Even Sony admits the PS Vita is dead
As Sony Interactive Entertainment’s president, Andrew House, explained, Sony believes that the handheld market is extremely “limited” in the age of the smartphone.
“The Vita experience was that outside of Japan and Asia, there was not a huge demand,” House told Bloomberg. “The lifestyle shift towards the dominance of smartphones as the single key device that is always with you, was the determining factor.”
Despite this, House admits that the Switch has been “really additive to the business,” with the release of Nintendo’s console possibly boosting sales of the PlayStation.
“The Nintendo device is a hybrid device and that’s a different approach and strategy.… The folks at Nintendo have their strategy and that’s great,” House said.
House concluded by saying that Sony intends to focus on the “big screen,” essentially cutting off support for the Vita and leaving handheld fans with little hope for a Vita successor.
“We remain focused around a highly connected gaming experience and also coupled with having a great range of other entertainment experiences so you can reach multiple people on the big screen in the household,” House said.
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DecyPosted:
-Silky Yeah I think everyone can agree here.
Yup pretty much.. didn't help them making the TV Version 720p either looks so potato.
RepBanditPosted:
Its so funny because I never saw this console get off the ground. I never heard much about it and even on the games that you could get with it. Reminds me of the dreamcast or gamecube. They were kinda weak on the sales
MusketPosted:
I mean they could compete with the switch if it tries, they didnt do much with the Vita
DecyPosted:
Craig Well yes, I could have told them that about 3 years ago...
lol... its because they never did anything decent with it.
ScxttPosted:
Tbh I never really looked into the vita, I always had free games for it popping up in the marketplace on my ps4, but never thought much about getting one, however I do agree with Sony about the handheld market being dead, nowadays phone's are at a point where you can play gta on them, handheld devices just seem a little pointless
ChatPosted:
Honestly, my brother had one I played it and it was alot of fun hate to see that the support wasn't there, if only they did more they could of kept it going.
DecyPosted:
lugiaisbeast101 It was a great device. The lack of support for it since day 1 was what killed it. Even the Switch would be meaningless without any games and development to back it.
The only thing keeping it alive now is the homebrew scene, but even then Sony releases patches just to thwart any progress. It would have been phenomenal if they put that amount of effort into the system itself.
i agree.. there's so much they could have done with this but it was just left.
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