Kotaku on why the Vita is struggling: it's all Sony

[cmdrdredd]

Its like a catch 22. No users means devs don't make lots of games and no games means no users. So either everyone has to buy it and hope that sales bring the deva over to make games or the devs make games and hope people buy one to play those games.

Neither seems to be happening. Probably up to Sony to entice development.

 

[Aikouka]

Here's an interesting conundrum with the Vita. I went to get Persona 4 Golden tonight, and pretty much no store has it in stock. Gamestop was the only place that had it, and ugh... I hate buying games that are already open as removing the shrink wrap is half the fun! Anyway, from what I've seen, Persona 4 Golden is probably considered one of the best Vita games right now, but it's not readily available. That doesn't seem like a good thing.

 

[cmdrdredd]

It was released somewhat under the radar. I don't think a lot of people knew about its release immediately. A few best buys in my area have it and some not. I think the shipments were small. I did not see it in my local walmart . dedicated gaming stores are more likely to carry it.

 

[Bubba77]

Buy it on psn? Thats what i did. Except for hot shot golf and uncharted all my vita games are digital download. I love having it all at my fingertips without cartridge swapping. The download versions are cheaper too in most cases

 

[kache]

Much more importantly, they didn't release this version, which would have boosted sales a lot:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Misju7hWI...tion_vita+psv+ps_vita+pun+sony+tagme+vita.jpg

 

[Aikouka]

Buy it on psn? Thats what i did. Except for hot shot golf and uncharted all my vita games are digital download. I love having it all at my fingertips without cartridge swapping. The download versions are cheaper too in most cases

Eh, they're $5 cheaper, but then you have to make sure you won't fill up your card doing so. Persona has all the cutscenes and spoken dialog, so I'd worry about it being too big.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I store all my games on the PS3 and transfer over only the ones I will be playing immediately.

Like with Playstation Plus, you get Gravity rush, Uncharted, Wipeout, alien blobs attack, final fantasy tactics, and jet set radio free. I download them to PS3 and load only the couple games I am playing and delete them from my Vita when finished.

This could have been 100% avoided if I had the ability to plug in a MicroSD card (64GB is cheap by comparison).

 

[Bubba77]

I have the 32 gb card. I have lbp, p4g, mlb show, play all stars, sine mora, lumines, super star delta, rayman, blaz blue, 5 psp games, 3 ps1 games ff7-9 and a few others i cant think of right now all currently installed from psnHavent run out of room yet.

 

[dagamer34]

Their flaw, much like the PSP, was launching a console after the holiday season.