PS Vita Remains a Viable Platform in 2020

Still have plenty of love for my Vita!

And now I've fixed the issue with EE tethering and remote play, it's more viable than ever for me!

Already gave my vita to my relatives since I already got switch lite for my indie games machine. I miss playing castlevania sotn, sony handheld system is so good that I can't bring myself to sell them.

I still use mine all the time. Amazing piece of kit.

Announce Cyberpunk 2077 Vita Edition.

I used to love the vita. People complained about lack of games, but I didn't have enough time to play all the ones that I had bought.

I still haven't gone through my backlog, but now every time I check out the new titles, I feel a bit disappointed. Sadly, 16/8 bit games with the budget of a middle school student's weekly allowance do nothing for me.

Speaking of which, I'm considering on going back to Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice, Killzone Mercs, Oreshika and MH:FU soon. As well as playing MGS HD collection, since I recently bought it.

Vita is a real gem, and it's sad to see Sony abandoning it so quickly. If only the memory cards weren't so dang pricy.

Did it get the new Just Dance though?

Vita is as dead as the Wii U, and we all know how dead that is, and yes Wii U is getting a new game too. RIP old forgotten consoles. 😢

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/01/youre_not_dreaming_this_n64-style_platformer_really_is_coming_to_wii_u

I think if they would start working on the Vita again with a lower price it would be booming.

Still playing mine almost daily. Currently playing through Trails of Cold Steel 2 (50 hours in) and have a huge backlog to play that will take at least a decade to get through. And thays before i play games i want to run through again like Persona 4 and Uncharted.

So no chance my Vita will be going out of circulation for a long time.

Still. I saw the picture on the news page and hoped there had been an announcement of a successor. Its the hope that kills you 😅

Use mine on a daily basis at work the switch is just too big plus the vita has one of the best versions of everybody’s golf and txk keeps me happy

@Flaming_Kaiser nah. As soon as a product is considered undesirable by the masses, it's game over. Hence why the road to the first 15m is so important, as that xbox guy rightly pointed out.

@KALofKRYPTON me two so bummed they stopped making physical games

@Veritas4545 It is.

They never should've abandoned first party development.

I do love my Vita despite it lasting approximately 0.00001 seconds if I take out the charger. I’m currently playing through Trails in the Sky 2 and Gran Turismo 2 on it. That was after playing Ridge Racer Type 4 which might possibly be one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Vita means life!

Using it these past few days to play Resident Evil 3 (never got very far when I had it back in the PS1 days). I use this thing on and off (it’s the only current console to run PS1 games, for example), mostly to practice TEKKEN on the go. I prefer taking it with me on trips as opposed to the Switch too, mostly because it’s not as big and seems less fragile, lol.

Also, if WiFi wasn’t trash in my house (despite my best efforts) I’d be using it for remote play on the daily!

Speaking of remote play, HORI makes an insanely good attachment that turns the stupid touch pad into L2/R2 triggers, and it’s far and away the best attachment you ABSOLUTELY NEED to get for remote play, IMHO.

@keihtg

It's a shame that the HORI attachment can now only be found for around £100! I regret not picking one up less than 12 months ago when they were a more respectable £30.

@Vacuumator Whaaat! That’s an insane price! At that cost, it’s definitely better to rig up a PS4 controller and a phone or laptop for remote play...

Still using the vita. I guess around 2-4 hours a week. Still many games to play. Vita is build strong and keeps on lasting.
Definitely putting more time on the PS4 and Switch. But I still be using the Vita until it breaks Or until sony release another handheld.

I've been without for a couple of years but still plan to pick one up again at some point

Still regularly use my Vita. There are some stunning AAA games on the platform and first class indie titles. The form factor and insane battery life is what really does it for me, though. It's so easy to slip into a pocket or bag and very unlikely to have a flat battery, even if I don't touch it for a few days.

The Vita is such a great system that was criminally under-marketed. I have countless stories of friends of mine or strangers who see me playing it not knowing much about it, playing it for 15 mins and asking where they can buy one. The remote play with PS4 alone makes this a must have for most gamers & have no clue it even exists. It's nice to see it still being supported!

@nessisonett Replacement battery is only $10-11 on Amazon.

