The Playstation Vita Was Perfect... But It Failed
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The PS Vita is undoubtedly one of the best handheld gaming consoles ever released, but it failed drastically. In today's video, we are going to talk about why the Playstation Vita failed as bad as it did.
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The PS Vita didn't fail, Sony failed the PS Vita.
TRUE
People failed not buying ps vita, not sony
MutantAli3n no no...those memory cards were a game breaker as it was, they should of done something
@@foxtrot801 Then sony should made it a more appealing product, at the end of the day its their fault.
@@Drilbit it was the best handheld sso ahead of its time !! So why people say now when its "dead" its an amazing machine ??
$100+ for a 64gb for a memory card? Sony's greedy scam got to them really good at the end.
But if the games were good and plentiful enough then the there would have been a reason and incentive to buy a 100 dollar memory card.
@@mr_m4613 no. irregardless of the quality of the games few people are going to buy a memory card that costs 2/3 the price of the console. couple that with the fact that deleting a game deletes the save data (unless you want to cough up $50 a year for ps+ cloud storage) the vita was designed to make as much money as possible from the consumers that purchased it. Compare the Launch lineup to Nintendo's 3DS, there isn't really a comparison to be made nintendo had to drop the price and give away games as an apology, where as the Vita's launch lineup is often cited as the best games on the system. while Nintendo kept releasing great games, Sony not only was greedy...they just gave up.
@@michaeltarot3013 they expected 3rd party companies to carry the vita like they are now doing with the ps4. So yeah they didnt have enough content and funds to juggle both, so they had to choose one. The ps4. But I mean hell if people are going out buying 1000 dollar PC rigs and a new graphics card every month and 400 and 500 dollars on gaming consoles then 100 dollars for a memory card shouldn't be a problem right.
Chris Ruiz Joke’s on them - with custom firmware, you can use an incredibly cheap adapter to put up to 500gb of (also cheap) micro SD card memory onto it, where all your free games and homebrews can be stored.
Sony were truly greedy cunts with the Vita, but lost in the end. Maybe next time they’ll actually place due attention to a promising product, rather than resting on the laurels of its exclusive success in the Japanese market.
@Chris Ruiz That's not how economy works...
"Only sold 18 million"
Wii U crying in the corner
@Nhat Anh Hoang and the Wii U did OK In Japan, the PS3 only catching up by the time the switch was announced.
Funny thing, it was the same story with the Saturn.
Wii sold 101 million units
I got a wii u and it was shit
I got a PSV and wiiU and regret nothing.
@Sean S U Sure About Dat
“No one wants to play AAA games on the go”... Nintendo “hold my witcher moonshine”
@Gustavo Duran playing it on the go is the reason why anyone would buy it. I wouldn't dock the Witcher on my Switch but I would definitely take it with me where my console and tv couldn't.
@Gustavo Duran Completely missed the point of the comment lol.
...Nintendo: hold my zelda, starlink, xenoblade, witcher 3, skyrim..
But you can plug in a dock the switch and you can play on tv whit it maybe if sony do that for vita maybe not dead
I’ll never understand people who play video games on the go, like are you that unhealthy addicted to video games or what. Just my opinion tho
The dumb vita memory card is the whole reason why I didn't buy it and never will if they stay expensive.
SD2Vita
Lemonov, that requires henkaku which is essentially hacking, a process that not everyone is willing to do. Besides, if Sony did not screw things up with their memory card, hackers don't even need to create sd2vita.
@@zesky1822 yet SD2Vita still exists and can be used.
And come on, why not hack your Vita? It's not like Sony gives a shit about it.
Good luck, their price is fixing to spike. Get SD2Vita and hack a Vita
@@zesky1822 henkaku is fixing to be outdated in the next week
"The Vita failed because of mobile phones"
3DS: "Lmao okay"
3DS was vastly less successful than its predecessor. But that may have also had to do with the gimmick and not seeming like that much of a step up from DS.
@@hitkid2456 But it still managed to sell over 70 million units despite the massive competition with mobile gaming. If the Vita were worth buying at all, it would have had several good killer apps in the first place (along with using SD cards or internal memory instead of proprietary cards).
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming can't say "it's dead now" like it's a bad thing, it's like saying the Super nintendo is dead, well of course it is, it's past its time but it did its job. Same for the 3ds, it was one of the most succesfull videogames ever made, and has an amazing library of games
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming no shit Sherlock, the 3ds is almost 10 years old, what did you expect?
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming just how old and triggered are you?
To this day I have never seen a Vita outside of GameStop in person.
I've only seen my cousin's.
My pal got one never knew it till he showed me while i was playing on mine :D
I still have my vita one my cousin is minding it since I forget at a holiday at her country
Get one, you won't regret it(as long as you get the good games)(and you have no problem against memory cards)
I have mine running custom firmware with emulators and SD card compatibility.
"When the Switch launched, many gamers had forgotten the PS Vita even existed"
I'll be honest here, I forgot I even owned a Vita until like a year after owning a Switch. I just like "Oh yeah, I own a vita" one day.
Honestly, I was playing FighterZ went to look for my joycon found it in a drawer next to my powerless Vita.
I can never forget my vita since it has psone games I can play when I'm heading to work n it also got persona 4 love tht game alot
I never owned a Vita and I forgot the Vita existed like after 2015.
well then i must be fast to buy a PSvita before everyone notices how good it was
Even before Switch, I forgot about my Vita. I play my PSP and 3ds more.
The community, hackers and modders were the only ones that kept this console alive as it could.
