
Sony's slowly dropping support for the PlayStation Vita, but it remains flush with Japanese titles and indie ports. This puts the portable in a unique position: it remains incredibly relevant – but only among a very specific niche. Fortunately, publisher XSEED – the organisation responsible for bringing the likes of Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed and Corpse Party: Blood Drive overseas – seems to understand its audience well, and has no intentions of dropping the device any time soon.
"We love the Vita," vice president Ken Berry exclaimed in an interview with Operation Rainfall. "It's a fantastic system. The install base may be lower compared to the PlayStation 3, but the Vita owners are the exact gamers that we are appealing to so every Vita release we see great support. So, as long as Vita games are being released in Japan, we will continue to bring them over. We're seeing a lot more of Vita and PlayStation 4 titles being released, so we might not see Vita exclusive games, but we will see a steady stream of PS4 and Vita titles."
The question is: will you continue buying games for the platform – or has all of the chatter about its health turned you away from the handheld? Revitalise your enthusiasm for the appliance in the comments section below.
[source operationrainfall.com]
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I'm gutted that Sony is dropping Vita support. I love this machine and it gets more attention from me than my 3DS which is just a £250 pokemon device. It will be a sad day when the Vita is discontinued because it has so much potential; I just wish Sony would have marketed it better.
@MrTwisticles what other 3DS games have you tried?
it has some real gems
I will always keep an eye out for my Vita and keep my finger on the pulse of what games are coming out for it.
@MrTwisticles Couldn't agree more. Thought I do use my 3DS quite a bit because Etrian Odyssey.
This is great though and makes me happy to hear. Blood Drive is also pretty great as well! ;3
The Vita is a marvelous handheld and it's great that small publishers are still actively bringing games over from Japan, even if they don't all appeal to me. I have quite a large backlog for it now. However, with more upcoming games being dual PS4/Vita releases I think I would rather play the console version, apart from Danganronpa.
Great news as I'm one of the weirdos that actually plays on my vita more than my ps4 or PS3. I've just been really enjoying all the content I can play while laying in bed or at a break at work. I truly love the vita. I wish Sony would at least find a way to support it more somehow. Thankfully we do have some publishers who still release high quality games for it and it's region free so I happily pre ordered the new Darius burst the other day as well.
They are finishing Trails in the Sky SC ? That's good!
@belmont Hopefully it won't be long til it's released in Europe! The first one was so good.
I love the vita, it has a fantastic library for me personally, and I'm still buying games for it (to add to my huge backlog on it!) Just in the October sale there I picked up three more games for it (Virtues last reward, LBP Vita and Child of Light) and there's still lots of games that I want to get on it that are out or coming out long live the Vita!
Edit: just wish Sony would lower the memory card prices so I could get a bigger one than my 16gb card
Give me a cheap enough 64-128gb card and I would buy 32-64 games until then I'm sat with 5 games clogging up my lowly 8 and 16gb cards. This is the vitas problem.
I'm a big fan of Xseed and support its games most of the time. But if a game is on PS4 and Vita, I'm more likely to go for the PS4 version.
@mookysam Yes. Ghostlight is the obvious candidate, of even xseed themselves if it is digital only, although I don't know how they would publish a PSP game in 2016, even if it is Vita compatible. Last retail release was Pro 2014 and after that there was an rpg from Ghostlight, a visual novel and some small games.
I don't want to go for the Steam version of SC only because there will be no psn publisher in Europe.
I just wish Sony could improve the PlayStation TV and Vita before they drop support for them. I'd like to see an update that allows the use of the PlayStation Gold headset with the PSTV.
I'll take the vita to the grave with me.
@themcnoisy has vita got 32-64 games worth buying?? I dunno, I think not.. I've got a 32gb and it's pretty good, space isn't really a problem. Cost of storage may have been its problem once but it's past that now. Just good games are few and far between. It has some gems though - no regrets buying it.
Any RPG-loving Vita owner who has a 3DS yet hasn't played Fire Emblem, it might be time to re-evaluate. I like Vita too but let's not get carried away here. The 3DS library is bangin'.
Of course I'll keep buying games as long as they keep coming. May only be a game or two a year, but hey, I'll take em.
Right now I'm stoked for Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. But nothing tops my anticipation for the 3DS' upcoming Fire Emblem Fates.
That's gonna be the greatest video game ever released on a handheld. Calling it now.
Been buying games for it and will continue doing so. Freaking love my Vita. My only issue now is storage...guess I'll be doing more physical purchases.
@JaxonH
Except the 3DS FE games are pretty much trash when compared to previous games. They're still good games, just nowhere near as good as the older games, so not a good example to showcase 3DS's JRPG library considering Vita has many more JRPGs of far higher quality.
@kyleforrester87 I have an 8gb and 16gb. My 16gb is full with 9 (albeit a couple large) games. There are tons of games available for the vita, every psp and loads of ps1 games. The dangaronpas, unchartered, lbp3, hundreds of jrpgs, wipeout2048, mgshd, txk, all the cross play games and of course your favourite ff10. I would honestly have bought 100 games if a 128gb was included, but with the lack of space I don't bother. I rarely 100% many games and don't have the time - but I still buy loads of games.
I'll buy them for aslong as they make them. Just aslong as they're good games. The Vita is still a pretty powerful dedicated gaming device, its just a shame we won't get anymore games like Killzone, Uncharted, Tearaway, etc that take advantage of the hardware.
Thank god for remote play and PlayStation Now because for me they have given the Vita an extended life.
@AVahne
Think you're missing what I'm saying. It's not a competition to see which system has more JRPG's, I'm pointing out a good game to people claiming there are "no good games". I just happened to choose an RPG as an example.
That aside, I've played the older ones and it's definitely not trash any way you slice it. I mean I love the GBA entries but they're nothing more than appetizers, and while the GC/Wii entries may be better, saying it's trash in comparison is more than a stretch. And of course Fates hasn't even released in the west yet.
Love the Vita. And patiently awaiting for Trails in the sky second chapter.
at least someone is, thankfully
@themcnoisy Have you got a PS3? I have a 16GB card and use my PS3 to transfer downloaded content back and forth. I would like to keep more on my Vita but it's an okay compromise. There is a content manager on PC as well but I think the PS3 is less finicky.
@mookysam no ps3 unfortunately. People moan about the 500gb ps4 harrddrive. I have about 30 games loaded with space, on my vita I have had as little as 5 big games that's a problem as I flit between 20 games at any one time.
@mookysam no ps3 unfortunately. People moan about the 500gb ps4 harrddrive. I have about 30 games loaded with space, on my vita I have had as little as 5 big games that's a problem as I flit between 20 games at any one time.
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