As with so many sony products, vita was technically sophisticated gaming system ahead of it's time in so many ways, but was expensive to own. I'm an old mini-disc user. Found a portable recorder from overseas in a pawn shop and got it for next to nothing because they had no idea what it was. I used to go through Sony's catalog and they'd have products for sale that were like the concepts for products from other manufactures. They were all helps expensive for the most part too, but a lot of items were 10 years ahead of their time. If vita had been priced better, or at least games and accessories brought down from astronomical prices, the vita would have been the most popular game system ever.

@nessisonett if its the vita 1000 then i think you need to open it and pull off the battrey and replug it, then its gonna work fine, of course that if you gonna open it

I still to this day use my PS Vita daily with plenty of games to get through, just starting Call of Duty Declassified and recently finished Killzone Mercenary its the best portable money can buy despite its proprietary over priced memory cards. I love living on Vita Island without the PS Vita i probably would not have been able to play so many fantastic games that have been later ported to PS3/PS4 or are Cross-Buy. Even without the PS Plus offerings its fantastic.
For anybody looking for some fantastic titles here are my recommendations.

Freedom Wars (Like portable Monster Hunter will a highly active online community)
Killzone Mercenary (Best looking game and FPS on PS Vita)
Gravity Rush
Lego games (only one to avoid is Lego The Movie game as its clunky and glitched all others are great)
Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 1 & 2 probably the best JRPG you will ever experience handy on a portable system to maximise your gaming time, cross-save with PS3 and PS Vita but one time cross-save with PS4 so don't cross-save with PS4.
Helldivers (online and offline on PS Vita online only with PS3 and PS4 cross-save enabled across all systems)
A Winters Day Dream (first western visual novel)
Persona 4 Golden (great JRPG)
Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Collection (buy it digital only though so you get FFX-2)
World of Final Fantasy (cross-save enabled its Final Fantasy mixed with Pokemon and its great)
Tokyo Xanadu (a Persona-style game by Falcom but with Falcom charm)
Unit 13 (great third-person shooter works like Gears of War in many ways but with the spirit of SOCOM)
Valkyrie Drive ( yes its a hack n slash titty game but its a great hack n slash titty game)
Epic Mickey 2: Power of Two (its basically Kingdom Hearts for the PS Vita without the FF)
Rocketbirds 1 & 2 made by Ratloop Games its a 2D shooter about a chicken going to war (whats not to love?)
Valkyria Revolution not the best in the series but its perfect for the PS Vita
Tales of Hearts R (JRPG)
Nun Attack its about Nuns attacking monsters...its fantastic
Burley Men at Sea
Dragons Crown
Borderlands 2 its a bit rubbish with the frame rate the but a great way to play the game on the go cross-save is enabled with PS3. only has Hammerlock and Scarlette DLC though on Vita.
Odinsphear - just play it its Vanillaware
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale - every PS character of 2011 in a game beating up each other? Whats not to love?
Rayman Origins
Resistance Burning Skies

Play some of these games you will not regret it. Please note some of these games have servers shut down so online would not be accessible but i would still recommend playing them.

@Neolit what did Ninty do right with the Swithy light exactly?

We gonna get a new Sony handheld then? I think I'm gonna buy the VITA.

I haven't bought a Switch as of yet.

If I there is a VITA successor I would definitely buy it.

I'm more into e.g. the XSEED translations of Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky, Cold Steel, Toxyo Xanadu ex+, also Final Fantasy, Yakuza, Persona, Valkyria Chronicles and many of the VITA titles available on PS4/PC. I would really like a new handheld definitely.

Best retro handheld on the market, perfect ps1 and psp emulation, overclocking, fps and resolution customization thanks to homebrew, pc ports if classics like Quake 1-3, counter strike, hexen, redneck rampage. Jrpg fans dream.
People keep going on about not many games but that's bull crap. Do yourself a favour, buy a cheap used vita, hack it (takes about an hour on the latest firmware, sony didn't even bother blocking it in the last update) buy a sd2vita converter so you can use micro sd cards, install nopaystation app on the Vita and download every ps1 psp psm and ps Vita game ever made for free including all dlc. As well as retroarch for all your classic consoles and arcade games. I will never have time to finish even just the Vita games since all the Japanese games are easily patched to english.

Who's laughing now!?

@naruball Nah because you are just completely biased towards modern triple A junk!

@GamingDude800 Sure, buddy. Because there is nothing between AAA games and 8/16 bit games. Nothing.