Is Sony done with Video Games?

[J Tyran]

Personally, I love the Vita. It's the best console I've owned since the Dreamcast. That being said, if I were in charge of Sony, I wouldn't have invested in making the Vita. It's far too costly for both the consumer and Sony themselves to make, and they're not investing enough marketing in it.

Problem is, if they were to just suddenly drop the Vita now, consumer faith in Sony would drop lower than ever. And not just consumers, but developers also. With the Saturn/ Dreamcast fiasco, Sega lost support from companies such as EA and, to a lesser extent, companies like Konami. Sony couldn't afford to make that risk. so they're in a very sticky situation with the Vita.

Regarding the PSP however, I'm not sure it's so easy to wave that console off as a failure. It's STILL selling very well in Japan, and I'm not sure if it's ever been either a financial failure or success in the west. Sure, it's not sold anywhere near as much as the DS, but that's not to say it hasn't made a profit.

I never meant that they should drop out of the handheld market right now, i mean, let the vita run its course (seeing as it's already out), but make no more new ones in the next generation. Regarding the PSP, compared to the DS, the PSP has not sold all that well, because Nintendo have supported their handheld market really well, whereas Sony has pushed the PS3 more. The vita and the PSP both had poor launch titles and were/are relying on future promise, i think that both the PSP and the vita could have sold better if they had a better launch line up, the vitas sales may yet pick up though.

The Vita needs games, it also needs a price revision on the memory cards. There are only 5 or so games you would really want for it, depending on what type of games you like. The exorbitant price of the memory cards kill the other Vita function and prevent it from becoming a viable media player, storage simply costs to much per GB to fill it up with videos. Some people complain about the price of the Vita itself, personally I do not. £200 is a large amount of money but what you actually get for that is fairly good value. Look at the type of smartphone or tablet you would get for that much, nothing really comes close. Some things are cheaper sure but nothing else really comes with a pair of quad core processors and a 5 inch high res OLED screen with a fairly decent pixel density. The thing is though even cheap tablets like the Nexus 7 have at least 16GB of internal storage, leaving that out was a terrible mistake.

The main problems are it being proprietarytastic, not enough games and overpriced storage.