How the FUCK did this shit not sell??

So did the DS

amaing dpad*
It's so good I use my vita as a PC controller via a plugin.

SCEA

without the american support, it rapidly died in the other western markets (europe, oceania) as well

Other than KI:U uprising, the DS had nothing but shitty DS sequels and shit MH games. FU is still the apex of the series.

everyone was expecting xperia go 2

Playstation fans are normie casual types that just use iphones n shit.

Yeah, that's why both sold well.

It didn't have good games to play for a long time. Not saying the 3DS didn't do the same shit either but the 3DS got it's momentum eventually while Vita was just sitting there being the indie machine. By the time it got good games it was already too late.

Also, this. The MH fanbase is bigger than one would think and Nintendo just scooped it up while Sony was fumbling with it. Things are different now but Sony fucked the Vita hard by not securing MH on their side.

after people (like me) got tricked into getting a PSP there was no chance they'd fall for it again with the PSVita. Great hardware, shit software and poor games library.

>steins;gate, the only good VN
Go fuck yourself OP. Muv Luv Trilogy is also on Vita and is better than Steins;Gate.

There are no good VNs.

Yeah and the PSP sold well too

no it didn't

Proprietary memory card.

they sold the cards for too much money instead of using normal SD cards.

>PSP
>poor library
huh?

the PSP sold over 80 million, which is far more than most nintendo consoles

The PSP already existed. PS2 ports aren't compelling software when they run worse than the original versions. Everything else is niche as fuck.

Extremely overpriced sdcards, lack of Piracy and Memory Stick Duo during the early/mid life of the Psvita.
Why bother buying a 300€ portable console when I have to buy additional 130€ sd stick if I want to have more than 2 games on the system at any given time? The lack of piracy I'm pretty sure it hurt in the long run as most people brought the psp so they could hack/mod it.

>pricetag
>proprietary memory cards
>price of proprietary memory cards
>SCEA didn't want to support it and did everything possible to sabotage it in the west
>no Monster Hunter except the worst version of the JP only MMO
That's it

Handheld gaming is for (man)children, that's Nintendo's specialty.

you're lying

>they run worse than the original versions
literally only jak and they run alright once you overclock

PSP library to me mostly felt like watered down versions of console games. If I was into monster hunter my opinion would've been very different, but I didn't like the PSP library at all and regretted getting one.

Reminder that the largest memory card for the Vita cost more then the console itself

PSP is the best handheld of all times though.

Size, price, weeb library

no games

Jak still struggles to hit 30 even if you overclock. Ratchet is mostly 30fps while the original is mostly 60fps.

>ports
>ports
>ports
Before you bring up the switch, nobody bought a Wii U but everybody bought a PS2

Nah. Wikipedia says it sold 82 Million. Still got blown out of the water by the DS, but it was still a fine handheld.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

>it's ok when Nintendo does it

I don't agree. Like I said, I like the hardware but don't like the library

>bait and switch the VN
>better than Steins;God
Imagine actually believing this

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No games and required a memory card that costed and arm and a leg.

well, lots of reasons.

>psp:
lots of every party games, lots of new/remake FF games, lots of new MGS games, god of war, katamari, wipeout, locoroco, patapon, lots of popular anime games, like Naruto, Bleach, ace combat, armored core, GTA game, Sting games (dept heaven), NIS games, Tales of games, imageepoch games, rhytm games, lots of american games that children like

>ps vita:
nothing of the above, ports, only FF exclusive is WoFF, which OVERHEATS THE GAME SYSTEM, best game is port of ps2 game, only alive jrpg series is Atelier, which lags as fuck

although i like atelier games

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ratchet is stable at 30 though. But yeah I agree that jak isn't the best collection of ports. To be fair they STILL don't emulate properly on a top end rig either, and even the PS4 version wasn't amazing, so it's still a decent way to play them.
nintendo released a xenoblade port for the 3DS that barely ran at 20fps and no one complained.

Jak 1 plays terribly.

Jak 2 and 3 are fine when indoors.

>god tier dpad - but trash analog sticks, shoulder buttons and lol back touchpad what the fuck
>beautiful oled screen - with terrible burn in and replaced with shit tier lcd
>powerful - but plagued with unplayable ports and shit tier library. 95% of which also available and usually better played somewhere else
let's not even get into prices

it had niche games and a some good ports to hold itself afloat, not to mention the absolute shit tier interface

install lolicon and overclock

Yuk! How they can still be that expensive?

>terrible burn in
every hour or so just hit the home button and you'll be fine.
Also the sticks are better than what's on the 3DS and id rather the vita arrangement than getting completely cucked out of a dpad like the switch.
What the fuck were nintendo thinking?

I already have a PSP and I don't really care about ports because I already have most of those games for my PS2
Not that ports are bad on a handheld, but when its all the handheld has to offer it kinda sucks. The PSP was so great because it had all the ports/emulation AND amazing exclusives PSP was legitimately better than the PS3 by a longshot desu

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The PSP was fucking great user, just because the PS3, PS4 and Vita all had no games and kinda sucked doesn't mean the PSP was bad.
Don't be a faggot and just shit on stuff because of the company that made it. Give credit where its due, the PSP was a top tier handheld and deserves to be recognized as such. Vita sucked a bag of dicks though

>burn in
Nice meme. I have a release day OLED and it's still fine to this day.

Lets be real here, Wii U ports might as well be new releases for 99% of the people that buy videogames.

You can't shitpost about how nobody owned the Wii U or played any of its games, and then at the same time say that no one cares about Wii U ports on the switch because everyone already played the Wii U games

No games for it. And noone would make a game for it, cause it'd be too expensive.
This is very simple user.

