PlayStation Vita | Sony's Ambitious Handheld & Why It Failed

[@TNVGAMING]

_Welcome Back Everyone!_ You guys voted, & I listened! Today we're looking back on PlayStation Vita; it's life on the market and why the system become a commercial flop in 2 of the 3 global territories! Do me a favor and *LIKE* the video if you like it, *DISLIKE* it if you don't and *SHARE* the video around so others can see it! As always, feedback and suggestions are always welcome, and *KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR MY NEXT POLL.* I have _several_ video scripts finished, it's just up to you guys in which order they come! Also, please consider supporting my channel on _Patreon_ ! 4K video is getting more and more difficult for me to edit on my aging rig, & I think it's past-due for some upgrades. $1 is all I'm asking, and if you would like to see additional tiers made with perks to match, message me directly and I'll come up with something to make it worth your while! C'ya next time around! - t.

[@DrGrant-kc4ot]

Vitaboyzzzzz

[@dkik2916]

Watching this on my hack vita make me feel kind of guilty, however here in Brasil the prices of games are obscene! A used fat vita cost more then $200! A switch lite $500! Very nice video friend i love my vita and i do also have a new 3ds, vita is far better in my opinion!

[@vincenzomario3196]

I realize I'm kinda off topic but do anybody know of a good website to stream newly released series online ?

[@terrencekohen445]

@Vincenzo Mario Try Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

[@terrellkristopher3091]

@Terrence Kohen yup, I've been watching on flixzone for months myself :D

[@stevestation2621]

The PS Vita commercially failed but in the end almost everyone who owns one will tell you that it’s the best handheld they’ve played =)

[@ElAlex214]

Amen!!!

[@RasLion]

Until i played the switch then put the vita in a drawer

[@ElAlex214]

DAVID T to be honest the vita is very capable of running tripple a games like the switch, its bad marketing strategy & high price memory killed it. Unfortunately the switch has great exclusives so in that regards. I would agree with you that the switch is more appealing but hey the vita came out 5yrs earlier than the switch, graphically speaking and performance wise is right there with the switch. Its just a shame that sony let it die without even trying hard enough, the only reason why is not completely dead is due to the japan market so we are able to get more games.

[@soulripper31]

Lol dude, the Vita is nowhere near as powerful as the Switch. Most AAA games on the Vita ran like crap (Borderlands 2, Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Assassins Creed 3: Liberations, etc.)

[@160sharp]

soulripper31 they still had it though, and enjoyed all the games you mentioned btw we're's assassins creed for switch? 🤔

[@buster5283]

Since the PS Vita basically died in the U.S., if they would make another powerful handheld like the PS Vita but with better advertising and maybe cheaper memory cards, then more developers will make more games for it. I would really like to see at least a portable version of gta San Andreas or gta 4 for it since gta vcs and gta lcs were released for the PSP. Also I hope that if this does happen, that EA will release a portable version or two of Star Wars battlefront or battlefront two (the older battlefronts) and the good need for speed game like nfs most wanted on the PS Vita. I honestly don't care that much about graphics though as long as the games run smoothly.

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

They should just use normal micro sd cards, vitas card being proprietary was one of the killing blows.

[@Neilos-sd6ti]

They where and still are quite expensive

[@buster5283]

@@Neilos-sd6ti The only games those affected most were tiny indie games and Phantasy Star Online 2 because those were digital only. Most average people buy games on physical media and use a carrying case to store a few games and the ps vita itself inside of. Most people were still going to Walmart or Gamestop or Best Buy to buy AAA games or most common games in physical format at the time anyway. I am willing to bet that most people never considered buying full size games in digital only format with the sd cards for 3ds so I am tired of people acting like the price and size of the ps vita memory cards didn't make sense. They are not designed with download only in mind to begin with. They added that later with xbox 360 and ps3. I swear the ps2 and xbox generations started the crybaby generation of gamers. No wonder my brother turned out horribly. Game developers got lazier, the gamers became more like crybabies, and it only got worse with ps3, and ps4 eras. PS1 and every console in the 1990s operated with the same storage and concept idea for saves as the psp and ps vita. I don't know how hard it is to understand that Sony is both a forward looking and stuck in the past company at the same time. Large capacity memory cards only just started being made in general during the 3ds and ps vita era so storing 3+ GB games on them seemed stupid due to having to carry around 2-3 memory cards to have 10 games on digital only format. 128 GB memory cards at the time were a new concept and so every company that made them: Sony's proprietary cards and other compabies charged $100+ for them; the same as Samsung and Sandisk are doing now with their 512 GB and 1 TB sd cards.

