It's no secret I loved the PSP. Syphon Filter, Megaman, God of War, the Konami shmup collections, Jeanne D’Arc, Everybody's Golf (Hot Shots Golf to most of you) and the series I spent far far too much time on...
Monster Hunter.
The PSP didn't sell amazingly, no one really sees it as a big success and it never came close to taking anything away from Nintendo. Monster Hunter pretty much made the PSP in Japan. Even if no other game was made for it Capcom could have probably carried that system on those games alone. Else where... well, not so much... at all.
The Vita has no Monster Hunter. This is bad news for Japan (and me - though Portable 3rd kinda sucked anyway...).
But well, the system has HUGE problems in the west. It's no secret that the FPS genre is the most popular and Resistance sucked on it. It was probably the most important game on the system, it was to show what a FPS could be on the Vita and attract a fair share of the market (well at least turn some heads away from the big screens).
So then CoD was pushed. But well, for some reason it was being made by the same people who made the Vita's Resistance. The same people who had already made a crap FPS. And... it was crap! Who'd seen that coming?
Gravity Rush wasn't the must-buy game it was hyped to be, no big RPG exists on it, it's failed twice on big names to have a good FPS and as Christmas approaches I still can't justify why someone should buy one.
Sure Soul Sacrifice is looking cool but I fear it's too late now. After a nice set of launch titles first party releases just seem to have died (minues All-Stars, which is on the PS3 as well).
The fact that the Vita has been out-sold by the PSP on occasions doesn't fill me with confidence ever. The Vita is a damn good device (minus the crap dashboard) but like the PSP (even more so) the question of "Where are the games?" is just ever present.
So, I ask - is the Vita dead? Will it even surpass the PSP in sales? Does anyone even care about it?
Monster Hunter.
The PSP didn't sell amazingly, no one really sees it as a big success and it never came close to taking anything away from Nintendo. Monster Hunter pretty much made the PSP in Japan. Even if no other game was made for it Capcom could have probably carried that system on those games alone. Else where... well, not so much... at all.
The Vita has no Monster Hunter. This is bad news for Japan (and me - though Portable 3rd kinda sucked anyway...).
But well, the system has HUGE problems in the west. It's no secret that the FPS genre is the most popular and Resistance sucked on it. It was probably the most important game on the system, it was to show what a FPS could be on the Vita and attract a fair share of the market (well at least turn some heads away from the big screens).
So then CoD was pushed. But well, for some reason it was being made by the same people who made the Vita's Resistance. The same people who had already made a crap FPS. And... it was crap! Who'd seen that coming?
Gravity Rush wasn't the must-buy game it was hyped to be, no big RPG exists on it, it's failed twice on big names to have a good FPS and as Christmas approaches I still can't justify why someone should buy one.
Sure Soul Sacrifice is looking cool but I fear it's too late now. After a nice set of launch titles first party releases just seem to have died (minues All-Stars, which is on the PS3 as well).
The fact that the Vita has been out-sold by the PSP on occasions doesn't fill me with confidence ever. The Vita is a damn good device (minus the crap dashboard) but like the PSP (even more so) the question of "Where are the games?" is just ever present.
So, I ask - is the Vita dead? Will it even surpass the PSP in sales? Does anyone even care about it?