Do it, I was waiting because I wanted to support the vita but with sony closing the store down soon it's the perfect time.Also it's really easy you don't need a pc you can do everything with the device and a phone.I recommend getting a SD2vita it's super cheap and super worth it👍
I'm one of those that thinks the Vita is HIGHLY underrated. And, honestly, I didn't even remotely care about the Vita until a couple years ago. For the longest time, even when it first came out, the marketing sucked SO much that myself, and anyone I talked to about it, just thought the Vita was just...another PSP. Like the PSP Go. A new PSP with a second stick that some games might take advantage of. None of us knew it was it's own entire separate console. If I did, I probably would have bought one to be completely honest. Even now, I still find people that have no idea what the Vita ACTUALLY is. But, then I saw some stuff mentioned about the Vita, and then had the chance to buy one for cheap. Ever since, I've absolutely loved it. Admittedly, part of that is the custom firmware and homebrew stuff. But even without all that, the actual Vita games are really good. There's a lot of quality games on there, along with the officially released PSP/PS1 games on it. But with CFW, I can install ANY PSP/PS1 game I want and they run perfect. Then there's the tons of homebrew apps and plugins that still regularly get updates, and homebrew games and game ports, that also still get made and updated late into 2023. Custom frontend apps like Retroflow, custom themes, overclocking, control remapping, external controllers, and so many other things. It's an actual legit shame that Sony kind of shot themselves in the foot by horribly marketing it, and making the crappy proprietary memory cards expensive as hell. Especially when the Vita-1000 NEEDED a memory card due to having no internal storage. I would love to see an alternate universe where the Vita was just as popular, if not more, than the PSP. I would love to see what at least a few more years of proper official support would have gotten. The games we could have gotten on the Vita. Also, a SMALL change would have made a huge difference in how well it sold. The name. Personally, I do like the name PS Vita. But, when people were going from PS1 to PS2, PS2 to PS3....having a second handheld come out after the PSP, and NOT just calling it the PSP2, was a huge mistake. ESPECIALLY after we had the "PSP Go" which was just a spinoff of the PSP, making it seem like that's all the Vita was. Calling it PSP2, while boring, would have cleared up a LOT of confusion.
Marketing wouldn’t have saved it. It was doomed from the start just because sony was the one manning the ship, and sony doesn't understand portable gaming like nintendo does. Nintendo has always invested heavily into its portable titles and always gave them just as much worth as their home consoles. Take the metroid and zelda games on gameboy for example. You had 3d games like ocarina of time and metroid prime coming out with the older 2d style of games kept alive on portables - titles like links awakening and metroid fusion are still played today because they're unique experiences that stand toe to toe with the bigger budget games on consoles. Sony, on the other hand, always pushed for graphics more than the gameplay experience - the best selling game on psp was a gta game, and that's cool to get gta on the go, but it was still just the same gta like on ps2, just kind of worse. The psp still sold well because it had legitimate perks over the ds, like multimedia features and the ability to run 3d games, but the attachment wasn't there like with nintendo. Flash forward to the vita - it launched with uncharted, which was probably mind blowing at the time, but once the hype wears off, you realize it's just a worse uncharted game - for the price the vita and its memory cards launched at, you could just buy a ps3 and cheap used copies of the mainline uncharted games. Nintendo instead focused on putting their biggest franchises exclusively on the 3ds - super mario 3d land was their next big mario game and mario kart 7 was their next big mario kart game, and they were exclusive to the handheld. Add to that stuff like mainline pokemon and fire emblem that stayed on 3ds and never went to wii u - there was way more you would miss out on without 3ds than without the vita. Add to that the price - the vita was 250 dollars at launch when the 3ds launched at that price a YEAR prior and barely anyone bought it. Customers already showed they weren't going to pay that much for a handheld at the time (they would later pay more for the switch, but that system doubles as a home console). And clearly the loss on the vita at that price was still huge, as recouping manufacturing losses is the only reason that sony would create an overly marked up proprietary memory card instead of just use sd cards like the dsi and 3ds were already doing. Doing r and d for useless junk like a back touchpad shows that the product was probably not carefully designed. I love my vita to bits but i don't think i would have loved it if i had one back in the day when custom firmware didn't exist. There are a lot of reasons to be a fan of it, but there are also a lot of very valid reasons to skip it. It's very niche, and the majority of gamers would be better off with a 3ds or switch.