[@AVAL2775]

So basically sony treated the system like the red haired step child While true fans of the system embraced and showed care, and will keep it alive even after its end of life thrkugh hacking

[@unicorntomboy9736]

At least the vita gave us new IPs like gravity Rush and Tearaway, both awesome games! Btw, you do great looking and professionally produced videos with excellent care and quality, keep up the great videos

[@TNVGAMING]

Gentlemen Gamer Thank you. 🙂 I appreciate your kind words.

[@bingbongjoel6581]

Gentleman Gamer I’ve never even heard about those games, but they look awesome and fun. This is why I kinda hate exclusives.

[@TheFirstGentleman]

Greediness and not customer satisfaction was the downfall of the vita. Commercial failure but the community goes HARD for this thing. It is really good and I still enjoy mine.

[@skinhead-ej8ff]

I don't think it failed necessarily, it just didn't do as well as they thought. Look at the amount of games released (yes there are vita games) and they even ported over their heavy hitting franchises. People who understood the Vita fell in love with it, and praise the little device. If you're thinking about getting one in 2018, do it, Even just to play uncharted golden abyss, kill zone and little big planet. Also it can stream from your ps4 so you could play the likes of yakuza, horizon zero dawn, GTA v, battlefield 1, or any other game you may have on your ps4. It was just too ahead of its time.

[@underwaterdick]

I just did exactly this last month.... truly great machine and I had to have one. Got it imported brand new from Japan and treated myself to some amazing titles. Sadly the memory cards still cost a fortune! I still cant explain to others how great that machine is. Playing Killzone, LBP, MGS2+3, Uncharted, NFS on a handheld is incredible, especially as I would say it is like having a PS3 in your pocket. The original PSP was many years ahead of its time, as was the ps3. PSP had video, music, internet browser, full gaming years before ipods became that popular and long before that all turned into phones.... PS3 wiped the floor as a media centre, Blu ray, internet browser, Love film (netflix), remote play music and films off an external hard drive via the internet, playstation TV (come on, that was an amazing thing, to record live TV long before TVR's were popular). The Xbox 360 had none of those features at that time, and a comparable PC would have cost a lot more. These days they are all pretty standard features in tech, but back then it was way before its time.

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

Here is the thing, all that is useless if you do not have a PS4 like me. Neither am I interested in buying a PS4. Luckily, you can hack the Vita and stream PC games on it. Also, Vita has some really good native games. So thats always great.

[@fatrown3]

The psp was the iPhone before the iPhone. Apple sort of innovated by adding phone services and 3G/4G, But the heavy lifting was done by sony with the PSP.

[@osvaldot2257]

Great video. I'm about to finish Muramasa on my Vita. Such a great handheld, I really feel bad for the short life and low new releases in the US.

[@itsaxel8088]

Very well made video. So sad the vita is dead :'( had the amazing Psp but skipped the psvita bc of the expensive memory cards.

[@iesousdark]

itsAlex64 vita is not dead. just look at this year game releases. 13 sentinels aegis rim, stardew valley, shakedown hawaii, pixel noir, etc.

[@itsaxel8088]

Ulruk The Obliterator ik indie games and 3rd party are still supporting it but Sony doesn't make anymore exclusives. They dropped a baby out in wilderness to die. Even Nintendo's 3ds had a mediocre launch and Nintendo stuck to their guns and supported it all the way.

[@iskootsmoos7950]

Ulruk The Obliterator stardew valley is on switch

[@itsaxel8088]

Iskoots Moos exactly. Plus, sd cards are pretty cheap compared to the Ps vita memory cards.

[@itsaxel8088]

johnyGrizzle and you're pirating games? Nice

[@Sebbz]

I didn't know about the Vita before 2 years ago. Today I own 2 of them. Great system I use mostly for ps1 games and exclusives. 1 of my devices is running a custom firmware while the other 1 is running the latest firmware. Great video TnV!

[@psvitaroundup6940]

Cool piece, if somewhat redundant given the huge number of articles already up on the subject. Would have been better if you could have grilled some Sony execs or got the dirt from grumpy developers! Next, how about focusing on how the Vita soldiers on today, with no love or support from Sony? Great indies, a stream of Japanese titles and sufficient sales to keep developers interested.

[@Alfamirux]

Great job on your format man, you did your research congrats

[@Lasheem]

The PSP was just a different type of breed. PS Vita lacked games, marketing, etc.

[@SataniaMcDowel]

COLTRANE there's around 2000 games and counting...lack of games?? Really??

[@psp420bam]

I am happier with vita than I was psp overall with the exception of missing key titles psp had like gta

[@BluSpykz]

It's my favourite console; I've had it since a week after it was available in the UK, and my library is growing constantly. I have 2 games preordered for 2018 - Rainbow Moon, and Rainbow Skies - and waiting on 2 games announcing localisation (Persona 3 Dancing, Persona 5 Dancing) - and my eye on half a dozen or more further games including Hawaii Shakedown, Steins;Gate Elite, Pixel Noir and so on... On top of games I've already bought this year including Digimon, and Secret of Mana. Tl;dr - sure, the Vita was a commercial bust, but it's an absolute gem. Sony had no idea what they had, but the fans of the Vita did... 6 years later, and Nintendo's new baby is beginning to outsell PS4 in Japan, I don't know if Sony will want to ignore that forever... #PSV2? #PSP3?

