Once I beat the main story/see the credits roll, I consider the game beaten or at least no longer in the backlog. For some games, I'll go out my way to earn the platinum or I'll do as much as I can before moving on. As for the # of games beaten.... I'm participating in a 52 game, 1 year challenge. If it weren't for that, that "12" would be more like a 3 or 4 heh. Its mostly for motivation to go through my backlog and play my games in general. I'm focusing on one game at a time. And avoiding RPG's helps too. Hyperdimension Rebirth1 was a fun RPG though. I'll try to fit the other Neptunia games in during the challenge too. @ MacEleven Yes it's worth getting. Vita means life. Seriously though, I think the Vita has a great variety of games. And there are still upcoming titles for the Vita. I am happy with mine.
They've said no, but maybe they'll do something similar to what Nintendo is meant to be doing - really good strategy to ensure support and up the handhelds position in the mobile space.
Even if the Vita was end-of-lifed tomorrow, there's a lot of good games available for it now so it'd still be a good buy.
which is a shame because i think a sony handheld with the ps4's design language and hardware architecture would do fantastic. the vita as is now was designed with a odd variation of both from the ps3's perspective and that has always highly annoyed developers. a vita with the ps4's designs would be that much easier for developers to cross platform for. -shrugs-
This what I believe Nintendo are meant to be doing with their next console if the rumours are anything to go by, rather than cross and remote play you have a universal build that will swap to the handhelds specific version once you're out of wifi range, play it on the train from where you left off without synching or downloading a cross save. Sounds a bit too good to be true, but cross development is meant to be pretty much automatic at build time. We shall see I guess, maybe the PS5 will have its own companion handheld, solves the whole not spending development dollars on a handheld version.
I think Sony have already confirmed they are not interested in the handheld market again. It's a shame as there is so much potential but with iOS domination, I don't think others will be brave enough again - not yet anyway. If a handheld was ps4 or Xbox one quality rather than reduced gameplay then it would sell more I think but imagine the cost of the handheld console if that were the case? I think, for now, we won't see anymore handheld devices on the market. Japan is a different story though, with vita selling massively over there.
Not even close to massively, unless there's a major release it's trounced by the 3DS pretty much every week.
I know the 3ds does well in Japan but the vita tends to beat the big consoles. Microsoft does awful over there. Below are the weekly software sales up to 27th Feb this year in Japan. Japan Software by Platform Platform Weekly PSV 163,515 3DS 143,189 PS4 140,320 PS3 71,813 WiiU 38,584 XOne 2,176 Wii 1,635 PSP 634 DS 235 X360 71
Consoles are all but dead in Japan so the Vita beating the consoles(sometimes) doesn't mean anything and those sales you posted are not correct, not sure where you got them from, but the Vita does not sell that much weekly. Edit: You mean YTD, not weekly? Even then it's wrong. PS4 and 3DS have more sold this year than the Vita.
That wasn't console sales, more software sales per console. I got them from http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/42428/Japan/ There are also weekly hardware figures, showing: PS4 26,405 3DS 23,076 PSV 17,948 WiiU PS3 1,336 XOne 66 X360 2 Even though PSV is 3rd, these numbers far outweigh the western sales.
It is, you are right but they are keeping it alive for the people like us who are enjoying it. Without the Japan sales the Vita would probably suffer a much shorter life span.
There's a Brazilian site that frequently lists Japanese hardware sales, not 100% sure but I think they get the numbers from that Famitsu magazine. 3DS the vast majority of the time outsells Vita 2-3:1 or even more, only exceptions being when there's a major Vita Japanese game release.
This is a good resource for checking on JP sales, it goes back all the way from 2004 to now: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24968644
