PS Vita: How NOT to Save a Console

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  @rickm9244 · 2 years ago

  PSvita. $200. The biggest memory card. $180. You can see why it failed.

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• BI

  @BigOnAnime94 · 2 years ago

  The marketing was also very poor. I bought a PS Vita in very early 2014. None of my co-workers at the movie theater knew what it was when I played it in the break room, but they knew what a 3DS was. To this day, your average joe still doesn't know what a PS Vita is.

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• MI

  @mitsoko · 1 year ago

  The big problem with the Vita was that simply nobody had even heard of it. I distinctly remember being a kid and being the only one who knew what it was, and even I didn’t have one.

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• RI

  @rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi · 2 years ago (edited)

  God it still pisses me off how sony treated the vita... feels like they didnt even try with how fast it &quot;died&quot;. Also vita is a very ironic name now thanks to this.<br>GOD I MISS MODNATION RACERS

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• MA

  @marvelmania7283 · 2 years ago

  You say in the end &quot;I am sure if the vita was released today, Sony would have done a few things differently. Having the PS portal in the back of my mind, makes me think Sony still doesn&apos;t get the appeal of portable gaming

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• RA

  @Rawwr1ful · 1 year ago

  even today, the OLED display on the original vita looks absolutely gorgeous, such a shame it didn&apos;t do well.

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• CA

  @CaptVitaGamer · 2 years ago

  There was an article back in 2011 where they asked Kazurai about how Sony will be able to combat the loss they will be having with every Vita sold. I believe he answered that they had a plan for that. And we all know what it was now: those overpriced memory cards.

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• TH

  @theotherjared9824 · 1 year ago

  This was technically the first OLED screen to ever be mass produced. That&apos;s a major reason why it was so expensive and there were complaints of burn in early on.

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• ME

  @MEUProductions · 2 years ago

  I have a 3G Vita. The 3G didn&apos;t work for online gaming. You could really only access the Playstation store, sync trophies, message friends, and use the Internet browser.

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• AR

  @armando_az1 · 2 years ago

  The unique memory cards wore too expensive from what i heard, sure make them proprietary but on the same price range of a sandisc.

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• FX

  @FX103 · 1 year ago

  2 things you forgot to mention:<br><br>1) Many of the exclusives that would have attracted Western gamers such as Resistance, Killzone and CoD, were only average to downright terrible.<br><br>2) The loss of the Monster Hunter series to Nintendo was a massive blow in Japan.

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• ER

  @Eragonfrost · 2 years ago

  Vita has more exclusives than PS5

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