[@Parallelepiped2]

That was a great overview. I love my Vita, it just feels very natural to play games with it.

[@chrisdodd4014]

I played my Vita until I had pixels in the screen started to die. I decided to get rid of it in 2016 so that the hardware would still have some value. I was going to buy another one last year then the Switch came out so I got one of those instead.

[@ishe_we_zimbabwe]

360p Squad! Great analysis Tristan. The main reason the PSVita failed is because of the lack of advertisement and positive recognition. If I hear a click what it remind me of? The Nintendo Switch. If a hear a strange Japanese girl saying 'Playstation' it reminds me of PS4. What is there to remind me of the PSVita? Oh yeah, *NOTHING* . It's like Sony wasn't even trying with the PSVita. After the success of the PS2 Sony got their pride all tangled up. But they managed to turned a negative situation into a positive situation and even surpassed the sales of Xbox 360 last minute! In 2015 they could have turned the situation of the PSVita around but now with release of the Nintendo Switch it's just too late to have a last minute Victory.

[@dennythomas730]

I think of my vita as a portable ps3 with touchscreen. I think of switch as a tablet with removable controllers and no apps with very few games in my interest so far but yet its sales are good

[@ishe_we_zimbabwe]

Denny T If it doesn't have that suite your interest that doesn't mean that it has nox games. PSVita was a half-baked system which Sony didn't put any effort in. Nintendo Switch is far better than the PSVita. Also the Nintendo Switch is selling more because it is being advertised unlike the PSVita.

[@yournightmare9999]

Denny T yeah switch is tablet with removable controllers with shitty colours screen really good for door holder

[@ishe_we_zimbabwe]

Your Nightmare This comment is extremely retarded. You clearly don't own a Nintendo Switch.

[@ishe_we_zimbabwe]

Windjammer Enomoto So I'm a 'Nintendrome' because I have an interest in the Nintendo Switch? Have you not heard of something called an opinion?

[@ryantheanimator1156]

Still have my psvita and 3DS XL side by side. well protected with hard case. I remembered the psvita used to get tremendous praise back in 2012 when it first came out, and seeing game with (almost) ps3 graphic on a portable handheld system back then was mind-blowing to me! It's a shame not many people, specially Sony itself, couldn't see its potential and now it got overshadowed by the Switch.

[@hotrob4000]

I like the host. He seems to be honest and unbiased. Great job. I still enjoy my ps vita.

[@TheDatabaseNetwork]

The PlayStation Vita is a story of a handheld that came at the right place, but at the wrong time.

[@OHCAM5]

Not really. It wasn't when it came out that killed it.

[@rendyajadech1957]

10:16 ps 20th anniversary theme 💖

[@wirrexx]

Love this! Do you think there’s a chance for psv2 or psp2?

[@TNVGAMING]

Wisam Odish Sony's crazy enough to do it, but I'm doubtful. With PS4 / PS4 Pro being so successful, and PS VR being so new I don't see Sony willing to pull resources from those three platforms to support a fourth. But who knows?

[@wirrexx]

TnVGaming let’s hope so! I still feel that the portable market is unfinished business for Sony!

[@SiCVoltage]

I had to subscribe. Such a great opinion that doesn't go all fan boy. But also tells like it is. I just love how your knowledge was presented. Very good sir very good.

[@iesousdark]

dat welcome park music tho.

[@TNVGAMING]

Can't make a PS Vita video without it xD

[@mutalix]

Lmao! Everytime I did a system restore, forced to go through that hell!

[@garlandcrenshaw6258]

Ulruk The Obliterator IKR made me charge my vita

[@iesousdark]

i 100% just to forget about it. too bad it cant be erased.

[@bingbongjoel6581]

You made 23 minutes feel like 10! I love your voice :) Great video!

[@cheappyv5156]

Vita is an amazing testimony that PIRACY (the thing feared *MOST* by the platformholders) does not negatively affect console and games sales. PS2 was cracked wide open almost from day one and went on to become the best selling game console of all time, while Vita was "the most secure system" (LoL) and barely managed 10 million

[@ENash699]

My question is, how is Nintendo handling piracy on the Switch? Sure they give you a warning that any modification to the system software can result in bricking the console but there's news stories of people hacking the hell out of it, getting it to run as a fully functional Nvidia tablet. The system is getting barraged with games getting ported to it as well as getting developed for it. It uses micro SD as well so shouldn't developers be worried given the PSPs past? Or why does Sony have this problem worse?

