15 million units

>15 million units

How did this fail as badly as the Wii U?

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No games. I could have gotten a new Vita including 8 indie games for 90€ more than 3 years ago. I decided to get a 3DS XL instead simply because there were no games on the Vita that interested me.

Having home ports on the go was only cool when the switch started doing it.

No, the wii U sold 13 million units. It outsold a major Nintendo home console.

It failed worse, those numbers are double embarrassing for a handheld rather than a home console, and all it's killer apps went to the PS4

proprietary memory

Estimates are around 18-20 millions though.

No monster hunter

>as badly
Still has games being made desu

I kind of like my vita to play PS1 games on the go.
I touch my Vita more than my PS4, although not nearly as much as my PS3.

I cant think of a single game thats exclusive to the system

The PSP had so many great games

>I cant think of a single game thats exclusive to the system
That's because you don't know shit about it, user.

Outsold Nintendos worst ever console.. by a whopping 2 million. It failed as badly as the Wii U.

2 million is more than most Wii U games sold :)

Needing an external memory that was stupidly priced and easy to misplace.

>SD adapter soon
Cant wait

I don't know how true that is, but I doubt the Vita did any better. I bet the average person couldn't name a single Vita game.

>a handheld outsells a console barely
this isnt an acheivement

>:)

>It failed as badly as the Wii U.
>Sold more
>Has more games
>Has more support than both Wii U and 3DS put together
>Sony didn't even try
How does it feel to cope with the fact that Nintendo managed to fail harder than Sony's least successful console despite putting much more effort in saving their shitty deadweight?

lack of games and stubborn memory card policy helped a lot

Just further proof that weebshit doesnt sell.

Hey, this thing has heaps of exclusives! There's Gravity Ru- um, Danganr- oh. Well it had Tearaw- oh, hold on. Senran K- shit, GODEAT- and y'know etc, etc.

I regret buying a Vita so much.

The Wii U may be a joke, but that doesn't mean the Vita isn't. I've never met a single person that owns one, including the sony fanboys and weebs I know. It's just pathetic. Shame too, since it has a few decent games.

Price, dumb name and no marketing. Just like the WiiU. People bitched about Switch peripherals costing $60 but that's an average memory card price for this shit. Without USB loading it's worthless.

Literelly no proper advertisements, excessively expansive proprietary memory cards and no system sellers

I'm not a fanboy first off, so you can fuck right off with that.

You seem to be the one trying to desperately cope with how badly the Vita did. It didn't have games. At least not as much as a console should. I can't name one single Vita game outside Uncharted and I guarantee the average game consumer can't either.

>b-but muh wiiU
that doesn't change the fact vita is a failure

The only reason I would ever buy a Vita would be if there was a new Monster Hunter on it, and I think we all know the chances of that

Sony was retarded and locked memory cards behind exorbitant prices instead of Micro SDs for fear of hacking like the PSP. That led to people not wanting to buy the Vita until a price drop which never came, which lead to Vita not having a strong games lineup past the first two years, which led to everybody abandoning it.

People were retarded because they bought fucking MonHun in droves on the shittiest possible system for it, the 3DS, instead of the Vita, the much more powerful system with two analog sticks that was also portable.

>fail
>still has more games coming than nintendo switch or xbone combined
better question
why did this fail?

thats a funny sales figure, because sony stooped releasing sales figure in 2011
companies only dd this when a product (such as the ps3) is a total flop

Have one, got it for 25 but only persona 4 and DAN, when is this shit getting hacked since I really want to play all my fave PS1 and GBA (and below) favorite games on it.

Been collecting dust for a while, I didn't even finish P4 (did this before on PS2, though).

are they cheap yet
are there places to find their memory for cheap used

>Has more support than both Wii U and 3DS put together
I wouldn't call shovelware support.

last i checked games are still coming out on it

I love my two Vita's

It's been hacked for months, my man.

>90% "only-japan-cares" games
>Expensive memory
>Expensive videogame development
>Has the 3DS as rival
>Almost no support for Sony
>Most of its games can be played on other consoles

I mean, powerful system, great graphics, but just that wasn't enough.

Proprietary cable, proprietary memory card, severe lack of 1st party support. The Vita is pretty much what happens when you let corporate suits make hardware decisions. So much failed potential.

I wish to the high heavens that many 3DS games were available on the Vita, because it is straight up the better handheld.

Last I checked it still wasn't selling.

>Vita comes out
>Nintendo fanboys constantly shittalk it saying console games on portables is retarded.
>Switch comes out
>Nintendo fanboys talk about how console games on portables is the best thing ever

I hate it.

>Has more support than both Wii U and 3DS put together
Ask me how I know you're a Vitafag.