They even managed to have unity development on the vita, have micro sd cards work, overclock speed and perfectly emulated the psp console more faster in vita.
Sony failed by keeping sony sd cards expensive
Apparently a lot of people jailbreak their vitas and can get a lot of unique games on them. The games they did come out with were a bit rough, but over time they could have gotten better...
Funny thing that alot of psp buyer get the device for hacking and emulation,
And that the hidden potential of handheld (play NES,SNES,GB,GBC,GBA,N64,GENESIS,SATURN,CD,PS1)
Every game before the year 2000
Vita is the ONLY system that I don't want to jailbreak but I just HAVE to do it, cuz it was asking for it, it was meant to be jailbroken
The original Ds and Ds lite didn't have a memory card option and it sold 150M units together.
I blame the memory card... it made the handheld a 300 dollar sistem.
chrisgangsta Well, here in Poland I've paid not much less than that half year after the western release... oh, and it was wifi model only 🤣
Think higher. 300 was if u only wanted 12 gigs at the smallest size. Try 400 450 if u was looking for 32 or 64 gigs. N that was back n 2013 2014 it's 2019 n the system is still 250 if not a lil higher.
I spent a lot just for Minecraft
chrisgangsta they should have made the vita compatible with regular sd cards like the switch and 3ds in my opinion
Didn't the Ds sell twice as much as the psp. And the Ds didn't have 32 gb memory, which the psp did and the Ds still outsold it. Even the Ds lite sold more than the psp, and the rest was from the original Ds. So people still chose the Ds with no memory card option, and it succeeded far beyond the sony handheld
I remember picking this up in the Little Big Planet bundle in the first few months of release. I fell in love with it. Used it’s camera all the time, and had AR games that used it. The games looked stunning for a handheld at the time! I was addicted to it! But the library was so small, and wasn’t expanding fast at all. I still find myself picking it up every once in a while for Minecraft, Borderlands, EDF or Uncharted.
I picked mine back up last night, and damn it STILL looks good. Crazy how underrated and unsupported this thing was.
I still play wipeout 2048 from time to time. It has not showed its age at all it's gorgeous.
Buuuuuuut
If you still have a system and haven't checked out hotline Miami, I would highly recommend it. Fantastic game and plays like a dream on the vita
Jailbreak it then u can get alot more games. It's very powerful so u can play ps1,ps2 and PSP games on it.
@@lonelyspaceman7177 You can't play ps2 games on it... Some ports but that's it. Vita wasn't powerful enough to run ps2 games as is.
The price of the mexmory cards was never fixed, they are still expensive as hell.
Exactly, even the PSP had this issue. Sony's memory card were too expensive, compared to the DS where you don't need it and 3DS with micro SD cards
@@Smart1529
PSP to a smaller degree. Memory sticks weren't that expensive as their cameras used them at the time too. So there was 3rd party ones which were cheaper.
The Vita didn't have 3rd party cards until AFTER Sony has abandoned the Vita which is recently but they can only be used on a Vita and are stupid expensive. Cheaper just to hack the Vita and use a SD2Vita like I do.
@@LUCKO2022 the exclusivity did hurt it though. It was only really their products that used it. Meanwhile SDs and Micro SDs were not exclusive, so it's just cheaper to get those.
Let’s be honest here, the only reason any of us bothered buying a VITA was because that was the only console to play Persona 4 Golden.
I'm on my first playthrough right now
I hope u make some fond memories and have a wonderful adventure like I did.
I've finished it. I'm on new game plus now
I got a PS Vita this January and currently playing my 2nd play through of P4G. What a great handheld, but those awful memory card prices are what made me avoid the Vita initially.
I used the Vita for 2 years straight. I even abandoned my other handhelds. I had good times
I was a big fan of the PSP, but Sony pushed the Vitas ability to download games to the point, I thought that downloading them was the only way to put games in it. Not only was my internet really slow back then, but I had storage capacity concerns. I also thought that upgrading to the vita would hasten the death of physical media.
Also, the proprietary memory cards were insanely expensive. That and the prices of the games I liked with my crappy internet made getting more than three games hard. So I've had three total games since I got it back in 2014.
Cartridge was definitely still a big part of vital line up. But the problem was that no one supported them enough
@@nightmare-nightmarenightma1147 2012 was a wierd time for gaming
I remember when the Vita was announced I thought anyone who would choose the 3DS over it was an idiot. Then the memory card prices came out and instantaneously I was all in on the 3DS.
Well 3DS did really struggle during it's first year. It wasn't until they cut the price quite aggressively and got a few games out the the 3DS really took off.
If you honestly thought that, even before the Vita released, then you're the idiot. The 3DS might have been off to a slow start, but it objectively had one of the best gaming libraries of all time, and anyone with simple intuition would have been able to foresee how the system would dominate over the Vita.
All Nintendo does is make excellent games with solid hardware. It's ironic how they're criticized for providing "gimmicks" on their home consoles and handhelds, yet the PS2 literally became the best-selling console of all time simply because of an unnecessary feature in gaming (the DVD player).
EDIT: Geez, was I really that harsh?
i was lucky enough to get both and value them for different reasons. hell, my icon is from Persona 4, a game i first played on vita, but 3ds had the zelda remakes and fire emblem so it evens out
@@saalehmajiet9499 I suppose, but I just feel that the PlayStation brand only became as successful as it did because of its multimedia aspect instead of gaming itself. Nintendo has pushed video gaming so far because they focused on marrying fun gameplay with innovation and creativity, something Sony just hasn't done particularly well. Had the PS1 not been able to play CDs, it probably wouldn't have sold even 50 million.