Pretty sure the burn in thing is a cost saving meme scheme from Sony so they could start using cheaper screens on their failing handheld without looking like they were just cutting costs

I would have bought one a long time ago if it wasn't for the obnoxiously overpriced proprietary memory cards desu senpai
Kinda glad I didn't though since it never ended up getting any games and would have just been a $300 upgrade for my PSP

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Didn't have it's normalfag bait, even for the japanese market
Sony pissed Capcom off during the PSP Go shit (something about not having consulted Capcom for the new PSP model, that's why Monster Hunter didn't come on Vita but on 3DS. It was out of spite.)
This split the 3rd parties AA devs between Vita and 3DS.

Then again none of this matter for the west. Sony is all about muh graphics movies to bait normalfags, so an under-powered console couldn't deliver actually realistic shit from big publishers or Sony themselves, yet the console was too strong to be able to develop lost cost games like you could on the 3DS. Technically, the console is a weird in-between, developing exclusives that takes advantage of it's hardware would demand PS3-tier budget and yet it still wouldn't look as good as any actual PS3 games (and PS4 was on the way)
So the west ignored the Vita even more than Japan which was used to a light AA console quality already and could adapt the workflow to such a console, that's why the Vita had actually pretty good 3rd party support from jap devs, unfortunately the anti-weeb feminist narrative from zoomers was well on it's way at that time and those games basically didn't "count" for westacuck.

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KillZone Mercenary looked as good as the PS3 ones

With a lot of cuts done to it's level design scale, enemy and script counts, with a team that's used to wielding black magic, and an artstyle that helps them a lot
Uncharted Vita barely looks as good as Uncharted 1

speaking of vita, should I get a cheap pstv to play soul sacrifice and freedom wars?

Oh op, i know your a little slow so ill just go over one by one why vita was a mistake
>expansive
>almost no western 3rd party support
>mostly jrpg
>memory card
>most game runs on a 15 frames
>people already have a psp whixh does almost everything better

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>Sony fucked it up
>overpriced proprietary memcards
>no MonHun
>literally no killer app
>Sony 1st party exclusives simply don't have the same brand power as Nintendo first party titles, this is just fact

That just about sums it up. A shame, because I really liked the hardware, and I prefer it infinitely above the 3DS, but good hardware is useless without a good library.
The Vita with 3DS' library would have been the GOAT.

nobody likes weebshit

good luck finding a cheap one

Sony is all about muh graphics and interactive movies, the handheld audience doesn't find that appealing at all and what handheld gaming is all about doesn't please the Sony audience.

Sony never stood a chance in this market.

*tips*

cope harder weeb

>"not to mention emulation"
>only mentions ports and remakes

see the problem?

Keep telling yourself that

You've missed the boat already, prices are already heading skyward, you aren't gonna find anything below $200 by midyear

going to replace my vita screen on tuesday, wish me luck

*tips harder*

seething lol

Cancers like you love onions

The Switch proves you so wrong I'm not even gonna debate a basedkid such as yourself

nogaemz
outperformed by smartphones the year after release
memory card kikery

Soul Sacrifice sucks and freedom wars is dead

can i play psp games on this easily?

doesnt sony always have 3rd party versions that are 3x cheaper? I can still remember the pricey as fuck memory card scam they copied from nintendo, but it was no biggie as you could just buy 3rd party 64 mb versions.

>shittier port for sake of portability

>Literally main talking point for Switch

Big think

Yeah, hacking it is really simple

3rd party accessory market is dying hard, and no 3rd party bothered with the vita cuz no one bought a vita

Its true you fucking retards.
Thats why no one outside of japan bought this glorified jrpg machine.

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So long as you can hack it. The latest firmwares aren't hackable for now.

The Vita memory cards have strong encryption that wasn't (still isn't?) cracked. There are adaptors that utilize the game card slot but they require hax.

I never cared for mobile devices either. it's the equivalenet of buying a dime bag from a sleazy looking guy on the corner when you have 100% pure, uncut crack cocaine at home. Also, like drugs, you dont do that shit in public.

>tfw no 3U, 4U or XX on Vita

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The problem wasn't its library, not at first at least.
The issue was it's pricing compared to the 3ds, but also on top of that, the inbuilt memory almost required people to also get an extra memory card, and in typical sony fashion wasn't just standard SD, it was some expensive proprietary thing.
So the price of the console + a memory card + the price of the games being a bit higher than 3ds too made it a little bit of a hard sell. Not to mention it eventually stopped getting a lot of support outside of Japan and is now officially dead.
I still bought one and loved it. Now i'm just waiting for a spare charger to arrive from ebay so I can see about installing CFW.

I think if sony had pushed it harder, and treated it as a main part of their line up, dropped the price and let it use standard micro SD it would've sold gangbusters.

The Vita had lots of great weebshit. But sadly most people are normalfags.

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Switch has other games than weebshit the fuck are you talking about

nobody likes weebs

your kind is literally universally despise

What’s something good to start with if I want to graduate from entry level weeb shit? I’ve only played Square shit and a few Tales games

I love my vitas!

nobody cares about your kusoge

No. You're retarded. Switch is a weebshit machine and it's doing fine and even Yea Forums has jrpgs has it's most beloved genre.

Cope harder. Anime is taking over comics and Yea Forums and there's nothing you can do against it cancer.

I love my wife Kat!

Shitch has no games.

For me, I didn' t get the Vita - even though I got like 20 PSP games - is because the Vita only has anime weeb shit.

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what's this?

All it had were ports, weebshit and indie garbage. None of the three are ever good reasons to buy a handheld for which is why the Vita massively failed.