Reminder that both Sonyfags and Nintyfags hate you

neither has wii u

Vita still gets games.
Wii U is basically discontinued after only like 4 years

The memory cards. I would have bought one otherwise.

Not that user, but you're abso-fucking-lutely a fanboy since you apparently find some sort of personal validation in owning or not owning the "correct" consoles

>games for vita come out
>but it doesnt sell
>LEL PII U FAILED!

what made Sonybros develop this massive victim-complex?

One, everyone except neogaf shat on the Vita because it was just plain bad. The games on it ran worse than their console counterparts and it lost first and major third part support very early on.
Not to mention that proprietary memory.
Two, the Switch is a home console first and can actually run said games better than the Wii U.

the op is comparing the vita to the wii u

Probably last gen when Sony made a mockery of themselves with the PS3. When things started to turn up they started picking fights they couldn't win.

This was never about which did better, because they both equally bombed. The question is, how did Vita, which wasn't at all as stupid as Wii U, managed to sell as badly.

>b-but it sold better

Nah, not really. 13 million vs 15 million is virtually the same.

I'm glad I picked up both. Between the flash sales for the Vita getting me to try out all sorts of shit I wouldn't have normally tried, and the handful of games that I got for my dirt cheap Wii U (200 bucks for it plus 2 games, and my Wii-motes and Classic Pros meant I didn't have to sink anything on accessories), I got everything I wanted on it for less than 350 bucks.

The Vita is way better than the Wii U, and between the Wii U, the Vita and the 3DS, I see no reason to ever purchase the Switch so long as they are forcing me to buy the screen. Maybe if they offer a version that only hooks up to the TV, ditching the portability factor and dropping 100 bucks (since it would be cheaper without having to worry about portability), I would be interested. Even then, they would need to drop the price of their Joycons to 50, and their pro controller to 40. Those controller prices aren't negotiable.

>they both equally bombed
>sales dont matter

games are still coming out on the vita

But dude, I owned a Wii U and admitted in the OP that it bombed . I bought one because Zelda was announced. I don't give a fuck about console wars. I just can't figure out why the Vita tanked as badly as Wii U.

>which wasn't at all as stupid as Wii U,
Let's be honest here. The vita was essentially a Wii U gamepad with features that were both just as underutilized and retarded.
Don't forget about the proprietary memory cards, the reduced button and stick size and the general poor ergonomics.

Same problem with the PSP. All it is a portable playstation. People don't want a portable playstation. No what people want is something unique. They want some type of games that you can't play on another console. I think the Vita is an alright machine but you're not paying it for the games. No you're paying for it because you love Sony so much you already bought PS Plus.

One, people actually shat on it just for the concept of portable console games, which is what I was talking about.

Two, a lot of the portable console games it got, most of them, ran well and some of them, like metal gear, ran better than their original versions.

You seem to have taken that post a bit too personally. I wonder why...

Only because it makes sense why the Wii U failed, but Vita failing really defies logic.

>games are still coming out on the vita
And the Wii U eshop still updates with shitty games too.
Doesn't mean that either have anything of worth coming out any more.

>Two, the Switch is a home console first and can actually run said games better than the Wii U.
Sony releases a handheld that is more powerful than last gen hardware in 2011.

This is somehow bad.

Nintendo releases a handheld that is more powerful than a last gen system in 2017.

This is somehow not bad.

Proprietary memory card, stupid anti-piracy measure of controlling whatever you hooked it up to through the Vita. God awful transfer speeds, no real 1st party support. No real advertising.

If they let you transfer files the same way that you did through the PSP, and put in a micro SD card, and bothered to produce and advertise games created for the Vita, it would have done much better. It's clearly the superior piece of hardware when compared to even the N3DS, but there was no push from the people who created it.

When the NGAGE had more ads for it than the Vita did, you KNOW its going to bomb.

Literally no one can tell you what games are coming to the Vita. No one owns a Vita. It was a failure. Forget the Wii U, it has nothing to do with the Vitas failures, it was merely a comparison of equal commercial failure.

Vitas OLED screen was amazing and you cant really insult the sticks when it was the only portable system that had dual sticks at all.

Salt it is.

I perfer the ergonomics of the Vita to my 3DS.

OVERPRICED
PROPIETARY
MEMORY
CARDS

If the Vita is so good why is there no emulator?

>When the NGAGE had more ads for it than the Vita did, you KNOW its going to bomb.
SCEA blatantly did not like the vita and did not want to push it.

It's very evident if you were an e3 attendee the year the vita launched and the year after.

HUGE floor space for the vita, but SCEA would not allow it any time in the big press event. When asked about it, higher ups at SCEA would hand waive it off.

They should have been fired. I feel like the japanese management of sony has a disconnect with their american counterparts that they must be unaware of.