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Don't need to watch the vid. The answer is obvious: Memory Cards
Sony keeps trying to shove their "propriety tech" onto consumers. Remember the Universal Media Disk (UMD) for the PSP? I member.
@@umersalman1 umd sold decenttly and for the time it was the correct choice because early piracy would have fucked up stuff. expensive pro duo was smart also before the msd adapters for the same reason ... psp was a hit because of content ... what killed vita was lack of content because u can now mod it and have normal msd cards via adapters exactly like psp ...
@@contytub sony has always tried to get their media tech in through their hardware. Their Blu-ray worked. Everyone uses it now. UMD was a failure because only sony used it, no one else did. Then they tried to take on SD and MicroSD. That failed too. Sony wants to create standards which is a hit or miss.
@@umersalman1 you mistake umd with pro duo from psp ... umd was a success as a distribution media for games (not movies) for the date ... is the same as with the vita ... the vita cartridges are a success for gaming distribution . what failed is the vita propietary mass storage just as the expensive pro duo . what saves both consoles are custom micro sd adapters ...
@@contytub I am not mistaken. Sony when announced UMD, was sure that in the future, movies and tv shows would also be released on the UMD and other handheld and stationary systems could also use UMD because of its large storage. Sony even released movies, tv shows and some albums via UMD, but no one used it. They only did for gaming. And that too died after PSPGo and Vita.
For more information about sony's practices
watch this
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Why during the whole video you talk about DS, PSP but completely forget about the contemporary competitor of Vita that was the 3DS, is like telling the story of the console failure forgetting one of the main points, the competition.
Seriously, I'm glad someone noticed.
you're not all that wrong but to be fair Sony did a lot more to screw up than Nintendo did. Kinda like how Microsoft boned themselves from day one with the Xbox One launch with the kinect requirement, attempt to kill used gaming, and, once again, a poor launch lineup. By the time they fixed those issues, Sony had been able to pull far ahead in public opinion. I ended up with both, and maybe its my tastes being thoroughly different then they once were, but I find myself playing Persona or MGS3 on Vita more than Zelda or Animal Crossing on my 3ds
i don’t think 3ds really plays a major part in vitas failure
Nintendo was the rival but in idea they were not as nintendo markets to kids Sony markets to teenages this is why the Psp and Vita had to be powerful handhelds. However, the ultimate killer of the psvita was the idea behind the console in fact its why the ps4 didnt fail like the xboxone. It was an all digital handheld with they stated cards to install games. Basically when you have small storage and a huge price point for more storage it means deleting would be more common than psp given you can have media on them. Plus the fact that ps3 could format a slim hdd for storage makes it worst as it meant they could make it friendly like the ps3 but they tried to push a tech that didnt sell that good with the psp. A catalog would develop if thne system showed interest as publishers flock to anything that sells well.
Because he hates Nintendo 3ds and refuse it lead to vita downfall
"PSVita too good for it's time"
I look at the Vita and still find it impressive to today's standards. If only it was marketed it as an actual psp instead of a console on the go.
What's the difference? They're both consoles on the go. That's pretty oxymoron.
@@emperorfaiz They meant 'a PS3 on the go', which is what Vita was marketed like. They focused on the AAA market which didn't exist for it.
@@TheWindowsPCVidsOfficialMakes sense. I doubt it would be good enough considering the controller input are lackluster and expensive memory card.
Honestly, even today it's a slick handheld, and the redesign is even sleeker, with a marginally worse screen.
Nintendo: "Marketing a handheld as a console on the go is a great idea!"
If sony makes a portable console with the entire PSP, PSPVita, PS1 and PS2 libraries and partial PS3 libraries with even a few games in the pipeline, I would definitely get it.
If they nintendo can get witcher 3 on the Switch, Sony shouldn't sleep on handheld because they have amassed an immense library of games over the past decades. They can make a big comeback.
You deliberately omitted the fact that 3ds existed
Because when the PSP launched, the DS existed. And the Vita sold drastically worse than both. So the change wasn't that Nintendo had another quality console - competition was always there. Sony just bungled the launch and support so much that it tanked any hype they had going, wanted to rely on indie devs without letting modders keep the damn thing afloat and then focused on having it be an expensive add on to your PS4 to use like a Wii U while you take a shit in the upstairs bathroom.
The 3DS existing was never the problem, otherwise the Wii should've died when going against the more powerful consoles. But it was supported out the fuckin wazoo - the Vita was taken out back to be gunned down like a dog, but they even failed to do that and instead kept it on life support because they felt bad
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming Well, why are you everywhere in the 3ds comments section XD. It seems that you REALLY love to spend time thinking about the 3DS.
The 3ds has aged pretty well. The 3ds lines (the old one, new one and both the XL versions) are out of production, but the 2ds lines still exist. Nine years after its initial launch, it still is getting games. This is 2019, it still has got some games in line, though they are made by nintendo themselves. The Switch has taken over. If Sony makes something similar to Switch, the so called "nintendrones" will label it as a copy. Sony should be Sony and do what they're best at. They make powerful consoles, don't they?They crushed the Wii U without copying the system.
And I am not into this console war. Sony is a rather respectable company, and it would be dumb to say something about them. I haven't owned a single sony console, but I sure will check out the PS5 in the near future, because behaving like crybabies only limits one's choices. "Nintedrones" won't be able to play Horizon Zero Dawn, Halo(the Xbox exclusive, iirc), GTA V, while the sony fans won't get a Breath Of The Wild, Super Mario Odyssey nor Smash. You're intelligent, so you get it, don't you?
