Repeatedly fucking your own customers has consequences. Ask Sega.
PSP owners were gouged for Memory Sticks, then gouged again for special Memory Sticks, then gouged for an entirely new kind of Memory Stick and digital purchases instead of physical discs, and wow hey why isn’t anyone excited about the $300 Vita?
This was not aided by how amazing the PSP was as an emulation device, and how Sony kept breaking that. Nobody wanted to buy games newer than their latest cracked firmware… let alone a whole new handheld, with harsher DRM.
It was a better looking device too. I would buy a vita right now if it played even just a fraction of the PS5 library and streamed the rest. I gave serious thought to buying one and modding it for retro games. I have never once considered the portal and I’ve had every PlayStation console except the first PS1 and their VR stuff.
I got a vita last year from a friend (he played it like a week when it was new) and I just love it! The buttons feel extremely nice and it in itself feels extremely premium and responsive
Time to watch them fuck up another handheld.
The vita could’ve been so successful if Sony wasn’t braindead
The Vita was such a nice piece of hardware. I don’t understand why just flat out ghosted their own product like they did.
Repeatedly fucking your own customers has consequences. Ask Sega.
PSP owners were gouged for Memory Sticks, then gouged again for special Memory Sticks, then gouged for an entirely new kind of Memory Stick and digital purchases instead of physical discs, and wow hey why isn’t anyone excited about the $300 Vita?
This was not aided by how amazing the PSP was as an emulation device, and how Sony kept breaking that. Nobody wanted to buy games newer than their latest cracked firmware… let alone a whole new handheld, with harsher DRM.
They could just release it today with added L/R 2+3 buttons and, even without a game card slot and only an SD slot, it would just fly off the shelves.
It was a better looking device too. I would buy a vita right now if it played even just a fraction of the PS5 library and streamed the rest. I gave serious thought to buying one and modding it for retro games. I have never once considered the portal and I’ve had every PlayStation console except the first PS1 and their VR stuff.
I got a vita last year from a friend (he played it like a week when it was new) and I just love it! The buttons feel extremely nice and it in itself feels extremely premium and responsive