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cjs28
10/19/19 10:32:02 AM
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Expensive memory cards?
Lack of support from Sony at E3 and such?
Barely any 1st party or heavy-hitter titles?
Smartphones?

All of the above?
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Solar_Crimson
10/19/19 10:32:30 AM
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cjs28 posted...
All of the above

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Esrac
10/19/19 10:35:38 AM
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Joeydollaz
10/19/19 10:36:06 AM
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Memory Cards Prices and NO GAMES

PSP was a true PLAYSTATION

Vita was trying to be cool and social media like

forgot GAMES
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cjs28
10/19/19 10:37:46 AM
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I wish they added PS2 games to it. Imagine a portable PS2 machine. Literally wouldve sold millions just for that
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pikachupwnage
10/19/19 10:39:17 AM
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cjs28 posted...
Expensive memory cards?
Lack of support from Sony at E3 and such?
Barely any 1st party or heavy-hitter titles?
Smartphones?

All of the above?


Plus lack of major third party support(Monster Hunter going to 3DS was a huge blow) and not getting new GTA or MGS games were real blows as well.

Also competition from 3DS.

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Tsukasa1891
10/19/19 10:40:31 AM
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From what I've heard it was not enough advertising led to poor sales. Poor sales led to a lack of must have games leaving even less incentive for people to buy one.
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cjs28
10/19/19 10:40:52 AM
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PSP did fine against the DS, which was even more popular than the 3DS. idk if competition was a factor for its demise
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Touch
10/19/19 10:41:01 AM
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Not enough titties
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cjs28
10/19/19 10:42:10 AM
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Tsukasa1891 posted...
From what I've heard it was not enough advertising led to poor sales. Poor sales led to a lack of must have games leaving even less incentive for people to buy one.

I felt like a year after it came out, Sony literally just never talked about it. Not at E3, not at PSX, nowhere. I have no clue why they gave up on it so freaking fast
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cjs28
10/19/19 10:42:53 AM
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Touch posted...
Not enough tittiea

Bruh.

Vita was the system known for anime titties. That's literally all that came out on it after 2 years of nothing
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jpenny2
10/19/19 10:43:01 AM
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The ice age!
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cjs28
10/19/19 2:05:42 PM
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bump
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Azardea
10/19/19 2:09:13 PM
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cjs28 posted...
I wish they added PS2 games to it. Imagine a portable PS2 machine. Literally wouldve sold millions just for that

They had a decent amount of ports at least, didn't help too much.
Jak, R&C, MGS 1-3, Sly, etc.
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Zikten
10/19/19 2:10:14 PM
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Sony killed it. what I heard is there was a faction at sony that for some reason sabotaged their own creation. apparently not everyone at Sony wanted to make a new hand held. I don't really get it. but had something to do with internal corporate politics. The Vita could have been one hell of a hand held if they hadn't done that
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cjs28
10/19/19 2:10:59 PM
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Zikten posted...
Sony killed it. what I heard is there was a faction at sony that for some reason sabotaged their own creation. apparently not everyone at Sony wanted to make a new hand held. I don't really get it. but had something to do with internal corporate politics. The Vita could have been one hell of a hand held if they hadn't done that

Where did you hear this?
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DeadBankerDream
10/19/19 2:11:27 PM
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Sony being bad.
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SailorGoon
10/19/19 2:13:11 PM
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Zikten
10/19/19 2:13:36 PM
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cjs28 posted...
Where did you hear this?

on this site. various conversations over the years
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DeadBankerDream
10/19/19 2:14:57 PM
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Asking Zikten for a source is the same as asking him to show you his ass.
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DarthDemented
10/19/19 2:16:18 PM
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I had a friend buy one launch day. Took it back for a refund on launch day.

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Blue_Target
10/19/19 2:22:51 PM
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Poor advertising, exclusive memory cards, no Sony first party games.

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cjs28
10/19/19 2:24:55 PM
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DarthDemented posted...
I had a friend buy one launch day. Took it back for a refund on launch day.

lol why. It wasn't *that* bad
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MC_BatCommander
10/19/19 2:40:56 PM
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It was doa
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Butterfiles
10/19/19 2:41:41 PM
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They gave up on it so quickly

After nintendo did that big 3DS price cut, sony never regained any momentum
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Vita_Aeterna
10/19/19 2:49:54 PM
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apocalyptic_4
10/19/19 2:50:41 PM
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Lack of R2 and L2 buttons killed any hope of it being a handheld console experience.