>Sony releases a handheld that is more powerful than last gen hardware in 2011.
They never did that though

Here's a quick question. What was last gen hardware to someone in 2011?

>Sony releases a handheld that is more powerful than last gen hardware in 2011.
Are you retarded?
The Vita was weaker than the PS3, had no internal storage for anything but the OS and updates, charged extortionate prices for proprietary memory cards, ran games worse than advertised and had nothing of worth to play after the initial year.

That is what's bad about it

And the Switch is still a home console.

You're a retard if you think the Vita was more powerful than the PS3

>PS3 was a last gen system in 2011

You are an idiot.

It's pretty fucking great if you are a weeb. So much niche stuff.

>and you cant really insult the sticks
Sure you can especially when very few games needed dual sticks and they were too small for anyone of average size.

In 2011 the ps3 was current gen hardware. The ps2 was previous gen hardware.

For the time, in 2011, sony released a handheld that was, at the time, in 2011, significantly more powerful than the previous generation console they released was.

The Vita is an 8th gen console you turd muncher

What's the point of a handheld with no monhun?

>still no vita ports of ps2 gamestops

FUCK

Not him, but the Vita isn't even as powerful as PS2. Its ports of MGS2 and 3 don't run as well as the originals playing on the MSX Metal Gears on the go are the only valid reason to get the Vita version of the HD Collection.

see
That was blatantly a comparison to home console power, as per the metric set by the person they replied to.

>Vita comes out
>Wow look at all the shitty ports with 20 fps of the games! And limited control scheme too, WOW!
>Oh look, a new game! Too bad if I want to buy it I have to purchase the $100 memory SD! Thanks sony for making me save money!
>Man these hand cramps sure suck! But they're worth it to play my awful ports.

>Switch comes out
>Literally console games with less graphics. On the go.
>Uses regular sd and USB-c to charge
>Can play on tabletop as well with one joycon in each hand or a regular controller

Gee I wonder why

vgchartz.com/platform/43/playstation-vita/
>best selling Vita game
>Minecraft

>Its ports of MGS2 and 3 don't run as well as the originals
The vita ports of mgs 2 and 3 run at a higher resolution, with visual improvements, and a variable framerate that is more stable and typically higher than the ps2 version, especially in 3.

Glorified open-world deathmatch where interesting shit only happens every hour or so with zombies thrown in the mix when the game was sold as a "zombie survival".

Price, vita plus memory card cost more than an xbox 360. People that say vita had no games are retarded. Killzone, unchartered, gravity rush, Soul Sacrifice.

Vita was too expensive and half of it's gimmicks were never used. Sony should have made a handheld without trying to make it a phone.

The Vita was a side project that failed to take off and when the PS4 started gaining momentum, Sony couldn't wait to abandon it.

>In 2011 the ps3 was current gen hardware.
>ps3 was 7th gen
>vita was 8th
Its astounding how dumb you vitards can be. I bet you thing the PSP was 6th gen too huh.
Also is there any reason why you're attempting to compare the switch and Wii u, two home consoles in the same gen to the ps2 and vita, a home console and handheld two gens apart?

Okay, but the Vita is still a flop

there's a crucial difference

Vita's console ports were awful, they ran at like sub20fps settings, and 7th era games already ran like shit at a certain point, so the Vita for console ports was the subpar of the subpar. The Switch has more power than a 7th gen console, even though it's unrealistic to expect PS4-tier hardware prowess on a portable device, but I'd say it can handle PS4 ports better than the Vita handled PS3 ports.

>Saying that when Animal Crossing is the best selling 3DS "game"

The 2ds with a 64 gig sd card cost as much as a vita's 64 gig memory card. Let that sink in.

>The Vita was a side project
You don't put that much into a side project user.

>>Has more support than both Wii U and 3DS put together

The best selling 3DS game is pokemon XY followed by Sun and Moon user.

>People that say vita had no games are retarded
Sure, it had games. But it didn't have any system sellers. youtube.com/watch?v=cvBsPD3KJO4

It's like you are purposely trying to not understand the posts, even when people are holding your hand and walking you through it.

The posts claim was this.

In 2011, sony released a handheld (vita) that was more powerful at the time than the previous generation of home console (ps2) was.

If you still can't understand this, you are hopeless.

Wiiu and 3ds had abysmal support so it's not saying much. Vita has the third largest library of any console.

It's a port machine and a pretty good one at that too.

I don't understand this obsession with sales. If the console is good for your needs, who cares?

There were like 2-3 ports that ran that bad, most of them ran fine, and some of them ran really really well.

It did literally what the switch is doing for seventh gen stuff for sixth gen stuff, which makes sense since it came out six years ago.