- a 3ds and PC gamer ;)
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming "HaHahAHA ROASTING U 2 MUH DISCORD" ok edgy 12 year old
@@bromanr7209 12 sounds a bit too old for this dude
@@ibrahimoshodi4472
It does matter. One thing if I must name that changed- MH switched from a psp exclusive to a 3ds exclusive.
Now console MHs existed but before MHW they are barely a footnote compared to the juggernauggt that is handheld MH.
And MH's migration shows the main thing that changed between the DS and the 3ds.
The DS wasn't powerful enough to run ps2 quality titles when the psp (barely, but still) hit that benchmark. The 3ds was powerful enough. And portable devs like it better when games cost less to make.
So many people in the western market will tell you "vita had no games". Any fan of japanese games will tell you that the vita had some of the best games of all time and was one of the best consoles in history. Vita is a JRPG gold mine.
The problem is that that was basically it's ONLY genre.
@@thebravegallade731 "only genre"
Visual novel is a genre (like danganronpa/zero escape)
Jrpg is a different genre (like persona)
Strategy RPG is a genre (like disgaea)
Dynasty warriors style games are a genre
Monster hunter style games (like god eater, toukiden) are a different genre.
Rhythm games (like project diva) are a genre.
Dungeon crawlers are a genre (like Mary skelter and omega labirinth Z ... oh wait ; )
The problem was started after playstation main HQ going to California from Tokyo.
@@Tofu3435
You can chop it down a bit (I myself love strategy RPGs) but... With the other genres the 3ds has better offerings for the most part. In JRPGs it's basically a tie all things considered and Vita really only has visual novels as it's strength vs the 3ds.
Strategy RPG? The biggest name in THAT genre (at least on consoles) is a ninty first party.
Monster hunting games? God eater only took off because MH4 was only on 3ds.
Dynasty warriors? Ppl who play that genre mostly play on home consoles for pretty obvious reasons.
@@thebravegallade731 GE has always been a better, faster MH with an actual story since PSP
@@hellfire92837 well, maybe so.
But the recent GE sales on PS4 shows that... Not a lot of people care? For God eater Now that MH is on ps4
I am kind of puzzled ... did your forget about the main Vita competitor?
The 3ds outsold the Vita a lot. The DS was already dead that when the Vita was launched.
He said The DS Family, reffering to the line of DS/3DS Systems.
@@weene875 but 3DS is other line of Nintendo handheld consoles. It just doesn't make sense to fuse them both into one family
@@rakonprodukcje255 DS lite ftw
I see almost no difference between the two. Both were basically the gold standard of their times, and nowadays the 2DS is just as, if not more, prevalent than the 3DS. I don’t know if calling it the 2DS over the 3DS changes things, as they are both the same hulking competitor in this context.
Lol the 3ds had similar specs and power as the psp had and it did pretty well on the market
I never saw a Vita Commercial in my life.
That led to a class action lawsuit
Anyone else remembers DAXTER from the PSP
That was my childhood game and one of my favorites
"People don't really buy handheld consoles to play immersive AAA games for hours and hours on end"
If not for the games, people mostly bought the Nintendo Switch for portability so I don't know what your talking about lol. I think your previous point made more sense:
1. The Vita, memory cards, the games were (and still are!) way too expensive
2. Proprietary memory cards
3. No first party titles.
Psvita canned the video output option though. That might have helped a lot of they actually did it.
PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming 1. Why do achievements make a console bad? 2. Yeah I admit that's bad. 3. It's a console hybrid and every other console uses paid online. Dumbass, of course he's going to lose a arguement there when he's probably going to have to debate against like 10 people. Bet you won't do the same for any Nintendo subreddit. Calling us corporate slaves when Sony charged people 100 dollars for a 64 GB memory card. 👌🏿👌🏿
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming 1. I can live without achievements
2. Everyone agrees that's bad
3. Every console on the market has paid online (sadly..)
The vita had features but it lacked the selling point of a console, GAMES!!!!!!!
Yes it had a few cool games, THAT'S IT! Where was the new God of War?
Where was the rumored InFamous game?
Where was Bioshock vita?
Where was Vita's GTA? Seriously even the DS had a GTA!!
Point is without big games (more then 5!), you can't sell a console .
PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming Salty about what?, that the PS Vita failed.
PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming What just like the PS Vita and PlayStation move were "better". Oh wow the PS Vita all over again. Bruh honestly you should be a comedian.
Short answer: Greed and a lack of good games
^ lack of games 👍🏿
PSP go back to its waiting for u
I still play my PSP games. They're like my third generation of undying games. PS1, PS2 and PSP have some timeless friends in me.
PS3 is very very very close as well, but I simply haven't played the majority of the hit PS3 titles yet. Couple more years I'll know for sure if the PS3 is ever going to fade from my memory.
The Vita wasn't even a generation... it was just bad. I really wanna call it something worse, but it truly meant nothing to me after I saw how ridiculously expensive it was going to be. Then there were no decent games to get pumped about....
Honestly, all of the bad shtuff people have to say about it is kind of true. So why would anyone be surprised if it fell off the planet? (Honestly, I thought the 3DS was bad too. The entire 3D feature just seemed extremely novel- and less like "3D Gaming". Meh. Both of those handhelds were ugly and horrible imo.)
Because Sony didn't bother to support it.