>ctrl+f piracy
>only result
This guy gets it.

>look how retarded I am guys!
is it 2009 again?

No games
Memory card tax
Horribly unergonomic
Oled leak
False advertising

No haha switch also has their bing-bing-yahoos that appeals to a wide audience.
Thats why none degenerates here enjoy the switch.
Continue to cope you with your animu machine

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Lack of support from game developers combined with overpriced Memory sticks

No one wants to develop games with AAA graphics on a handheld that's expected to sell less and with a lower price tag.

Sony couldn't get any support from developers and you can't sell a gaming system without games. It's a shame because the hardware itself was so good.

Nobody? I bought it.

Frankly user I don't really care about the tastes of the mainstream gaming community. Life is too short to pretend to be someone you're not.

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>how did the high-price handheld device whose main draws overlap with a smartphone as smartphones were becoming popular not sale
:thinking:

Not only that but Sony themselves dropped first party support about 2 years in.

True enough. While your taste in video games is no better than the F2P whales, at least you're too insignificant in number to harm the industry.

yeah that whole memory card debacle was the sole reason i sold mine, i'd still use it if it worked with normal sd cards

I wish THIS gets ported to the Switch or something with better framerates.

fifa was honestly at least 60% of the sales
every football game in england was advertising it for a few months

>AAA graphics
Vita games were not AAA graphics though.
Sony really fucked themselves by advertising so.

I can still find them in a 65-100usd range in my poopy country. Is there anything notable on vita that can't be played on pstv?

>Switch is a weebshit machine
no its not though

yikes

>outperformed by smartphones the year after release
lmao what

>Horribly unergonomic
>Oled leak
>False advertising
elaborate

>memory cards
>price
And didn't some Sony IPs skip out on the Vita? Where was Gran Turismo? God of War only got a "mario allstars" treatment? Hello Sony, as the platform holder it is your job to support the system with exclusive games from your IPs.

Doesn't even have a UMD drive, how it is gonna read PSP UMDs let alone emulate PSP games?

digital downloads dummy

what's the ps2 port game that's so good?

Memory cards were bullshit and the game selection was crap compared to the PSP (which would have been GOAT if it had dual fucking analog). I don't want to play fucking VNs and ecchi.

>Paying AGAIN for PSP games you already have on UMD

TOP KEK

KILL YOURSELF FAGGOT

The back touch screen was shit and should have had buttons instead

the UMD drive would only make the system even more expensive

If a brainlet like myself can hack a vita to use sd2vita adapter you could too, user.

>paying for games on a PirateStation Vita

Not using Micro sd's for their memory cards and not securing a Monster Hunter game.

That's it, Sony were 2 steps away from portable domination.

What, can I just plug in an sd card to the vita without any additional hardware purchased after I hacked it, or I misunderstood that?
I'm considering hacking it, since it's pretty much dead at this point, just to play undubbed games I skipped because of no JP audio option in the official release.

>why bother having a shittier port just for the sake of portability?
Isn't this what people praise the Siwtch for? Guess it really is okay when Nintendo does it.

>below $200
I got 2 near mint

there's grips that give you L2R2

>Isn't this what people praise the Siwtch for?
Yep, that's exactly what is happening when it comes to the Switch.
I guess the difference is that Sony haven't managed to kool-aid their audience to the same extent Nintendo managed.

Look up sd2vita adapter on amazon. Its 6 USD last i checked. Plug a micro sd into it, it becomes the gamecard for the vita. You will have to hack it of course. But why wouldn't you at this point.

Sony left it to the wolves. Vita was my dream handheld but it needed higher profile games and more first party support. Just the fact that they dropped Monster Hunter was insane.

>>Horribly unergonomic
Small buttons, low and convex analogs, round pill shape. Unless you're a small Japanese woman or a midget you're going to get cramps in 20 minutes of play.
>>Oled leak
Pic related
>>False advertising
arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/early-vita-owners-can-now-claim-their-25-false-advertising-settlement/%3famp=1

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That back touch screen sounded a lot better on paper than how it was actually utilized in games (that is provided they were utilized at all).

Oh, so it's a physical adapter. Thanks, will definitely look into it especially if it's that dirt cheap.

>Isn't this what people praise the Siwtch for
No.
They praise the switch for having good, NEW games or improved ports of older games.
No one buys the downgraded games.

This has been said countless times already but should be said again:

Losing MH, the title that made PSP a hit to Nintendo.

In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if Sony struck the MHW deal with Capcom for the sole purpose of getting back to Nintendo for robbing them of MH on Vita. Vita not having MH was basically Romeo not having his Julia. They were made for each other and yet it was forbidden.

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1 that's overexposed as fuck
2 that's not "leaking" thats mura and it's completely normal in OLED, and you can't see it unless the room you're in is completely dark and you're looking at a specific shade of gray that I've only seen on MGS2 loading screens.
>best dpad ever made
>great sticks, much better than the PSP and 3DS
>much thicker than the 3DS which is an actual hand cramping machine.

>oled leaks
Shhhh dont tell them about the oled decay too

i owned my vita since the day it came out, maybe take care of your shit retard.

Go to hbg on vg. Check facebook and youtube. The trick will be finding the right firmware. 3.6 or lower.

Regarding OLED, I'd pick OLED over the cheap ass LCD Switch screen any day of the week. OLED was a great way to give handhelds an advantage over consoles in visuals.

$80 16GB proprietary memory cards.

Because Sony didn’t put enough games on it and what games they did release were developed by their B teams.

>best dpad ever made
Not him but that shit is far from the best dpad not only is it way too small but it sticks in if you're playing anything more intense than a platformer.