I generally agree with a lot. I remember the PS3, 360, even PS2 and PSP launches. They were huge. TV adverts, E3, the marketing was amazing. I dont even remember the Vita launch, or any marketing whatsoever. Sony made a lot of really neat tech, but said really neat tech made it a nightmare for devs. It turned into a snowball. Devs risk making game using all the tech, game flops because Vita isn't selling well, less devs make games, people have less reason to buy one. They really needed a Vita exclusive series to push units, but that was a weird time for Sony. Agree the name is awful. Ultimately it's sad it failed the way it did, because the way the market is now, we'll never see another PSP. And I have so much nostalgia for them, it makes me sad.
@@TXFDAfinally i read it , i'm 100% agree , it is a shame , i had a similar experience about knowing late about psp Vita , the difference its i saw the psp Vita on 2012 on a store , but it was so expensive to me , almost the price of ps4 , and i lost interest, in My country it's too much money for a hand held console, and thanks to the dollar fall because the recession on 2008 the prices rose even more . just about 2021 thanks to TH-cam hackers channel i realize the benefits of the ps Vita and the advantage to get one second hand via internet with a reasonable price thanks to the low interest on the Vita , i'm so happy to have one
Thank you so much for the video and your time, I have recently moded my vita and still haven't made it through the catalog. There are some gems in this video so I appreciate it a lot. Thanks
Well shit dude, you put serious effort into this relatively unimportant subject which is pretty damn impressive. Where most channels would give a half-hearted mini description of each game at most. You went out and listed things that make the game different on Vita, why it's good and worth your time, etc... Makes it feel like you're going above and beyond the normal things channels tend to do for these types of vids.
What an amazing video and the fact you've made it 46 minutes long. That's kinda crazy and I'm like: why? I'm watching the video for days now (every time I'm on the loo) and I'm still not done. I wish you would have split it into parts BUT that way this is the best video about vita games on TH-cam. Super well done. You know what you are talking about and the vita will always make me sad. I'll forever wonder: what could have been? I also don't really know how powerful the vita is. People tell me as powerful as a ps2 but I always felt like the psp was already a portable ps2.
"There aren't enough Monster Hunter titles on the Vita..." Well, there's the PSP Monster Hunter, and the Japan-only Monster Hunter MMO, but there's also Soul Sacrifice (and Soul Sacrifice Delta), Freedom Wars, God Eater 1 & 2, Toukiden 1 & 2, and Phantasy Star Nova (and arguably Phantasy Star Online 2).
The ones that runs a little bad or that get slowdowns in certain actions benefits from overclocking the device, which is another reason to homebrew the vita!
I bought gundam breaker 2 on ps vita and it was hard to play at first because I had to do a lot of experimenting do to the language was not English but I figured it out and it is fun
you forgot IA/VT colourful - the best rhythm game on VITA that is region locked for JPN. And there is also Catherine Full Body that is region locked as well
So, just jrpg, fighting and platform games... I do like platform and fighting but i rather have a proper third view rpg adventure or shooting games. But racing is my thing and theres bone in your video. You and i have very different taste
@@marvelousgamers6679 , Hi Richard please let me know what's dat game at the start of the video, Looks like right up my alley. It was the game from top down perspective a survival horror.
I want to mod my Vita so that I can store more games and play titles that I can't physically afford to buy
It's extremely easy to do and you must do it a long time ago
You motives are nobles and I approve
@@cabdragon333 I aprove your approval with manly nerd tears
1tb vita user here, just do it yolo
Do it, I was waiting because I wanted to support the vita but with sony closing the store down soon it's the perfect time.Also it's really easy you don't need a pc you can do everything with the device and a phone.I recommend getting a SD2vita it's super cheap and super worth it👍
Man, this is a real usefull video. I was looking something to play. Thank you very much
I'm one of those that thinks the Vita is HIGHLY underrated. And, honestly, I didn't even remotely care about the Vita until a couple years ago. For the longest time, even when it first came out, the marketing sucked SO much that myself, and anyone I talked to about it, just thought the Vita was just...another PSP. Like the PSP Go. A new PSP with a second stick that some games might take advantage of. None of us knew it was it's own entire separate console. If I did, I probably would have bought one to be completely honest. Even now, I still find people that have no idea what the Vita ACTUALLY is.