There. Saved you 13 minutes.
thatquirkyredhead Sony supported it the people didn’t
No one wants to pay 60 to 90 bucks on a memory card.
Thanks
I feel that you were pretty spot on with connecting a lack of indie game advertising to the Vita's failure. I feel that the Switch has done extremely well by pushing indie titles to the forefront because they come out much more often at a much lower price than AAA, thus making the console much more exciting and enticing to a consumer. Now that the user base is there we are seeing a lot more AAA games coming to the Switch, which may have been able to happen for the vita too if they had taken a different approach to their inital advertising.
I loved my vita still pissed off at sony to this day
0:42 Nah nah, 2006 is like 5 years ago, 6 tops. And that's settled.
Time flies by too fast 😫😢
Damn I got one of these on Christmas at my grandpas house. Now he’s gone. I got to find this bad boy and play it for the memories.
Ronnie Jr I’m sorry for you’re loss. You should play you’re Vita again! I started playing mine again recently. I haven’t touched it since 2015. So far it’s been great replaying games like Uncharted and KillZone. I loved the Vita when it came out, I was only 12 and now I’m 20 so it’s cool replaying it and experiencing nostalgia for it.
Matt Seseri I dont mean to sound like a dickhead, but please learn the difference between your and you’re!
Here’s an example: You’re old enough to know better. Your grammar isn’t very good, bud.
Anyways, RIP to homie’s Grandfather! The PSVita seems awesome, I wish I had one. But I just recently bought a PSP again after mine was stolen like 10 years ago, and its just as awesome as I remember!
Leo Velli kid I’m probably older then you 😂 No need to be a grammar nazi on the internet. I don’t need to use proper grammar on UA-cam this isn’t an essay for school lmao.
Honestly, when they lowered the price of the Memory Cards they didn't lower them by much. Had Sony used a Micro SD card....the Vita would be a smash hit. People wanted to like it...Sony just wouldn't let people like it.
Nintendo: "It's free real estate."
People here who have a dusty unused Vita, go look Henkaku and H-Encore.
You can jail break your vita and pirate games and play emulators and more.
Henkaku is the reason my Vita is clean and shinny today. It was super dusty before Henkaku.
Also Trinity, the new exploit just released, in the case that you have your Vita on 3.69 or 3.70
Awesome
Piracy is for losers.
vita already flop hard enought, have some mercy
There's people buying the Switch to only play portable, so there is a market for portable AAA its just the Vita didn't have many of them outside of JRPGS of course.
switch sidn't have them as well
@@maximkonechno8742 Switch has lots of AAA games now (the Outer Worlds just got announced a few days ago!)
It's Sony's faul for not supporting the vita!
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming k
@PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming ok bro, go ahead
@@danipatac7210 k sir. dynamic res+20-30 fps is pretty gud for aaa
It's just too damn expensive for a handheld gaming console.
^ Bingo.
@Chotto-chan
It's a damn good price for a system that can run current gen games and do so *portably*
Only system I ever bought multiple units of
I did focus testing for one of the Vita launch titles and remember being really excited for its release. However I kept waiting for more exclusives and games that made use of the unique hardware, but so few came that I ended up not buying a vita until after the system was fully hacked.
LittleBigPlanet Vita is one the best games on the system, it's the full LBP experience with a touchscreen
Yes i used to hook up some girls in the lobbies and then Start playing on other RPG worlds😂
Such big Nostalgia
Yeah that's the only game that I still play on my vita but that was a while ago, and now it just sits in a drawer the switch to me seems a much better console and am loving it
PlayerPerPerson Personal Gaming I own both a ps4 and a switch so I love both consoles
@@therunawaykid6523 same here, i always felt like most choose a Sony/Microsoft side but just have Nintendos console as well (unless it was the Wii U)
Yeah... Sometimes I'm like "why tf is there a back touchscreen, just increased the cost by too much" and sometimes I'm like "this back touchscreen is so cool!"
PSP was LIT. Fucking loved that thing. However, im gonna be honest. I thought the ps Vita was just a slightly upgraded PSP so I didn't get it.
"That slightly upgraded PSP" had the potential as well as the capability to run triple A games that were similiar, if not on par with a home console's.
Right analog added, fat version with OLED, and imo the build quality for both fat and slim are better. But Vita game library sucks that i have more PSP games than Vita lol.
@@rajut_lensa I agree there... Vita could have been more if it was marketed for the right developers and publishers.
@@rajut_lensa PSP had more games because a lot of third party devs existed while the time the vita came out, a lot started to go out of business or was barely dying so they choose other options to make more profit for the beleive of surviving somehow.
Kid Wawvy majority of them do lol no nba games nor nfl or soccer and baseball games no gta games nor kingdom hearts and it’s only one final fantasy game and that’s the world of final fantasy which I hardly played psp had the best games and if u even want those on the vita u have to hack it that’s if your ps vita on the right firmware
I miss my PSP and my iPod so bad 😭😪 those were the days...
Ayyyyye, nice video length!
“To good for it’s time” . Yeah that sounds an awful like what happened to the Dreamcast.
Except the Dreamcast was awesome.
Am I the only person that thinks that stupid ugly bubble chat menu they replaced the XMB with is a quick turn-off? There is like a 2 out of 5 aesthetic just looking at the main menu on any picture of a Vita... you can argue that I'm nitpicking, but honestly- a lot of bad designs contributed to people not wanting this thing too imo.