I pirated them all lmao

*screams in YS VIII*

these buttons look downright comical when compared to psp

it literally can't "stick in" because there's tension under, that's what makes it so good, it's almost like it uses microswitches.

user, that happens over time regardless of if you take care of it or not. It's inevitable.

So good that Sony dumped it the first chance they got.

That's okay. Vita only has VN and a few platformers.

>No one buys the downgraded games
Smash is a top seller though

It didn't sell because it's shit, it was treated like second class by Sony. Even the biggest vita games look like Japanese shovelware.

They dumped it because Vita was failing. If it was a success, OLED would've been default for handhelds.

There's a reason why Samsung uses OLED on their phones. It's superior to trash LCD.

psp's buttons were mushy as fuck though, the vita has buttons that more clicky than even the OG 3DS
it comes from the factory like that because it's a normal thing.

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They dumped it because it was expensive and it still is after 6-7 years, not because it was bad.

>it literally can't "stick in"
It can on shoddy dpads.
Thing is I would have written it off as a personal thing but I've had two vitas that were like that out of the box.

The advantage of OLED is that every game ever will look better on it. This means that Vita has an actual advantage over not only other handhelds but also consoles/PC. OLED TVs are still too expensive.

Vita really is a terrific system. The first time I held it in my hands I was fucking blown away. It already is the best handheld but with a few tweaks it could be the GOAT all around. I'm talking about the device itself here.

how? it fucking pivots over the center.

Because it was released on the wrong time when Nintendo dominated the portable market.
If they released now or new portable they would get something in return, unless they fuck it up with the expensive memory cards.

They stopped at 15. But 14 still had a psp version

I also missed the boat. I thought paying 250 was expensive, but shit would be perfect for emulation for me

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>objectively inferior, shitty ports of console games
>fuckall 1st party support
>LMFAO NO MONSTER HUNTER r.i.p. jap market
>want to save or download anything? that'll be another $100+ for a proprietary memory card with the capacity of a $20 universal microsd you filthy fucking goyim
>competent competition from 3ds and mobile market
>why didn't it sell

Truly one of life's great mysteries.

Beats me, never cracked them open and just immediately returned them.

Yeah the device itself is great. I would pick that over a big and bulky Switch with no d-pad or OLED any day of the week.

This is saying both are hacked and allows emulation. Vita is a true handheld while Switch is sort of too bulky to reach that level of comfort of Vita. Maybe the revision will fix it into something more portable.

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wow that PS VITA is huge

3DS - gaems
Vita - nogaems

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Why does it have to be a competition with you sonyfags.
You can admit that Sony fucked up.

Outside of MH, 3DS was even worse.

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Regardless of the obvious price and memory card fiasco, I think the vita was hurt by devs no exploiting the touch pad and the cameras, if it was a unique experience only available on vita at least would be more appealing, instead of just ps3 ports and some half assed shit but on a smaller screen. I feels great to use the screen instead of mashing buttons for some mechanics, and using the camera to aim in gravity rush by moving the vita felt very natural and intuitive, but from what I've played the implementation feels forced and could easily be replaced by some button input. A lot of reviewers praise Tearaway for using the hardware more, but it fellt like a really stupid childish game to me for the 2 hours or so that I tried it.

>Vita graphics volume: 0 in^3
>3DS graphics volume: > 0 in^3

Why are nincels so thin-skinned? He's right that Nintendo sucks for being cheap jews every gen. Switch isn't even 1080p. A handheld in 2019 that doesn't even go to 1080p. Wow.

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I like how this list is padded out with every last piece of shovelware on the vita.

other than the memory card thing the 3DS was just the same. KIU was the only first party game that had effort put in
did you forget all the shitty mario games? the fucking travesty that was paper mario on the 3ds?
not to mention it managed to kill fire emblem

I like how it still beats 3DS shit ass library which only had MH4U as its one redeeming game. Not to mention how every game felt like shit on 3DS due to how terrible the actual 3DS was.

>Why are nincels so thin-skinned?
user, you do realise you're bringing up Nintendo to deflect criticism from Sony right?

>even go to 1080p
lmao it can't handle 1080p without the fans going WHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

3DS - nogaems
Vita - nogaems

Deflect what? I've criticized Sony in this thread aswell. And I'll damn right criticize Nintendo for always doing minimum effort cheap shit every gen.

I had a Vita model 1 for a long time now

>No good games
>Overpriced memory cards

Remote play for PS4 is good though, for some games at least

>Switch isn't even 1080p
base ps4 and xbone can't handle that either, so kek

They literally committed suicide with Vita after it wasn't a runaway success with their failed marketing despite gamers and devs who had time to figure the device out loving it.

>And I'll damn right criticize Nintendo
Then go do it in an actual Nintendo thread instead of derailing and deflecting here. If you hadn't noticed this isn't a console war thread or a Nintendo v Sony thread, it's just about the vita.

Meruru is for constant impregnation

Stop being a sensitive bitch. 3DS had a fuck ton of shortcomings compared to Vita. And it tolerates mentioning.

My original Vita was my favorite handheld of all time. I had some shitty hacks on it.

Is getting a 2000 model now worth it? I want to be able to play PS1 games on it.

>for always doing minimum effort cheap shit every gen.
Minimum effort because they focus on games like a gaming company should?

Bitch.

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Is that why 3DS was a huge blunder in terms of games?

>Remote play for PC is good though
I wish I had learned about this sooner.

>And it tolerates mentioning.
One, that's not how you use tolerates in a sentence.
Two, again this isn't a Nintendo related thread. There's no reason to bring them up in the slightest unless you're mad about the vita being a failure.
Three, you're literally calling someone a sensitive bitch for calling you out on being a sensitive bitch.