But, then I saw some stuff mentioned about the Vita, and then had the chance to buy one for cheap. Ever since, I've absolutely loved it. Admittedly, part of that is the custom firmware and homebrew stuff. But even without all that, the actual Vita games are really good. There's a lot of quality games on there, along with the officially released PSP/PS1 games on it. But with CFW, I can install ANY PSP/PS1 game I want and they run perfect. Then there's the tons of homebrew apps and plugins that still regularly get updates, and homebrew games and game ports, that also still get made and updated late into 2023. Custom frontend apps like Retroflow, custom themes, overclocking, control remapping, external controllers, and so many other things.
It's an actual legit shame that Sony kind of shot themselves in the foot by horribly marketing it, and making the crappy proprietary memory cards expensive as hell. Especially when the Vita-1000 NEEDED a memory card due to having no internal storage. I would love to see an alternate universe where the Vita was just as popular, if not more, than the PSP. I would love to see what at least a few more years of proper official support would have gotten. The games we could have gotten on the Vita.
Also, a SMALL change would have made a huge difference in how well it sold. The name. Personally, I do like the name PS Vita. But, when people were going from PS1 to PS2, PS2 to PS3....having a second handheld come out after the PSP, and NOT just calling it the PSP2, was a huge mistake. ESPECIALLY after we had the "PSP Go" which was just a spinoff of the PSP, making it seem like that's all the Vita was. Calling it PSP2, while boring, would have cleared up a LOT of confusion.
Marketing wouldn’t have saved it. It was doomed from the start just because sony was the one manning the ship, and sony doesn't understand portable gaming like nintendo does. Nintendo has always invested heavily into its portable titles and always gave them just as much worth as their home consoles. Take the metroid and zelda games on gameboy for example. You had 3d games like ocarina of time and metroid prime coming out with the older 2d style of games kept alive on portables - titles like links awakening and metroid fusion are still played today because they're unique experiences that stand toe to toe with the bigger budget games on consoles. Sony, on the other hand, always pushed for graphics more than the gameplay experience - the best selling game on psp was a gta game, and that's cool to get gta on the go, but it was still just the same gta like on ps2, just kind of worse. The psp still sold well because it had legitimate perks over the ds, like multimedia features and the ability to run 3d games, but the attachment wasn't there like with nintendo.
Flash forward to the vita - it launched with uncharted, which was probably mind blowing at the time, but once the hype wears off, you realize it's just a worse uncharted game - for the price the vita and its memory cards launched at, you could just buy a ps3 and cheap used copies of the mainline uncharted games. Nintendo instead focused on putting their biggest franchises exclusively on the 3ds - super mario 3d land was their next big mario game and mario kart 7 was their next big mario kart game, and they were exclusive to the handheld. Add to that stuff like mainline pokemon and fire emblem that stayed on 3ds and never went to wii u - there was way more you would miss out on without 3ds than without the vita.
Add to that the price - the vita was 250 dollars at launch when the 3ds launched at that price a YEAR prior and barely anyone bought it. Customers already showed they weren't going to pay that much for a handheld at the time (they would later pay more for the switch, but that system doubles as a home console). And clearly the loss on the vita at that price was still huge, as recouping manufacturing losses is the only reason that sony would create an overly marked up proprietary memory card instead of just use sd cards like the dsi and 3ds were already doing. Doing r and d for useless junk like a back touchpad shows that the product was probably not carefully designed.
I love my vita to bits but i don't think i would have loved it if i had one back in the day when custom firmware didn't exist. There are a lot of reasons to be a fan of it, but there are also a lot of very valid reasons to skip it. It's very niche, and the majority of gamers would be better off with a 3ds or switch.
I generally agree with a lot.
I remember the PS3, 360, even PS2 and PSP launches. They were huge. TV adverts, E3, the marketing was amazing. I dont even remember the Vita launch, or any marketing whatsoever.
Sony made a lot of really neat tech, but said really neat tech made it a nightmare for devs. It turned into a snowball. Devs risk making game using all the tech, game flops because Vita isn't selling well, less devs make games, people have less reason to buy one. They really needed a Vita exclusive series to push units, but that was a weird time for Sony. Agree the name is awful.
Ultimately it's sad it failed the way it did, because the way the market is now, we'll never see another PSP. And I have so much nostalgia for them, it makes me sad.