Realllyyyy look at it and compare it to the PSP or even a DS. The Vita is just plain ugly besides all the bad decisions regarding memory cards, game titles and the 3G crud. To me 3G sounded cool, until I realized it meant you'd be paying for an extra cell service on the side of your PS Plus subscription AND the actual internet. When you add up how much it would cost just to truly experience the Vita when it launched- you'd have been spending maybe just a couple hundred shy of a thousand. Then you're paying monthly on two separate services with no games being released?
Come on. I can only see young kids that got this thing as their first personal game console truly loving it. Otherwise, the Vita wasn't going to pull in many previous fans besides the ones riding the hype.
(Funny story, my first personal game console ever was actually a Dreamcast. I still have it too, the black Sega Sport edition. Lol)
This is unfortunate as a topic for me because I play my PS VITA more than my 3DS. I still play the Legend of Heroes games on it. I probably will continue to use it consistently for years to come. Hopefully they won't shut the online store down entirely anytime soon. I've got more I want to buy for it eventually. It's so great.
Is the psvita online gaming
Intelligence Paradigm I still play mine too I play the most wanted racing game and Minecraft
Getting one of these for Christmas was such an amazing feeling. That was years ago and I have since sold it
You nailed it, I was stuck with an 8gb memory and every time I went to GameStop to see what games to get I found the same 30 games on the shelf
Marketing and greed was the greatest downfall of the vita.
^ lack of games. It seemed promising
Failed is an overstatement as people still play, it has a library that nobody ever thought it would
have and even after it's "long gone" people will still play if they have one or try and find one. 🏆
the point you made about time commitment is so true. I played the MGS collection on my Vita, and i just kept thinking that these games are horrible for handheld. How did anyone think that a handheld gamer on the go would have time to watch 3 hours of cutscenes?
Having owned one, the greatest mistake with the vita was the memory card, it was expensive and transfer speed was so slow it was so disappointing.
I mean, the PSVita is more memorable than the Nokia N-Gage.
But you can play The Elder Scrolls with up to 3 other people on the N-Gage.
@@nintendogamer1926 Yeah, Shadowkey, a spin-off... I played the game, it was fun.
@@andreasjmartins I liked it too. Too bad the port of Oblivion for the PSP was canceled.
i didnt even know what a vita was until 2015 while looking for a new psp to buy for old times sake. i decided to get the vita and i loved it and have it til this day in 2019. cheers to hoping they make another handeld
I have two. The original and the 2nd revision one. I love my vita.
Hope you run Henkaku on it.
The PSVita should’ve really been called “The Persona Vita” since that was the only game people bought the thing for
PErsonA 4 GOLDEN
Seriously? I know it's a different type of game, and honestly I never played it.... but if the most popular game for the Vita was a highschool based RPG looking like FF Tactics.... that's just tragic. The Vita's 2nd best game must have been Tetris Plus.
@@SacredMilkOG its not even an exclusive, its biggest upside was being able to play the game without your parents walking in and seeing a blushing anime girl on your screen
It looks pretty bad when your shiny hand held consoles best game is a port of a visual novel/dungeon crawler made for the ps2
When they first announced the PSP Vita at the beginning of the year, it was ahead of it's time. By the time they released it at the year, it was outdated with 512 MB Ram and qHD (960 x 544). If it had 1GB of RAM and an HD (1280 X 720) screen like the new smartphones around launch, it would have been worth it. Just my opinion.
But still holds up
I’m pretty sure the vita could still produce far better looking phones at that time due to all the crap the phone runs at once.
Bro the PsVita was big, especially over seas. Sadly it wasn’t as big here as it was there but it was seriously a great handheld for a bunch of games. Mostly JRPGs but there were also amazing platformers and even some great FPS.
Again, the psp used to be even bigger overseas. On a global view, it is clear that Vita failed on both ends.
Vita was never big in Europe, Japan accounted for like 80% of its sales, and Sony makes so little money in Japan it was pointless to cater to the Japanese market.
Vita was never big in southeast asia, psp on the other hand....
It wasn't big in here in Africa but almost everyone I know at one point owned or played on a psp
Short Version: the super expensive memory cards were the reason it failed.
I'm an alternate universe, the Vita turns into PlayStation' s version of the Switch
I remember being so hyped about the PSVita when it was coming out. It was my dream handlheld. It was perfect indeed. Yet I never got one because there was no games that really made it worth it.
At 10:07 were you watching breaking bad??
It’s a great show tho
Also great video, I never really knew that much about the ps vita.
Alex Prevoo you a ela main ?
ps vita didn’t fail me that’s more important.
"People don't want to play triple a games on the go with an immersive experience, if they wanted to play those games they would buy a home console."
Switch Lite: ...
I much rather play the witcher 3 or doom eternal on a ps5 rather than switch. I use it mostly for mario, zelda and other games.
Fantastic video! I learned a lot. =]
The PSP was my favorite handheld ever when I was a kid cause of the racing games you could get. I completed underground rivals so many times and midnight club 3. When the vita came out I bought one but the problem for me was games. I never could find any. Every time I would go to game stop they would have maybe 5 games and they were super cheap boring games and not the better ones like MGS or borderlands 2. It was an awesome console but I never could find any damn games for it.
I used to play my vita everyday... Until I got a Nintendo switch
Yeah that's the same for me I thought the vita would have a lot of varied console quality games but it just didn't, whereas the switch has full open world games such as: Lego city undercover,A knights quest, legend of zelda breath of the wild, skyrim. Also what I'm most excited about is little nightmares 2 coming next year!!!!!