>frogposter calling other people retards despite being the most retarded person in the thread
No one bought the vita because no one wanted to spend $60000 on a fucking memory card, retard.

Imagine being this much of a sensitive bitch because his shitty 240p toy handheld that revolved entirely around a 3D gimmick was called shit. KEK

the switch really doesn't have a lot of jrpgs right now. more are coming, though.

>Nintendo cocksuckers will defend this

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Not him but do you even own a vita or do you want to shitpost about Nintendo?
Because there's like 50 other threads you can do the latter in.

Go start a console war somewhere else, ESL-kun

took too long to crack and people didnt have smart phones in the psp era and by time the vita came out everyone had ipads and iphones and the vita didnt really have a place no more,same shit happened to the wii u.

and due to poor sales game production was not great

The vita had nothing but the most weeb of weebshit, the shit that only appeals to massive waifufags who can ignore bad gameplay.

I own a Vita and it absolutely raped 3DS in every way. Shame Yea ForumstendoGAF is too high on Nintendo's dick to admit it.

>stops at 720p, the highest resolution known to console users

unironically, a lack of games, in fact, i used my jailbroken one mostly as an emulator machine

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you can't tell the difference when you're close, you're supposed to see those large resolutions from a high distance not in front of your face.

I wouldn't mind it being a weebshit machine but it didn't have any of the good stuff the psp had like the Bleach Soul Carnival games. It was just VN trash and other shovelware.

I had a friend mod mine and I played a roaring total of 3 games on it
it just didn't have a good enough library

in comparison I played the shit out of my DS with r3 cart

No it doesn't, the 3DS defeats it in every genre.

Portable gaming consoles is a niche, even more so now than 15 years ago since everyone has a smartphone. The only people who buy Switch's are 10 year olds and 30-40 y/o manchildren.

>3D graphics on the 3DS
>2D graphics on everything else

while the 3ds resolution is bad I've endured much worse for the sake of good games

You know, vita isnt actually that big

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So you're just here to shitpost.
Use this thread, it was shitposting from the start.

It survived in a market with the DS which was the third worlder piratefag handheld of choice

>you can't tell the difference when you're close
I can tell a 1440p phone from a 1080p phone with ease. You're saying I can't tell when it turns into literal pixel resolution?

It loses in every genre except the genre that MH was in.

Sony fucked up but the mistake wasn't in the Vita's design. It is honestly one, if not the best, handheld ever made. Sony just cucked themselves and their big titles to other developers.A new MH, some Resident Evil ports, spice on a GTA and you have golden sales.

ok you convinced me Vita fucking RAPES 3DS
where i can buy new Vita?

buy OLED used, hack it, play all shit for free

Agreed. It was a case where they had a good product, but they failed to market it competely. This is a failure on sales and not production.

Because Sony gave up on it almost immediately.

I think it was one of those things when by the time it launched, they realized it was never going to sell as the PSP audience had moved to smartphones instead.

Still, Sony could've atleast put a Gran Turismo title on the damn thing. It's like they just stopped caring.

>used
fuck no

retinalet

Tha Gran Tourismo has literally been incapable of producing a decent game without reusing asstes from the PS2 until recently, and even that is severely gutted.
Why do you think it was ever within the capacity of the GT team to develop a portable game?

It seems switch owners more forgiving for shitty ports with 360p res and 20fps, unlike vita users, who also played those games before on their ps3/4.
youtube.com/watch?v=ceu5QwRMDx4

I would've been more than happy with just a GT5 port. Even in slimmed down format.

>Trying to sell a handheld to a console crowd
Geez, I wonder what could have gone wrong?

Vita 2 had joke hardware, plus they always had the shitty memory cards
then there was sony at the time being comically shitty and mostly abandoning it within a few years
She's (former) royalty user, she's not letting anyone but high prizes near her.
Rorona's the one that cooked up an alchemy baby.
Though I suppose out of the arland girls she's the most likely since Totori and Mimi are a couple.

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There are no good video games.

>better fighting game library
>better sports library
>better platformer library
>better rhythm library
>better racing library
>better FPS library
>better TPS library

the Vita itself is mediocre in like half of these genres, but still has the 3DS beaten

tendies really eat any shit up as long as they have the Nintendo logo on them

>letting
She's finna be used on the cock carousel whether she likes it or not

>BUT MY HANDHELD HAD GOOD GRAPHICS!!!
If anyone wanted Graphics, they wouldn't purchase a handheld. This should have been clear when the GameBoy's monochrome screen was beating the far more advanced competition.

there are no videogames

>finna
pretty much every atelier is a walking demigod bythe time their game is over, let alone 10+ years later
good luck

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>better fighting
debatable since 3DS has an excellent sf4 port
>better sports
probably
>platformer
no, not even close, not when 3DS has two Mario games and DKC
>better rhythm
maybe but both have hatsune miku and 3DS also has theatrhythm
>racing
draw, wipeout and MK7 are both excellent
>FPS
I guess vita since I can't even think of any on 3DS
>better TPS
draw since 3DS has RE Rev1 while Vita has Rev2

Doesn't mean they don't crave the dick every now and then. Especially the one you posted.

>Lives together and travels together with a motherly doll for over 8 years
>Mysteriousu ends with her getting her human body back and then they give each other "massages" where they nearly cum
right

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MvC3 is very good

>spends half the game begging for Harol's attention
Hmm...

