I had a vita, I thought it was the perfect system. Just that it didn't have many games I wanted to play. Most of the games I played weren't vita games and since it lacked a UMD drive it limited what games you could play too. If they had digital versions of all their physical games then it wouldn't be so bad.
It's dead, they aren't releasing anything let alone something that would make their overpriced memory cards obsolete. Even if it gets opened up properly I would think twice because at some point I would want more storage and I refuse to pay those prices. Shame, could have been a sweet handheld.
I'm still holding out hope someone can make a Vita-Micro SD adapter. Unfortunately it won't be able to properly fit in the thing, but at least I won't have to spend a buttload on storage. I just got a Vita slim, and it does have one massive advantage, a regular Micro USB port, so I won't have to go fumbling around for cords in 3 years when I decide to play something for it and the battery's dead. BTW there's no way I'd get a Vita new with no physical slot unless it had at least 64GB built in.
How big are Vita games anyways? I never understood people wanting to carry 50+ games around with them - I'm OK with having 4-6 that I actually play, since these days it's almost never a problem to get access to a PC to swap them out if need be.
I don't have 50 games, but I would like to have a bigger memory stick for the convenience of being able to just step outside. Moving the games takes a while because the PSVita uses USB 2.0. Some of my games are about 4GB in size, partly because of DLCs. If you delete a game, you also delete its save data. You will also have to move the game, DLCs and data if you transfer content. So I really don't feel comfortable with moving my data around too much. I think that the icon placement will also be affected. PSVita Memory sticks here have really come down in prices around here in Singapore, although I just don't feel like getting a new one because my current sticks will become unused. Not everything is sold in the PSN (also region-locked), plus those of us who are contrained by region-locking will appreciate physical copies because only physical copies are truly region-free. Even if they do someday (and somehow) decide to ban all of us who are (illegally) using Japanese accounts, our games are still safe.
I swear man those memory cards are like made of gold, why cant they implement micro SD cards. Would be great if a PS Vita Go ever happens.
They started that shit with the PSP Go which had expensive cards which are too small to be used in an adapter. In fact someone on here made an external dongle soldered internally: http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/micro-sd-on-pspgo.56081/ I bought an 8gb card for mine, clicked "buy it now" with a grimace on my face! It's anti-consumer tactics like that which really turn me off companies, it's understandable that they are using the cards to recoup lost cash from the Vita hardware (selling it at a comparable price to the 3DS) but their prices are crazy. It's like the price of PSP games on their online store compared to used UMDs when the Go was released - total kick in the teeth for people who had just bought the PSP Go and they wonder why it bombed. I think they could only sell Vita hardware now if it was piracy friendly or they did serious discounts on storage and games. I agree that 64gb is a minimum amount these days, on my GPD XD I have 128gb total storage and it's full. Unfortunately nobody really paid any attention to the Vita when it was released, it's forgotten now and Sony aren't going to invest any money in it.
To be fair, they did run a "send us your UMDs and we'll put the game on your account" program for a while.
I think that the memory sticks being proprietary, has got to do with DRM. Like with how every game company (including SONY) at least once required a proprietary HDD for their consoles. Thank goodness that SONY realized why that was a bad idea, and got rid of that. BTW, why is everyone saying that the PSVita is forgotten? Is it because everyone here is from the west? Isn't it only dead in that part?
I own an original gen 3G Vita, paid £280 and queued up outside the shop on launch day, bought a Slim the other week when Henkaku was announced for homebrew and mods/fansubs/etc, would gladly buy a third if it used regular SD cards.
Nothing announced regarding the Vita today, of course. Just some shinier game consoles that will jack up your electric bill.
It's been abandoned for a while in the UK and I assume Europe and the USA as well. It was pushed here as a PS4 accessory for a while however they barely advertised it to begin with, before Sony ignored it completely they tried to reposition it as an indie console (basically they didn't want to bring over AAA titles from the Japanese market) however they were all games you can play on Steam or Android already for a fraction of the price.
Yeah and physical releases are becoming more and more uncommon, even games that are getting physical releases in the US are progressively becoming digital only in the UK/EUR, which is bad from a collecting point of view.
I've actually been thinking about this, and I think Sony has had troubles with their portables because they release them a year or two before they release a new home system (the PSP was released a year and a half before the PS3 in the US, and the Vita was about a year exactly). Now, that's totally understandable from a hardware perspective (it's expensive to R&D and manufacture a crapload of new hardware, so they split it into as many fiscal years as possible), but Sony seems to completely forget the handheld exists a year or so after the new console comes out. New PSP news got slower and slower after the PS3 came out, and the Vita was ignored in the US after the PS4 sold like hotcakes on its debut.
I have Vita (slim) and 4 physical games. Tried to find a copy of Ys Celceta for a reasonable price, well... henkaku to the rescue. And there's no reason for me to use it for anything else, Neo-Geo/CPS-1,2 emulators maybe, but i made a decent gamepad with phone holder and external battery for my Redmi Note 3 and it runs waaay better and runs much more, from DOS games to Dreamcast. Sony with their stupid attempts to sell overpriced memory cards killed the system. 64Gb memory card for the same price as the system itself? You can buy 15 32Gb MicroSD cards for the price of Vita 32Gb memory card. Digital releases my ass! Where to download them? Spend 180 bucks to store 30 games? No.
Huh? Ys Celceta is about $20 physical unless it's somehow more expensive elsewhere. People are paying full price and more for new games and LTD run if you've seen Vita collector threads.
Another issue connected with that is they want a really powerful handheld to push AAA games on, the problem being that those games cost a ton of money and development time which they utilise for their home console, essentially they're competing against themselves for resources. PSP had a lot of 3rd party support which was missing this time around. I still think the Vita could have been saved to some extent with some well chosen PS2 ports, it could handle Shadow of the Colossus, Resi 4, Black etc. You would think with Resi HD remakes selling well and the Team ICO remaster doing pretty well they would have done something like that, hell if those games had been released I would have bought one at launch! Nintendo have never been shy to maximise the potential of their old games with handheld ports, Sony just lumped emulated PS1 titles over from the PSP and forgot the gems of the PS2 era.