I have a Switch, still play my Vita more though. Probably because of all the mods I put on my Vita
Joer'ct Drew You’re a rare breed. Not many found the value in the Vita to mod it. Sounds like a lot of money to sink into something objectively inferior to its similarly priced TV console counterpart. I guess if you absolutely have to have a portable console, and are willing to spend the cash, you do you.
I got a 2nd hand vita recently and it's really fun to play on the go, the only problem I have with it is those memory cards, even a second hand memory card, the price was slightly dropped but it was still a bit expensive
12: 35 i'd have to disagree about being unable to pause whenever. Putting the vita in sleep mode is better than closing the ds imo as far as battery life. Gamewise it does the same thing, but i lost my vita for a whole month and when i had finally found it the battery was still going strong. Most amazing thing. The vita will always hold a special place in my heart
The Vita: the perfect example of death by feedback loop.
Also, no mention of the whole 3G cellular deal with ATT? That shitstorm was HILARIOUS.
@chris villatoro In a way, yes it did. The first couple of years were harsh on the PS4, yes you had games, but the first party exclusives were initially few and far between. Sony literally pulled all of their inhouse studios to PS4 development including those that would typically handle Vita titles.
The PS4 could have also helped if Sony would have released a PS4 Vita bundle; the PS4 was moving units at about 15 million+ per year and currently is around 100 million+, if the Vita would have added 10 million units to the userbase it would still be here.
honestly its sad how expensive the memory cards are. if it wasnt so expensive i believe it would have sold at least double of its sales.
No one:
UA-cam: watch a video about why ps Vita failed
Me: but I never owned a ps Vita but I'll watch it
STOP oh yeah yeah disease thousand
That’s why it failed right there ;). Barely anyone owned one. I loved the idea, but I was unimpressed with the cost and game selection.
@@vincelestrade3758 if anyone can still provide a good hand console it's always Nintendo
STOP oh yeah yeah disease thousand Agreed
As much as I love the Vita, my biggest gripe was the cost of the memory cards. The biggest one I have is 16GB. As much as I would love to get a bigger sized memory card, the prices are way too extortionate.
If I recall, Sony prevented 3rd party memory cards from being used.
The proprietary memory was a big no for me. I had to install a CFW to finally enjoy it
I think really the biggest reason the PS Vita failed was because of the fact it was essentially a handheld that tried too hard to be like a console. The reason Nintendo is highly successful with their handhelds is because they have a good understanding of what people expect and want from a handheld system. It also helps that many of their games translate well into a portable experience. It also probably didn't help the Vita either that it released right around the time the 3DS was actually starting to recover and take off. When you think about it, the Nintendo Switch uses a lot of the same concepts and features of the Vita but with far better implementation and execution.
i used to have one of these and later sold it/took it back. i don’t recall why, but i still wish it didn’t die off.
Around 10:15 - While it might have been due to lack of games games, I bigger reason for the system failure, as people said, was the memory cards. The system didn't sell well, BECAUSE people weren't going to spend $100's of extra for memory cards.
So, they just never bought the system when they found out the hidden costs.
I know you mentioned it was due to lack of games, but the lack of system's sales, were mainly due to the memory cards.
So, with lack of sales, you didn't see as many games. Memory cards caused lack of sales and many devs went elsewhere.
While I understand Sony wanted to prevent piracy by using their own cards, they failed by making the system pretty much not worth it with the extra costs. Had Sony been smart and just used MicroSD cards, I honestly think the PS Vita would have sold better as MicroSD cards were cheaper than Sony's cards.
Sony then could have just done a better job at the Vita security if they were really concerned with piracy.
I do agree they shouldn't have marketed it as a "AAA experience on the go" but instead should have marketed it as an upgraded and successor to the PSP. Doing this wouldn't isolate it to AAA games and cover everybody.
I mean saying "It's for AAA games on the go" is kinda a middle finger to indie devs as in that statement, you don't even acknowledge them. Saying it's an upgrade and successor to the PSP, is a more neutral approach is far more accurate.
In short, Sony shot themselves in the foot with the Vita.
It was the system that could have done well, but failed due to their own stupid decisions.
Tearaway and Gravity Rush made the system amazing for me! Some of the best games I have ever played. Makes me sad that Sony gave up on it early on.
Sony: Welcome to the world Vita, your name means "life"
Several years later....
Sony: You're dead to me!
Not even years more like a year 😂
@@jacobdelgado7343 I was being generous Haha! You're right, not even Resident Evil 4 made its way to the vita, I remember capcom port it almost on every device they can find on the earth
@@AbdulRahman-hm4cw resident evil revelations 2 made it onto the vita, but it looked like an unfinished game.
@@irawanadinugraha1527 I first play it on vita with all the extra episode, it was okay except for long loading time! But the ending even for good ending make it as you say incomplete game, feel like Revelation 3 tease or something but idk
@@AbdulRahman-hm4cw its a finished game story wise. But not graphics wise and especially why the hell the zombies blocky af. But other than that thebgame has probably a really good game gameplay wise
12:20 You can do this on the Vita. Just click the power button. You come back to where you left off when you turn it back on. I found that out while playing through P4G and being in between save points.
I recall that one time Sony banked hard on Call of Duty being the saving grace for the Vita in the west. That game was "Black Ops: Declassified" and it was a disaster.
Broo, Cars 2 on the gameboy was such a good game!
Hope you played Gravity Rush, that game is too awesome to skip
Upset that I never beat it, still one of the most interesting of those open world superhero type games
and soul sacrifice delta
Gravity Rush is on the PS4 now and it's sequel as well. Get it there
And it's available on PS Now as well and you can download it to your hard drive.