[@88oscuro]

Switch is already hacked though.. Sony did what they did with memory cards because there where a lot of piracy on the psp. Dreamcast was insanly pirated and was one of the reasons it died. Might also be one reason.

[@Futura2500]

Link says hi

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

Sandy "nintendo stable got boring after the gamecube" Extremely subjective stuff. For me, Breath of the Wild is well worth buying the system.

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

Nintendo bans your console if you log into the eshop. Also, since hacking the Switch is a bit convoluted for now, it still is niche. They do it for 3DS as well. That does not stop hacking of course and I doubt anything will. If there is anything to learn from the Vita, its that you cannot stop piracy no matter what and sacrificing user friendliness and treating all buyers as potential pirates will only backfire. Nintendo, despite the 3DS being hacked, did not opt for a proprietary memory card in Switch unlike the PS Vita, because for them, being affordable is more important.

[@timtoye1138]

not long after i bought my vita i stopped playing it for a long time but recently ive been playing it a lot more to get trophies in the games i already owned and ended loving the system again. even bought a second vita system and buying more games too to bad the system is virtually dead. had so much promise

[@g3nolla-307]

Yep I agree, I have PSP, 3ds and vita and vita is my all time favorite. I still buy games for it even today, and I even bought the vita tv to play PSP and vita games on the tv.

[@ProjectTheKhan]

own one along with a 2ds xl and a psp 3000 and i love the vita because of the amazing jrpgs on the system

[@BrettAnimationMods]

I own a ps vita 1001 version as of today and love the hyperdimension neptunia, sword art online, Atelier games etc and especially love how you can listen to your mp3 music in some titles and the video function that allows me to see all the kissanime and 9anime videos on the go without use of the internet

[@vsanz4758]

I don't think memory cards were a real reason for Vita failing. In the beggining they advertised it as a portable console for AAA games, mostly sold on physical copies...therefore you only needed a 4gb memory card. I don't agree with launch titles either, it had a great early catalogue with almost all sony exclusives and new original games like Gravity rush and Tearaway. The correct answer is marketing and Sony giving up almost instantly

[@AVAL2775]

V Sanz for some reason allot of sony players were pissed that the vita had console quality gaming

[@underwaterdick]

Well said. I think the memory cards certainly added to this, but the crap marketing and giving up on it were the biggest. Most people thought it was a PS3 add-on because Sony pushed the marketing that way, when it is a console in its own right.

[@pokemax93]

it was also nintendo gamers whining about it as well, saying dumb crap like "no one wants console games on handhelds" even though every nintendo handheld had ports that were almost exactly like the console version and they sold a lot (super mario 64 ds)

[@yournightmare9999]

But switch funboys like tablet with removable controllers and shitty screen colors

[@wirrexx]

Yeah, no! The memory card Was a huuuge deal for me and at least 8/10 friends WHO owned the vita. We Did not like to Carry all of our games with Us and downloading psx games and vita games Was just more efficient!

[@bobdotexe]

Great Video! Lots of good info. But just a few notes, 1- The ps TV has native support for using the ps4 touchpad for touch screen emulation. 2-I was unable to find any evidence of bricks from playing blacklisted Ps Tv games. 3-I don't think it's really fair to assume that 'everyone' was 'more than likely' using a modded psp back in the day. Especially in the early days of modding, you'd need special hardware to even mod your system. It got much easier with time, But up until the self signing and easy downgrade software much later, it was still much harder than even hacking a 3ds today. Yes, a ton of people modded there systems, but the PSP sold 76 million copies, and I guess you could check web search trends, and site traffic for those years, but I hardly doubt even 1/3 (25 million people) modded there system. 4-While there is much debate over while the vita failed, it does not seem to be a single reason, but I believe the marketing, support from sony, memory card prices, and the cost of making AAA games for that system all played a factor.

[@gabevillarreal5118]

Good little documentary. I def learned a bit.

[@jootoobersters]

Great video!

[@frpayawal]

Great video! It truly makes me sad that the Vita did not take off. I'd still be buying one soon though. Sub'd.