>better platformer library
>better rhythm library
Wrong
>better FPS library
>better TPS library
These genres suck on handhelds, yes, even Kid Icarus was shit.
>better fighting game library
>better sports library
>better racing library
Which is the exact same thing that made the PSP survive against the DS, if only Sony had invested in those genres instead of trying to get all the PS3 owning retards.
If Sony had guaranteed that and advanced towards the DS-line control over RPGs, Puzzles, they would have had a chance. But instead of nabbing some Square's support from the 3DS they just went and lost fucking Monster Hunter. And you people cheer the terrible behavior that led to Sony making these mistakes because of fucking graphics.

>muh all atelier girls are lesbians
kill yourself yurifag

nah fuck you. vita suck because it 10 times worse than PSP, but 3ds is 100 times worse than NDS. Vita is port/Atelier/VN machine, but 3ds doesn't even have ports, ateliers and VNs.

if it had had a proper video out like the PSP did it would still be the uncontested best handheld
it's still way more portable than the switch

>like JRPGs
>get a Vita
>it turns into my dream handheld
I still have a slew of games on my Vita I need to start. Feels good.
>tfw all the available Disgaea games

>Kid Icarus was shit.
1 stick.

I mean, wouldn't you? He's probably the most attractive male sophie ever meets. I was pretty disappointed he didn't return later but joke fat friend does.
Where did I say ALL atelier girls are lesbians? I only said sophie and totori are gay. Rorona, meruru, firis, and the twins are all probably straight.

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why is this game like 200 bucks...

It's not like they re lesbians, it's just every other girls want to fuck MC of every game to death

This. Even the mediocre Vita beat 3DS

>she's a lesbian, but she wants this boy too

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Cory (mysterious) is pure

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but all disgaea games are the same. if you play latest one, there are no reason to play previous ones. 4 on vita is good enough though.

Sony needed to keep the multiplats flowing. They suddenly stopped the FIFAs and 2Ks and other popular 3rd party titles. It's always done well on the weeb front, but why wasn't a game like SKATE, or Stick of Truth ported to it? The hardware is strong enough for a portable version of these titles, so why did Sony just give up?

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what do you want me to say, she's bi? i'd fuck harol if given the chance

Corneria a cute! She can refill my items any day, if you know what I mean.

there are no atelier cory game

>cheap pstv
Good luck with that. Also not sure Soul Sacrifice would even work with the on-screen touch inputs it has.

That's pretty gay

3DS has Ace Attorney which is the only worthwhile VN series. Also Atelier is weeaboo shit.

Every Disgaea is the same as the last the same way every sequel is. You can't actually be this stupid, user.

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The best FIFA I've played.

Why is the switch selling then? It’s literally just a shitty 2013 era tablet with 2 garbage controllers glued on.
Nintendo can do no wrong though

because it has fun video games

>because it has fun video games
which means the Vita failed because it didn't have game support. has nothing to do with iphones and tablets.

Have you ever actually played an atelier game? They're actually mechanically very good and the vn/sol stuff is pretty secondary.

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>The Vita memory cards have strong encryption that wasn't (still isn't?) cracked
They very recently completely cracked memory card encryption and signing. It is possible to manufacture aftermarket memory cards now that would work even on vanilla Vitas.

Sony's bullshit decisions. There was no reason for Vita to die the way it did.

>3ds has Ace Attorney
GBA has Ace Attorney. NDS has Ace Attorney. Every good AA game was on nds and on accesible on every platform now, including phones AND ps vita

And, you can say "atelier weeaboo games", but actually this is hardcore crafting grinding skillful games that takes lots of planning and skill, but fuck you anyway

Shit chart. Sophie is cancer.

>no monhun
>normalfags had smartphones already so no need for a dedicated media device
>sportsfags only play sports games on console
>overpriced proprietary memory cards with no 3rd party alternative, which artificially inflated price significantly
>no system seller games (like the PS3 before it had demon's souls, except no demon's souls ever came)

All the major points that usually sell Sony consoles were missing. If we're being honest, it was only a good system for niche interests. There wasn't anything that really hit mass-market appeal that was also of quality and that was also desirable on a handheld. It basically had no audience beyond the niche. If you developed niche games then the vita was a nice place to be, but otherwise you were fucked, and it shows with how every major dev had given up on the vita by the end of 2016.

Like what? What fun game is there on the switch that’s not le Mario or le Zelda?
Not a port either since you’re all shitting on the vita for being a port machine

DD and SoJ are only on 3DS and are good games.

same here, I basically used it for castlevania and emulators after finding I didn't care for the games put out on it.

I haven't been shitting on the vita, I actually got one (though I somewhat regret it due to how shoddy vita 2 hardware is) and enjoyed a good few games on it.
>What game besides the two most popular games on it
well i have smash and xenoblade, and I'll probably get octopath in a bit, though that's just me personally
there are a bunch of other ones most other people would enjoy
Too bad, she's officially the most popular girl and you can make a statue in her honor.

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I'm guessing odin sphere

>conform to the mass opinion reeeeee
Ah, that explains your zealotry for such a throwaway waifu

Sony had fired everyone who knew why the PSP worked. They had already given up and accepted the handheld market was to die in face of mobiles, you have to remember that at the time even the 3DS was not selling.

I mean, I do have a bias towards sophie as she was my first atelier but at least as far as their characters go I do like all the others, I just like her and her in-game relationship with plachta a lot.

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>Sophie was my first atelier
Filtered. Don't respond to me ever again.

I love you too, anonymous.

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What kept the 3DS alive? Even with the price drop, and what's keeping the Switch alive?

Games people want.

mario, pokemon, monhun, some dragon quest, the usual things.

Switch I think was mostly wii-style hype, now it's cooling off that the games are slow trickle once more.