"none of knew it was a separate console" bruh then you and your friends were dumb AF I'm sorry
Man I want to read it all, but i can't , at least tried , but i take the positove emotion and the intention for the Vita
@@TXFDAfinally i read it , i'm 100% agree , it is a shame , i had a similar experience about knowing late about psp Vita , the difference its i saw the psp Vita on 2012 on a store , but it was so expensive to me , almost the price of ps4 , and i lost interest, in My country it's too much money for a hand held console, and thanks to the dollar fall because the recession on 2008 the prices rose even more . just about 2021 thanks to TH-cam hackers channel i realize the benefits of the ps Vita and the advantage to get one second hand via internet with a reasonable price thanks to the low interest on the Vita , i'm so happy to have one
Thank you so much for the video and your time, I have recently moded my vita and still haven't made it through the catalog. There are some gems in this video so I appreciate it a lot. Thanks
I got some heat as well 🔥
Well shit dude, you put serious effort into this relatively unimportant subject which is pretty damn impressive.
Where most channels would give a half-hearted mini description of each game at most. You went out and listed things that make the game different on Vita, why it's good and worth your time, etc... Makes it feel like you're going above and beyond the normal things channels tend to do for these types of vids.
Muramasa Rebirth is a 20 out of 10 game, you NEED to try it
Wow!! so many hidden gems I have not seen in ANY other list! you sir are a legend, I'm subbed now :>
What an amazing video and the fact you've made it 46 minutes long. That's kinda crazy and I'm like: why? I'm watching the video for days now (every time I'm on the loo) and I'm still not done. I wish you would have split it into parts BUT that way this is the best video about vita games on TH-cam. Super well done. You know what you are talking about and the vita will always make me sad. I'll forever wonder: what could have been? I also don't really know how powerful the vita is. People tell me as powerful as a ps2 but I always felt like the psp was already a portable ps2.
he's an ai
Guys you can play monster hunter Frontier Z on psvita that game is awesome
A great underrated game.
Kick & Finnick
God skullgirls is great. Such a good fighting game. Just wish online wasnt filled with so many sweats but thats fighting games for ya
"There aren't enough Monster Hunter titles on the Vita..."
Well, there's the PSP Monster Hunter, and the Japan-only Monster Hunter MMO, but there's also Soul Sacrifice (and Soul Sacrifice Delta), Freedom Wars, God Eater 1 & 2, Toukiden 1 & 2, and Phantasy Star Nova (and arguably Phantasy Star Online 2).
The ones that runs a little bad or that get slowdowns in certain actions benefits from overclocking the device, which is another reason to homebrew the vita!
Nice vid 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great vid!
I bought gundam breaker 2 on ps vita and it was hard to play at first because I had to do a lot of experimenting do to the language was not English but I figured it out and it is fun
a bit dissapointed with silent hill vita..thought it will be 3D like previous SH games on PSP
Amazing video
Nice Playlist
I'm glad you like it
you forgot IA/VT colourful - the best rhythm game on VITA that is region locked for JPN. And there is also Catherine Full Body that is region locked as well
Thank you for the video! Where did you get english version of Macross Delta Scrumble??
I suppose is the Asian version
What was the game at the very beginning
Silent hill Book of memories, shown 19:42
rogue legacy is AWESOME
playing this on my Steamdeck😎
Thank you
Almost every list misses Under night in birth and Shovel knight ☺️
Impressive.
Muramasa might be the best game I've ever played and I never finished it 😂
what’s the fighting game in the begging
So, just jrpg, fighting and platform games... I do like platform and fighting but i rather have a proper third view rpg adventure or shooting games. But racing is my thing and theres bone in your video.
You and i have very different taste
hey i need help i want to buy a PS Vita Limited edition I'm between two options. Persona 4 Dancing or Dragon Quest Builds. Can you help me to decide?
DQB of course
I can’t find numeral on vita.
Did they fix exist archive on ps vita? I loved this game, but always crashing
I’ve been playing it on the vita and it hasn’t been crashing on me
Now we talking.
ohhh yeahhh
GG guys 👍 GG
AI narration is definitely getting better/tolerable
I LOVE THE PS VITA my new video is of new vita games adding to my collection. 😊
0:00 what is this game name ?
Silent Hill Book of memories
Games in thumb?
Skullgirls and that’s just gundam
Does all this games mentioned have trophies?
yes
Good Games!!! 🎉🎉
Glad you like them!
@@marvelousgamers6679 , Hi Richard please let me know what's dat game at the start of the video, Looks like right up my alley. It was the game from top down perspective a survival horror.
Jesus, so many anime games.
*_50?!_* It actually had *that many?*
crap games