[@WiseGuy3683]

While I agree that the memory cards were a major contributing factor, I would say, that kind of how the XB1 and Wii U had a laundry list of issues since their announcement, so did Vita. Vita had online passes for the majority of its games for the first year and half of the systems life, a lot of its early games forced gimmick control schemes like motion sensing and touch, many of its games early on were buggy and/or broken requiring large patches, many of its games early on were missing content like online modes like Mod Nation Racers or were downright money grabbing schemes like Ridge Racer, it had 3G support but only through 1 carrier, Near was a great idea but highly underused, for a lot of people that back touch pad just plain got in the way, and the advertisement and marketing was far from what Sony did with PS4. The thing is, much like how I feel about Wii U and XB1, I really like my Vita. While Vita had a horrible lead up to launch and didn't have a great first 2 years, and yes, it faded pretty bad after those first 2 years, it has a lot of pros going for it and has really turned into a great system. It easily has my favorite OS of any dedicated gaming device released so far, the online is free yet is almost as feature rich as PS4 and XB1, it's BC with the majority of digital PSP games and plays a ton of my digital purchases I made from PS3 including all of my PS1 classics, it's region free so even if a game doesn't get a physical release here in the US I can import an English version from elsewhere, I can play on the TV via PS TV, I can stream my PS4 games to it, and games come on carts which gives them much more longevity. Sure, they didn't turn things around for the system and sure, it took them way too long to reverse the online pass blunder, but what's there now is a really awesome little device that has aged quite well despite never selling well. To this day I'm still buying NEW physical games for it and I doubt I'll stop anytime soon. That said, I wish Sony was as supportive of their hardware as us Vita owners are. It's a damn shame to see how it went out. While I love the device, how Sony seems to have forgotten about Vita or the people who purchased it soured me to Sony and makes me to skeptical to supporting them with future hardware.

[@agamvfx3880]

U deserve a like for wasting your time

[@amristar736]

I love my Vita. I have 3. Two phats and 1 aqua blue slim.

[@rxgtv]

Did you import your aqua? When i got mine, it was only the black.

[@hdofu]

Reason for Failure "This new system is great it will give you the closest experience to console gaming on the go ever... btw we've introduced this new memory card for it that isn't backward compatible with the psp or psp go memory, it's completely proprietary and will be significantly more expensive then a microsd… the units aren't shipping with any onboard memory"

[@JustBlankVerse]

Congratulations for this great video!

[@yakubi8320]

I still have my vita in (2018) and im in love with it im a TROPHY HUNTER and the ability to unlock trophies on the go makes vita even better! Plus theres a lot of really really GOOD GAMES To play for instance assassins creed, need for speed, fifa 15, gravity rush, killzone, uncharted! And alot more !!!

[@sayyamnasir8080]

Awesome video. But still i love my Ps Vita. It's the best handheld i have ever owned. 👑

[@chchris25]

Nice video! Unfortunately a hacked vita releases it’s full potential! I love my Vita and it’s my go 2 portable system.

[@mashael2243]

I owned PSP in the past, and I was crazy about it as a kid. But with other electronics coming out I forgot totally about it. Now that I have decided to be back in the game, I don't know If I should buy it or buy another portable device. I mainly want it for the Japanese games. But if there isn't a translation version of the games, it would probably be a lose for me as I unfortunately don't speak Japanese. I'm going to check your other videos for sure to decide, but could I ask if it is being discontinued or not?? I think I missed that point so I just want to make sure :). + You're content is so good and I really love the way you present things in your video! So glad I found your channel.

[@TNVGAMING]

The hardware has been discontinued in the US and PAL regions, but is still being manufactured in the Japan-Asia regions. Just import one if you decide to buy one, they're region-free.

[@mashael2243]

TnVGaming thank you, That is really good to hear! I'll be sure to check out.

[@bestoutrunner]

I set my PSTV to the Europe region, just so I could download and play Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles. The game runs great and don't know why it's whitelisted in the US.

[@wasabinator]

This was so well done, liked and subscribed :) And love my Vita, have from launch day and 100 physical game purchases.

[@ajin580]

Hello Where to buy ps vita2? I want one

[@Zetheek]

"Drastically reduce piracy" the Vita is by far the easiest system to pirate games on. You can literally pirate games from three entire systems without even using a PC.

[@dezm101]

I own a fat vita and bought a pstv when it came out - love the systems but after owning both for a few years I definitely think besides the memory cards and lack of marketing, there was too much focus on gimmicks in the vita games like the rear touch pad, camera and accelerometer that ruined the experience for me too often and I would actively stay away from games that used these features. After Henkaku came out, I was playing PSTV more than ever and now I can really appreciate the systems after what the vita community has done for the scene.

[@astrolite3192]

I love my Vita. Got it when it came out. It's the greatest feeling when your the only guy at work who can play their PS4.

[@Thomaticus]

Great Video! I hope Sony sees this. I don't like they try to blame the market for the Vita's failure when it was their critical mistakes that prevented sales. A PS VIta Pro would be awesome and could be sold at a profit just as the Nintendo switch sales at a profit.

[@Vlad0wnsyoass]

The most memorable ps vita commercial was the Call of Duty Declassified commercial, it was played so many times. how could you not know about it?