>$250

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Soul Sacrifice port to ps4 FUCKING WHEN.

Funny how that happens.

Also I'm currently replaying Darkest Dungeon on mine rn. I bought the Borderlands 2 edition one and the only downside to it is it can be slow as fuck. Long load times between levels for games like borderlands 2 and XCOM. Games off of cartridges run better imo. If they upgraded the hardware to be more powerful, and released a few more games for it, it'd be a shame not to have it.
>Also P4G, tearaway, LBP are comfy as fuck

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You can tell the difference more up close, retard-kun

It was super-expensive for a handheld just like the PSP had been, but unlike the PSP, it didn't have the benefit of easy piracy within months of release. The new and even more ridiculous proprietary memory cards and their insane price didn't help either. On top of all this, aforementioned easy piracy on the PSP made devs very slow to jump on board since they were largely expecting a repeat performance.

a handheld needs more than just ports.
the psp had original entries in top franchises.

The price of the memory was a joke and there were few games they took advantage of the double sticks.

what for? i mean, this whole thread masturbating to Soul Sacrifice Delta game, but i ve bought Vita and played played lots of game for last 2 years, and played Soul Sacrifice for just 5-10 hours, because it's pretty boring. It has cool design, atmosphere, but gameplay is boring, battles are easy, with some bosses being HP sponges. Even God Eater is more interesting, i think

If sony came out right now with a 200 dollar handheld that had a slide out controller like the psp go but was actually comfortable. Could play every ps2 classic in the Ps store and all ps2 games were priced only 5.99-9.99. Would you get it?

poor marketing and lack of first party support killed the vita.

it's not a lost cause though, think of the vita as a super psp once you hack it. it's a very capable handheld device.

>memory cards were overpriced!
>oh yeah? well, the fans figured out pirate memory cards and it only took until after the platform was dead, so it wasn't really a problem at all!

>hands cover the speakers

Fake news

actually your hands cup around the speaker holes, so they amplify the sound

It really was a great system, WAY better than the Switch can ever dream to be but it has two damning flaws:

1- Those buttfucking memory cards. 5x the price of a standard memory card, yet 0.7x the speed are you serious?
2- Despite being made for digital distribution, phsyical was the only way to not get completely assfucked by the operating system in addition to the unfair prices of the memory card.

And those are valid reasons to never buy a Vita. Both of which wrought the 3rd and final reason:

3- it turned into yet just another peripheral that Sony dropped support of unoficially within two years and officially within seven.

Had such great potential shame about how companies will always give in to greed though.

it makes the audio sound like muddy garbage

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No games

The speakers aren't there, you fat autistic fuck.

What?

cope

no one bought it because no games

Persona 4 Golden, I think.

Purse Owner 4 Golden

why is Yea Forums so passionate about hating the vita?

It was a 400 dollar machine.
It had nothing but ports.

imagine being video games

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It even had EDF on it too. There's no reason it would've failed if the memory cards weren't so expensive and if the marketing for this handheld was also there. It probably could've done 3DS lifetime numbers if not more and maybe would've still had support today. But that's all just what if's so you can't really say for sure.

I want to fuck Shallote

looks like my collection but with worse taste

>moe chronicle
jesus christ

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Seething sour grapes

Honestly, it's just compared to the power of each system. Vita ports look massively fucking downgraded, look at Blue Reflections and Atelier games vs their console counterparts, it's almost like comparing DS ports to it's console gen. Switch can, using some Nintendo magic, usually pull off around 30 fps and some downgraded visuals for a lot of multiplats (Doom 2016 comes to mind).

>pantsu quest
>pantsu quest
>pantsu quest

the vita failed because it didn't have traditional JRPGs like the DS and 3DS did

Wrong.

It's still kinda supported, it got catherine full body in JP, and it'll probably just have the PS4 english script patched in pretty easily.

3DS didn't have any good ones either.
bravely shit was the only one

sure man

resetera.com/threads/atelier-lydie-suelle-official-ps4-vs-switch-vs-vita-comparison.11517/page-2
It's retardera, but it does contain pictures of what I'm talking about.
Switch is obviously worse than PS4, but look at the fucking difference between Switch and Vita.

just wear bluetooth headphones or airpods.

I'm serious

That would be a good solution if the range for it wasn't hot shit.

I've had a Vita since 2015, played a bunch of games. Great handheld, probably my favorite. Still have plenty to play as well

to be fair the other vita atelier games look much better than that too

I'm still pissed hollow knight didn't get a vita port. it would have looked great on that oled screen because it's so dark.

Eh, the darkness of HK would only make the burn in more noticeable.
Plus the thing is way too small for it.

>burn in more noticeable
I dont have burn in

What is Dragon Quest

yeah someone posted pics of that, what the fuck happened with this one?

You're an absolute nigger if you think the 7 remake is better than the original
and 8 is just a shit port of the phone version running at a nice 15fps

DQ11

bad ps2 port of 8? or never translated 11? :D

never came out in english so it doesn't matter, it'a also not as good as 8. SQ has completely lost the plot with DQ. They don't give a shit because japs are mongoloids and they have even worse brand whoring than mutts.

thank fuck for the switch. Besides online features and shit, it's an much superior version of the vita concept.
>much MUCH more comfortable to hold
>full set of triggers
>stronger exclusive content (I still love you Gravity Rush) while also being a good port machine too
>TV display capability out of the box

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Every OLED vita does and you can't stop it.

etrian odyssey 4-5-x-U1-U2
Rune Factory 4
Shin Megami Tensei 4-4F-SH-Deep Strange Journey

although all etrian odyssey and all 3ds smt games is actually the one same game, but i like those dungeon crawlers

>never came out in english so it doesn't matter
Most vita games didn't either.

press the home screen once an hour and you'll be fine. I'll take it over a low res eye cancer TN display that looked bad when it was 3.5 inches, let alone stretched out.
and yes I own a N3DS XL and Vita.

