If you have a Playstation Vita then chances are that, like us here at 8Bitbot, you love the device. It delivers on almost every aspect a gamer on the go could hope for yet sales are poor and it is receiving a beating against Nintendo’s 3DS that is worse than the PSP vs DS battle of last generation. However in that generation the DS had exceptional sales and the PSP had great sales, they co-existed. This does not seem to be the case for the current generation, with the 3DS doing well it’s possible that the Vita could die if things don’t turn around.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.
How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.
It's just backwards.
What your talking about is called block list
In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback
Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.
But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Nothing.
It's problems are related to the changing market.
It doesn't have a mass-market system-seller, that's what is wrong. It has a wide variety of niche titles that make the system as a whole worth owning, but there isn't a single game on Vita that I can point to and say "see? That game will make it fly off the shelves"
Then again, my favorite games on PSP were niche titles so I guess I don't really mind.
Vita needs a Monster Hunter, obviously, and a Gran Turismo wouldn't hurt, either, seeing how GT on PSP was the highest-selling non-Monster Hunter game iirc.
Not enough games. Except for that, love it.
The only problem I can see with the Vita is their main selling point (when the thing first launched) was look at how much more powerful our handheld is vs the other guys' handheld. They didn't really stop to think that without really compelling software, nobody is going to want to spend $250+ on something that they may use "occasionally" or sometime down the road because there might be a good game coming.
I think the Vita has definitely started to increase in appeal, party due to the PS4's launch and the great companion that the Vita can become to the console. The Remote Play feature I think has won many people over just like the Off Screen feature is something that most Wii U owners love. The lowering of the price also helped as $200 is much more fathomable when you are talking about a handheld (the 3DS XL sells for $200 as well).
Unfortunately, most developers are still going to go where the userbase is, and so that kind of leaves the Vita in a strange place. It kind of reminds me of the Wii U partly. Developers know that the console is capable, but the install base isn't large enough for them to want to port their games over because they don't feel like they will recoup enough back. Strange sort of parallel I guess, but somewhat accurate.
Regardless, the Vita will be fine, it will still continue to sell. There will be some great games that will release on the handheld (just like there already has been). I never really considered purchasing a Vita in the past, however now owning a PS4 and loving the Off Screen feature of the Wii U, I am highly considering getting one so I can enjoy the Remote Play feature with my PS4. Not to mention there are a few games that interest me, so I am sure I would give a few of those a go as well.
The Vita hardware isn't the problem. It's how negligent Sony's been to it, both from a software support standpoint and a marketing standpoint.