[@aceassn716]

Excellent video in depth and informative. I do plan on getting one.. but the total cost is more than a PS4 or Xbox 1! Its almost $300 for a new vita and 64gb card. add in a game and or two, it'd be around $380. The pro is only a few dollars mo! PS4&XB1 bundles beat the vita cost wise. I'm someone who doesn't own PS4,Xb1 still and doing the math is telling I feel.

[@vsanz4758]

aceassn716 It's no use to buy a new one nowadays, they are too damn expensive. But you can find easily enough preowned Vitas for 100 or less, many of them in great condition

[@abibirawa4119]

Tried the dragon quest builders demo on Switch, bought it on Vita instead. Having absolute blast playing it. I love the switch, but compared to Vita, it's just so much comfortable to hold because it's smaller. And the 5" screen is just enough for me. Not to mention the 6 hours battery compared to 3 hours on Switch.

[@notespreepree315]

Sony should port more ps2 n ps 3 games on the vita

[@hbarudi]

When I see things about vita, it is an interesting system now with ps1, ps2, psp titles in the sony eshop and cross play for ps3 and ps4 make it the ultimate sony portable system, but its price. The system was $250 at launch + $100 for the 64gb memory card (best to get the highest storage memory card and put it into the system and forget it in there) = $350 for the complete system at launch. Now the system goes for low price used and can be bought new as japan import, same with memory card but for much lower price. While it can't compete with switch, at this point, vita is a great retro gaming device and portable device from sony. Hope they make a sucessor that competes with the switch and is powerful portable system.

[@alvin081988]

I bought the Vita in 2013 knowing that it will have great AAA games that are like PS2 and PS3 graphics....I still don't regret buying it cause it is a great Handheld Device and having fun playing old PS1 games. I just hope we can get some games ported to the Vita

[@MzJayJay10]

Woooohooo 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@its_heh_suess]

I was really anticipating the PSVita whenever they came out with the Black Ops Declassified back then. I own one now as a young adult and I have to say I am very depressed to see that the support here in the US is very disappointing. This console had a lot of potential

[@underwaterdick]

I bought a PSVita last month (brand new imported from Japan) and am loving it. Truly great machine, killed by Sony. Poor marketing, making people think it was a ps3 add-on only and expensive memory cards held sales back. I am gutted to know that there will not be any new great games on it (I am not a fan of JRPG's and constant fast paced indys) however I have a huge backlog of great titles to play. (Killzone, MGS2+3, Uncharted, NFS, Assassins, Tearaway, LBP so far and more to buy...) The original PSP was years ahead of its time, giving us games, video, music and full internet browser LONG before Ipods and phones had these features. A truly great machine, yet when people saw me with mine (I pre-ordered it almost a year before release) they would ask 'is that like a gameboy?' - Marketing was poor for the PSP and it was even worse for the PS Vita. PSVita cross play, cross buy and cross save are AMAZING, especially with the indy games often given away by PSPLUS, where they are more suited to a handheld but with the added bonus of local multiplayer on ps4 versions.

[@Tech-xm8vg]

I love my Vita and play it all the time. So sad that Sony Europe handled it so badly and I agree that the memory card prices are the main reason for its bad sales, well that and the complete lack of marketing. I do wish that Sony would watch this video and the many others like it and learn from its mistakes and make a new PS VITA successor or even re-release it at a lower price as I consider it the best truly portable system and it just has a certain something about it, just like the PSP did when that was first released.

[@Kenneth-jt7ul]

Probably could added in that ps vita release wasn't at good time where smartphone where taking off that year. F2P games were everywhere on google/apple store. There's still new games releasing on ps vita till current date but consider as 2018 the hardware kinda dated. It's need new processor more ram and 5G connection wifi to make it great again. What if sony could had AAA title on new handheld console where graphics tone down only 10-15% from ps4? That'll be great.

[@MetalGateDragon]

I got my Playstation TV for $20 brand new! I love it. My Vita will always have a place in my heart. Day one adopter!!!

[@Dashman98]

The Vita is now a system for specific types of people. Comparing the PSP's variety of genres vs the Vita's is painful

[@telios13]

I have a vita and i can play ps1 psp amazing vita games, and retro games ... ;)

[@sonicblast19]

