The PlayStation Vita
E3 Announcement Fails
Listen, I take no joy in putting the wonderful handheld that is the PlayStation Vita in an article about E3 dumpster fires. Both the Vita and the Dreamcast will go down as two of themost under-appreciated consoles of all time that, unlike the Wii U, didn’t deserve their fate. Still, there’s no denying that the PS Vita announcement, and the choices they made following it, were mistakes that Sony probably wishes they could have back.
Whether it met Sony’s expectations or not, the proof of how little Sony cared about the PS Vita is evident. They barely supported the handheld, well… ever really. By 2014 the console was already a zombie; an unloved zombie just wanted friends completely abandoned by its maker. They had moved onto the much more successful PlayStation 4, and the PS Vita fast forwarded to the end of life PSP stage where Atlus and a few other Japanese companies and indies were the only ones regularly supporting it.
It’s a shame because the hardware is still great and it has so much potential. But nonexistent marketing, seemingly zero interest in getting games made for it, and a terrible choice to not allow for SD storage upgrades doomed the PS Vita early.