I got my first Ps Vita from winning letter of the month in Edge magazine December 2013. I used to buy that mag every month along with Games, Empire, and Total Film. Bygone days.
Its been so long that I haven't had my PSP, that I can't even remember when it disappeared from my life. But i do remember that one of my favourites games ever is UNTOLD LEGENDS: BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE
On the bright side it sold more then the WII U
True! Doesnt mean much though when the Switch is going to surpass Xbox1 this year and already Surpassed PS4 in Japan. Its basiclly the vita done right
That's kind of crazy when you think about it because even though the Wii U was flopping Nintendo still made an effort to release really good first party titles up until the Switch came out, whereas Sony stopped making retail first party games during 2014. That year had 1 actual AA game which was Freedom Wars.
It's clear Sony didn't think about the long term with their development for Vita games or they just told all their first party studios to go straight onto PS4 after the disappointing sales of the Vita.
proof that's not VGChartz?
Hopefully Sony has learned from their proprietary BS. Apple they ain't.
I can't believe i am defending Apple, but honestly a dongle and a charging cable are not that expensive, they are awful but sustainable. Imagine if they gave you an iPhone without a battery and one that barely works costs 40 bucks and the optimal one 120. I think even Apple sheeps would get upset
ik this video is 3 years old, but 250$ in 2012 is a huuuuuge amount, at the time people knew the ps4 was right around the corner and they knew roughly how much it would cost. no one in 2012 was jumping to spend 300$ for a handheld, people where still hesitant about the switch 5 years later, but it had so many more spectacular features
Good on you for getting the original model with the OLED screen. Which is amazing
I remember the frustration i felt when i finally got my PS Vita and couldn't play a game i had bought because i didn't have a card. Yet i loved the PS Vita, i actually have the fat, the slim and the PS TV.
Sony got greedy with the memory cards and they should have emphasized the importance of indie games for the console.
Those Games could have helped that Console
9:44 had this video was not suggested to me, I wouldn't remember it existed
the psp had a nice feature where using the off switch didnt fully turn it off, and the game started right where you left off. (i had the 3000 model, not sure if others did). kinda sad to see that the vita didnt have the same feature
Yea that was the best, the sleep mode thing. I have the 1001 and it did it too so I wonder why the vita didnt have it
I remember getting this with call of duty on my birthday. My uncle got me it and I was at a cafe. Got this provided me with some of my best memories. Even if it flopped, I loved it and I still do. Even though I am a XBOX player, I still thank sony for this.
Edit: I also played probably 100+ hours on Minecraft on it. I played a lot of Terraria too.
Good yes. Perfect? No. The moment they had proprietary sd cards it was not.
Honestly the Memory cards don't feel like the nail in the coffin. A big annoyance and overpriced? Yes.
I feel like if Sony had properly supported the Vita and gotten more AAA titles on the system it would have done as well as the PSP. At least until the Switch came out, then that would have been the start of the end.
@@MrSupersonic2012 yeah I agree. Look at the Switch, an expensive console lacking features vita still has till this day (like a brower where I can still watch shows and movies on n web surf, party chat with other vita players and connect to psn, ETC ) but I suppose the hardware was easy to make software for plus affordable commercial SD card options and local connectivity to a TV without the need for wifi (like vita, very poor idea btw) made it a Gangbuster of a hybrid console.
Hey you should EQ that really loud frequency out of your vocal track. Low mids somewhere
I bought a Vita back in 2013 because I loved my PSP and was excited for a sequel to it. I ended up barely touching it because of the lack of physical games and the cost of the memory cards. The memory cards making using it as a digital only console expensive as fuck. It wasn't until last year when I decided to check if it had been hacked yet, and discovering it had, that I picked it up again. Now I actually use it. Given it's gain in popularity thanks to the homebrew scene, and specifically homebrew enabling the use of SD cards, I think this console would have definitely sold better had it launched with SD support and not proprietary memory.
It's should've just been called the PSP 2 and it would've sold better I remember people would ask me what it was and when I said PS Vita they were like what's that? But then I tell them it's the new PSP they were got it.
I had the same experience lol. I've even heard people say this year how come they never released a PSP2, that's how bad the Vita was known to general audiences. Both the Wii U and Vita's branding were a big downfall for both of them.
In a short way it was simply because of the overpriced memory cards and the lack of consistency in bringing console quality games to the system.
Great video but damn I feel old watching it lol. My last handheld console was the GameBoy color.
Still got my modded psp. I pulled it out of storage recently and the battery expanded and was popping out.
Sony didn’t give a crap about the Vita, they only cared about making overpriced memory cards, Why make a console if your going to abandon it. R.I.P PS Vita 2012-2019
i didnt know this existed until now and it seems pretty fun thou
Honestly, I feel the Vita was sort of trapped between the shift from dedicated handhelds to the "bring your console games on the go" gap.
The PSP, DS, 3DS were all dedicated handheld systems and were the latest thing and Sony didn't want to go too far from the status-quo or didn't have the foresight to think that playing console-level games would be fitting on a TV as well.
Nintendo seemingly understood that aspect and made the Switch with it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they learned from Vita's mistakes.
I do say that if Sony held the Vita back just a bit longer to get good enough hardware to make it sort of like a "PS3P" properly but based on ARM so devs can easily downgrade games from the PS4 onto it, then I feel that the system would've lived into today with us getting a PS4P around a year or two ago.
It solves the same problem that Nintendo did with the Switch, one platform to develop games for, and it would also solve that problem for Sony.
Great video!!