The anti piracy measures really hurt the consumers not only in price but in usability too. Putting a movie on the Vita required a conversion to a specific format tolerated by the system and even worse transfering it or any data from the PC or PS3 to the Vita through cable was painful and slow. You had to be on the same account to transfer anything and the process took ages even for relatively small files and the price for that thing was huge. 250 for the system and another huge pay for a memory card that was slow as shit. It didn't help that the downloads speeds were abysmal, most of the time downloads would fail with the only redeemeable feature being the resume function. The Vita was a great system, it was elegant, felt premium, the screen on the first model is still the best for gaming, had youtube app which I still want on the freaking Switch, it was the all-in-one portable system. But then Sony saw the mobile market and they blamed it for the Vita's low sales ignoring their bullshit "features" the system had. They could've done a 180 with the 2000 model, they did ok with the microUSB but if they used microSD then the Vita wuld've had more appeal to consumers since SD cards became really popular then. The Vita prooves to me that Sony got REALLY lucky with the PS4. The fact they didn't do anything different from the PS3(apart from putting a fee for Multiplayer) got them the popularity. Microsoft fucked up with the Xbox One's DRM and Nintendo released a underpowered console, the WiiU. The fact that Sony never listens to their consumers and the PSVita shows me that they are here because of luck and nothing else. I can't think of anything innovating coming from the PS Brand just things done right, copied and a lot of dumb luck.

[@MartyMcfly720]

Great video

[@cristhianolmedo3236]

Great video, thanks!!

[@GilangGegono77]

I'm currently own PS4 and already sold my PS Vita a year ago. But, while PS4 is an awesome system, PS Vita is still my best console I ever own. I really miss it.

[@Elevationcee]

Own two love um both and I love remote play Its amazing.. Just being able to travel miles away from home and remote play from wifi to your home console and play the games u love to play daily.. I really think that is the best feature Sony added to the ps vita handheld and wish for them to continue improving it for the past system.

[@SkyScourgeGod]

The Vita had tons of potential even with the memory cards being a thing. We've seen companies do their own proprietary memory formats back in the 90's and early 2000's and no one cared because they were priced fairly. The issue Sony had with the Vita was not necessarily the memory cards themselves, it was about the price of the memory cards. Those things were WAY too high in price to be considered ok by the standards of any SD cards that had the same amount of memory. They were so pricey you'd think Sony would've had to make a blood sacrifice just to design the damn things. If Sony had made the cards much cheaper and/or had at least SOME memory built into the Vita's themselves, then their memory cards would've been far more forgivable. Pirates are, of course, another huge reason for Sony wanting to do this and I can tell you right now that I hate game pirates for causing stuff like this. If its for obscure or old consoles that you can't buy games digitally somewhere like Xbox live, PSN or Nintendo shop then that's one thing, but pirating new games for current gen consoles is a terrible practice that causes systems like the Vita to fail in the long run. I guess only the most hardcore or faithful gamers can appreciate supporting devs by buying the games legally.

[@RoninXDarknight]

Given the choice between my Vita and my PS4 I'd go with the Vita in a heartbeat. Only problem is the lack of games on the Vita...though a lot of what's there I enjoy (Persona 4 Golden, Trails in the Sky/Trails of Cold Steel, Ys etc.). Can also get a lot of classic games as digital downloads (Megaman Legends) and although the back touch pads are spoty at best, I found a cheap case that adds physical levers to make these far more usable. Though, honestly, as much as I love my Vita, my Switch beats it out entirely. Looks every bit as great as the Vita, can play as a handheld or as a console and already has a huge library of games.

[@carsonbrooks7604]

is it bad that on this video for me was a Nintendo ad?

[@peterchurmuzis6039]

I own a PSVITA, and I love it. Personally, I didn't care about the PSVITA memory cards as I bought a game bundle which included an 8GB PSVita Memory Card. I even had a PSP and I loved it. But after PlayStation Vita, I moved to Xbox. 2 months ago I wanted to get back to the PlayStation Network Community so I bought a PS4!

[@datoneburrito3036]

If Sony actually tried the vita would have been great

[@alexcoupe.]

So do Japanese Vita games work on a European Vita system?

[@TNVGAMING]

Yes. All PlayStation Vita titles, systems, & memory cards are region-free and will on any system in any combination.

[@Bikertyke]

I bought a Switch. It was excellent. But after finishing Zelda. There wasn't any more games I fancied. So I bought a Ps4 and 2nd hand vita. I now play remote play with ps4 controler. Love playing this way. Plus there's hundred of games to choose from

[@angelvillegas9604]

Your taste is limited and shit

[@TheSpore35]

Vita is the most elegant and pretty portable console

[@SnakezDogg]

It is still sad. I loved PS Vita. Man.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

There's so much that Sony didn't take advantage with the Vita, I love my PSVita & it has a good selection of games

[@rendyajadech1957]

14:07 vita default theme

[@daltonwilliams2962]

I got my in 2015. Since there were plenty of good games available for low prices at that point it was a great purchase for me, but I'd probably be saying something else if I bought it at launch. The memory sticks were some BS.

[@MillenniumFalcon]

This was the best summary ever. Thank you.

