita. The problem was marketing and the cost of entry. Sony marketed this thing the wrong way in America, they set( or let others set) expectation way too high for this thing , giving people the impression that it was going to be exactly like the PS3 in terms of quality and catalogue. People expected every ps3 game was going to be on Vita, and they couldn't deliver. Also the marketed it as a more adult handheld, compared to their competitor who markets toward family/kids/women, and the cost of entry for the PS Vita was the same and in some cases more expensive than it was for the PS3 at the same time vita launched, which raised expectations even further.

The WiiU sort of puts a wrench in your "way better" theory because it certainly achieved your death spiral while having much lower dev costs than it's competitors. I think the main reason is Sony tried to push expensive proprietary accessories that killed consumer interest before it ever began. The whole needing Sony's overpriced memory cards to be able to play(save) games even after switching over to card based games was an insane choice. Even Apple is not that arrogant.

2:56 "Software not specs make a system" Tell them to Xbox Scorpio,they want to show it like "the most powerful console". I want games not specs god dammit.

Henkaku might actually save this system its giveng the product some real value with adrenaline comming in the near future it will be hands down the best way to experence PSP games and decent for PS1 too

The ONLY reason why i dont go out and buy a vitas is the memory card. It was the price of THREE gemes at launch for a 32GB model and is still about £60 now. A SD card fro the 3DS costs around £10 for the same size.

Coming from an owner of the SLIM, I agree. One thing VERY worth mentioning is the price of their proprietary memory cards. They were/are so EXTREMELY active in trying to push digital games on to the system, but the memory cards are expensive for the sake of being expensive. Not only is it not fair to the consumer, but their ability to hide the fact that they are trying to rip you off, is totally nullified. I like Playstation. I have a PS3, PS4, had a PS2, PS1 and have the Vita. I'm just willing to call a spade "a spade". With all that being said, I'm not sure that they CAN'T turn things around with all the money they've made from the PS4. I guess only time will tell.

'Software, not specs, make the system"... I'm going to have to remember that.

While I love the vita I do agree with a lot of what is said in this video. Only issue is that the whole idea of portable games being cheap is actually rather interesting here in New Zealand where I come from. You see, here the roles are flipped. Sony actually charges prices for their games that are reasonable for that of a portable game and that aren't too expensive. NINTENDO THOUGH. Holy CRAP ever since I first opened the nintendo 3ds eshop I have hated these guys with every fibre of my being. The Eshop prices here in New Zealand are RIDICULOUS. Many MANY games cost 80 or even 90 dollars EACH. YES, SERIOUSLY. Games like Fire Emblem and Kid Icarus as well as other titles like SMT Soul Hackers and mario 3d land will set you back 90 DOLLARS while most other games that are actually worth playing will set you back 80 bucks. At this point it has become cheaper to buy titles physically but even then the prices are pretty insane. I have only bought 2 games for my 3ds for this reason alone. The games are just too damn expensive and don't warrent the nearly 100 dollar price tag they wave about due to being games designed for a portable system! I mean, you are paying about as much money for a physical copy of a next gen home console game when you buy something off the eshop. It's insane and frankly unacceptable. On the flip side, sony prices their stuff very well. Sure a handful of games are still expensive but none of them go beyond the 65 dollar price mark. Most digital download versions of games cost about 25 to 65 bucks and indie titles are even cheaper. While 60 bucks is still leaning into expensive territory I find that for a system like the vita that price is more acceptable. Plus 60 dollars for a portable game isn't too bad in the end. 80 to 90 dollars for a portable game however, is. Even the sales on the eshop are pathetic! I open it today and see that they are advertising an 18 percent price drop on a game. Only 18 percent? You cheapskates. I know that the eshop situation isn't as bad in other places but here in NZ it is TERRIBLE. Sorry for the long block of text but I just had to get this out there. Compared to other places game prices on the vita are simply more appealing than game prices on the 3ds

This video could've been summed up in one sentence: proprietary memory for way foo much money.

I love my Vita. I don't think the graphics should've been an issue, because frankly, you don't *have* to match the graphics power of the system you're working on when you're making a game. Shovel Knight and Axiom Verge show that. But Sony needed to show more faith in their system than they did. They just kind of let it fend for itself, and that's what it did.

I'M NOT LETTING PS VITA DOWN!!!