The price and games was its biggest issue as well but the machine itself was very well made for it's time.
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DarthDemented
10/19/19 2:51:12 PM
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cjs28 posted...
lol why. It wasn't *that* bad
He said it wasn't what he was hoping for. Besides launch titles were kinda meh

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cjs28
10/19/19 3:02:57 PM
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Butterfiles posted...
They gave up on it so quickly

After nintendo did that big 3DS price cut, sony never regained any momentum

That price cut happened a year before the vita even launched though
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AdmiralStiff
10/19/19 3:04:22 PM
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Sony
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meralonne
10/20/19 10:30:43 AM
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You think thats bad... how about the PSTV?

I got one for $20 at a major retailer, not even during a seasonal sale.
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pikachupwnage
10/20/19 8:58:58 PM
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The ice age

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YugiNoob
10/20/19 9:12:01 PM
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Expensive cards were my biggest buzzkill, and then smartphone games came in to seal the deal for me. It's just so much more convenient to play games on something that I'll always have with me, rather than a dedicated game console. I honestly don't give a crap about if a game is exclusive or first party or whatnot though. There were a shitload of games that I liked, like UMvC3, Soul Sacrifice, P4G, Dragon's Crown, Hyperdimension Neptunia games, Disgaea games, Gundam Breaker, Legend of Heroes, Super Heroine Chronicle, Freedom Wars, God Eater, Dynasty Warriors Gundam, Luminous Arc, Trillion, and Super Robot Wars.
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Irony
10/20/19 9:12:39 PM
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Sony in the library with a candlestick
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cjs28
10/20/19 9:23:30 PM
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I'll be honest. I only bought the Vita just for Persona 4 Golden.

For me it was worth it cuz it's literally a Top 3 of all time game for me. But other people, I realize how crazy that is lol >_> The only other games I got for it were Danganronpa and the Zero Escape games. Literally no other Vita games interested me

Though people keep telling me to play Akira's Trip >_>
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WerewolfPaws
10/20/19 9:24:24 PM
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Or just his career?
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LostForest
10/20/19 9:26:16 PM
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Esrac posted...
Nintendo.

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cjs28
10/20/19 9:26:57 PM
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meralonne posted...
You think thats bad... how about the PSTV?

I got one for $20 at a major retailer, not even during a seasonal sale.

I really wish I got one of those when they were out. Now they're more expensive online, right?
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Darmik
10/20/19 9:34:52 PM
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It's crazy that with a few tweaks they could have made the Vita a Switch before the Switch was a thing. Vita was completely capable of outputting to the TV and using a DS3 or DS4 as a controller. But Sony just...don't think of things like that.

I don't think I've ever seen a major first party abandon a system as quick as Sony dropped the Vita. Even Nintendo showed the Wii U love for a few years. The Vita OS never moved on from being cumbersome and buggy. It was just never updated.
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Abiz_
10/20/19 9:37:33 PM
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It was the memory card. You payed 250-300 for the handheld it's self. Then you had a expensive memory card on top of it with very little storage space. I got one at launch and got my moneys worth because I never had a psp. They just priced themselves out of the market. The starting line up was actually pretty decent. They just dropped it after the first year like nothing. That is Japanese companies though. If it doesn't do great in their country they will just cut off their nose to spite their face.
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Darmik
10/20/19 9:40:14 PM
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The real salt in the wound for the expensive ass memory cards is that the larger storage they have the more likely they'll just shit the bed and corrupt for no reason eventually.
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darkstar4221
10/21/19 12:27:05 AM
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It was the memory cards and Sony's anti-piracy policies. A lot PSP owners were used to pirating PSP games or getting very cheap PSP games. A lot of PSP owners were waiting for an exploit on the Vita, and when they found it wasn't going to happen anytime soon, they didn't buy it. But consumers were willing to give Sony a chance, but Sony just wanted to have full control of the system, and the proprietary memory cards was the nail in the coffin.

Had Sony simply used SD cards, the Vita would have sold a lot better.
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blablablax17
10/21/19 12:29:33 AM
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The promise of AAA "console-like" games, which Sony failed to deliver.
It ended up an indie and JRPG machine.
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R1masher
10/21/19 12:31:01 AM
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It was the warriors, they killed vita
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DeathVelvien
10/21/19 12:36:08 AM
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Basically everything.
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Dingydang166
10/21/19 12:38:30 AM
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It was my favorite handheld system. Was it a JRPG machine? Yep. But that is why I liked it. Didn't fuck around with baby games or shitty western games.
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SailorGoon
10/21/19 11:49:48 AM
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I'm bummed I'll never get a Freedom Wars 2
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