[@ElAlex214]

Great video! All i can say is that the failure of the PS Vita made the switch as success! Everything that went wrong with the vita nintendo fixed and then some. If you think about it the vita came out 6yrs ago and graphically speaking is right there with the switch. I believe that Sony rushed the vita because when it came out it was way ahead of its time, poor marketing & the proprietary memory were indeed the two major factors for its fall. Like you said Sony had to take precautionary measures of hacks and its understandable that they went that route on the memory cards but the prices were just way too over priced, if the cost remained at least 5-10$ over the micro sd price and at least a 128gb was made things could turned out differently. I love my PSV even with "all its flaws" its a great handheld that's underappreciated but rightfully so, its a shame that sony just let it died they way they did. Im hoping that sony takes note off everything that went wrong and plans a return of a new handheld because there is a market for it and nintendo is taking advantage of being there by themselves.

[@MetalHorrorGamer]

I know vita needed more Exclusive AAA games in general but the one I needed was god of War. I don’t mean the slow GOW on the PS4 but a real successor to ghost of Sparta for the vita. Sadly it never came

[@grimreavers]

Nice vid.. Love my vita.. Goes everywhere with me..

[@tomoyaokazaki7715]

Watching this amazing yet helpful video made me love end enjoy my PS Vita more and more.

[@reidcircuits826]

I love the Vita. Bought the early bundle but know I have slim model, I want to get the original oled model again lol.

[@chegorita]

nintendo switch is marketed as console gaming on the go, and is doing well, pity vita didn't get same reception (remote play on the go ) :P

[@nategreatgames78]

90% of the Vitas lack of success in the US was due to the way they marketed the thing, period. Sony’s marketing in general was bad during that stretch before they found their way shortly before the PS4 announce and they ended up suing one of the companies they used over it. The thing is still doing well in Japan because they marketed it there in a way that resonated with those consumers. I think people put to much on the price of the memory cards, i think if anybody really wanted one bad enough that wasn’t really going to be the deal breaker. Sony intended for the Vita to be a premium boutique item so they knew it wasn’t going to sell as many units outright than a cheaper handheld. Not to brag but people talk about memory cards all the time, I’ve got like 7 32 gig and a couple of smaller cards, and because I like the vita so much and the quality of gaming I can get from it from the vast number of games available to play on it, the cost of those cards was well worth it. In fact getting most games digitally at reduced prices kind of offsets the price of the cards.

[@BlazeRhodon]

16:12 I would say fortunately since UMD were very bad from the beginning and I guess dumped games (I dump games only for personal use) work much faster on Memory Stick Pro Duo. Also PSP was flawed system (poor security proved this) therefore hacking it helped to kill this console (but in Japan PSP was still supported). Now we have PPSSPP, I used this emulator only for few obscure games for PSP that I could not get in legal way (thanks to Sony of course). I'm not kidding, I would rather play these PSP obscure games through PPSSPP emulator which quality is surprisingly good (far better than on on actual PSP or even PS Vita) than paying for lousy port on PSN, therefore I don't like Sony, they do not know what is backwards compatibility (and no, I'm not Xbox fanboy, I'm actually PC player).

[@ounaku]

The stupid memory cards and the poor marketing decisions killed it. But it is well and alive in Japan, everyone enjoys their JRPGs on the Vita. It's perfect for those games and let the rest of the world enjoy Switch. If the switch eventually comes down to the price of a vita now, I would probably get it too =)

[@bingbongjoel6581]

The PS Vita will be remember as a cult classic console/handheld.

[@MrGajaBoss]

2019 ... My Ps Vita, It's the best handheld. Vita for life

[@brandon_5297]

That background music is from ps vita

[@ciangargan]

I got my PSVita second hand for €125. I bought a 64GB memory card and it costed €90. The memory cards are definetly why it failed.

[@cthulhu888]

On top of the other issues, i feel thet much like the wiiu that naming it the vita didnt help either. Most people likely wouldn't know what the word vita meant and from the outside it doesn't sound like a successor to the psp. Naming it PSP2 or PSP Duo would've been much smarter to market it having two analog sticks, being a companion to the ps3/4 and if they kept using memory stick duos they could've added that to the marketing if they wanted to. Overall with every step forward they made with each psp model they made an equal step back as well 😅

[@lazcarr1342]

I love my PS Vita, my Nonetendo Switch, sits in its cradle. Had I wanted a heavy 300 inch TV in my pocket I would by another iPad. Waiting to get another PS Vita, want a BLUE ONE!!!!! :)~

[@alexisguerrero7551]

You forget the PSP when first came out barely had games and Sony was focusing on movies with umd.

[@JordanDC87]

I love the playstation vita. I always knew the concept was amazing and nintendo proved that with the Nintendo Switch. I got my OLED psvita on launch day and i love playing games on it and i even bought a psvita slim when it came out. Out of my 2 psvitas i play the slim one the most. I have a few memory cards(8, 16, 32gb). I really want to buy a 64gb card and one or more of the colored psvitas from japan.