Is it still possible to buy and download games on PSP thought the download list?

I'm thinking of using it again.

>and Vita
Not an Oled one if you think you can fix it. It's an inherent flaw in all Oled screens.

>full set of triggers
with no dpad lmao
Ok I'll bite.
EO 3 is better than every sequel on the 3DS. and I've played them all.
RF 4 is worse than RF3
SMT4 was fucking trash and 4A is only ok. 3 still shits on all of them. Atlus doesn't care about mainline SMT anymore and Yea Forums only liked 4 because some shitty journo couldn't beat minotaur.
Also not a single EO game or SJ is as good as the dark spire on the 3DS, which is a damn shame because it never got a port or follow up.
yes and you can prevent burn in by refreshing pixels that are static for a long time, ie by pressing the home button every once in a while. Stop being an obtuse mongoloid.

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Look at the library. It's all games targeting pedophiles.

It was cursed. This system really had it all. It was like a dreamcast 2 for me. I should buy a second one before they get rare.

I have literally never seen a Vita with burn in.

>RF 4 is worse than RF3
I love the series but I don't see how this can be the case.

worse whores
fag MC
somehow worse combat

>Nintendo just scooped it up while Sony was fumbling with it. Things are different now but Sony fucked the Vita hard by not securing MH on their side.

They had monster hunter for the vita but it was locked to China and Taiwan

basicaly, any new sealed vita should come with hackable fw atm

>press the home screen once an hour and you'll be fine.
You know that doesn't work right?
OLED burn in damage is irreparable unlike LCD screens and they're far more susceptible to it.

Dungeon Travelers 2 is unironically as good as Etrian Odyssey. Prove me wrong.

Vita and 3DS are fucking great systems if you're into DRPGs.

Only a good handheld if you're a massive weeb. Like the kind who would unironically play Underage Panty Quest type games. Which is why I love the Vita

I found both the artstyle and music to be unappealing, both of which are important for keeping me invested in a drpg for a long time
but I'm willing to accept that it's mechanically superior. At least as long as you don't make the mistake of subclassing characters before you've met them all

Too many weeb games, not enough actual games.

This. Like Nintendo always says, games sell consoles, not the other way around.

The only correct and canon answer if you're not blinded with your shipperfaggotry is that they're all asexual and married to alchemy.

Retard

Thank you for proving my point.

>better rhythm library
In what fucking world does the 3DS outdo the vita in terms of rhythm games?
3DS gets you project mirai, rhythm heaven and taiko in terms of decent games, vita gets you project diva, DJMax, IA/VT, a much better taiko game and superbeat xonic
Unless you have a disproportionate love for rhythm heaven there's no debate here

that was frontier and it doesn't count

Are you actually this retarded or are you just pretending?

no retard
burn in only happens after a set time
refreshing the screen every hour is fine. I have my old galaxy s2 and it still only slightly has burn in from the status bar, the vita has a much better panel than that too.
stop posting about things you poorly understand.

Literally didn't. Autism.

Any games that really make use of touch controls are incredibly awkward on the Vita and Golden Abyss literally can't be completed on a PSTV

lol sure

why can't it be?

>$250 for a handheld, and $300 for the 3G, which was the price of a PS3 at the time
>Required PROPRIETARY memory cards which were up to five times more expensive than SDHC cards at the time.
>Features like remote play either didn't work as promised or were missing
>A bunch of native PS1 games were not natively supported, requiring workarounds
>Rear touch screen instead of L2 and R2 for emulation was shit
>Terrible AAA games

There's a puzzle that requires the Vita to be held to a light source to pass

My hacked switch is more than enough

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nintenfags defaming it and talking shit about it, claiming that console gaming on the go would never work. these same fags cream their pants now at that same prospect and beg devs to port games to their toddler tablet at 360p resolutions.

Not him but the theatrythym games alone blow them out of the water.

i play delta on my pstv with no issues.

the vita couldn't even run ports of ps2 games properly, lmao

damn I hope mgba can support that for boktai

it can run them just fine if the devs take the time to optimize it. Killzone and Uncharted both look and play like ps3 games and were launch era titles.

>burn in only happens after a set time
Which occurs at a faster rate on OLED screens and can be permanent, what aren't you getting here?
On top of that there's the mura effect.

Why are you so adamant in trying to convince others that the vita is perfect?

Are you baiting or just ignorant?

user, you didn't even know those games existed.

I did, hence why I said only decent games
I see them in the same way I see the persona dancing games, mediocre rhythm games that only appeal to fans of their respective series

>nintenfags defaming it

lol /vitagen/

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At least the Switch ports are playable have you seen Borderlands on vita?

most adults don't give a shit about handhelds and I wouldn't give a kid something that expensive that could drop and break

>decent games
Then why list superbeat xonic?
It's mediocrity incarnate.

You do realise that games can be fan service and good right.

Handheld gaming got hit hard by phone gaming.

Because it's a far better rhythm game than project mirai or theatrhythm for instance, or even IA/VT from the vita side
Not denying that, but personally those games weren't enjoyable for me and I feel that wouldn't be the case if I actually cared for their associated series

Weebshit was out of hand.

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>for me
Key words there. You not being able to enjoy them doesn't mean they were bad games. Unless of course you want to say that IA/VT was terrible because I didn't get any enjoyment out of the music or fanservice.