PQube Drops PS Vita Support To Focus On Switch Development

The Vita is long gone, good to move onto the Switch

I wish them luck and hope they continue to give us awsome games like GalGun.

I'm glad they're at least outright willing to say it. It's kind of sad looking at things like the PS Vita subreddit where people will cling on to the few games still slowly trickling out for the thing and claim rumours of the system's death are greatly exaggerated.

Actually if you watched the stream you would clearly see it was all in good context. You know like a joke. As everyone was just messing about having fun on Nippon Marathon.

I believe the new policy of Playstation censorship pushed them a lot.
They are the publisher of Omega Labyrinth Z but failed to finally release the game because of SIE.

@pdapanda That's what i think. As the sequel to Omega Quintet, they saw that people would . Lets just say annoyed. Censorship overload at Sony these days. Ohh except when it comes to guns. Violence good. A bit of flesh being shown bad.

@Moms-Meowth exactly. Rather our kids learn to make love and not war. It’s a joke TBH. Why people are so flesh adverse.

Doesn't surprise me, only the physical games for the Vita stop in the west but devs/publishers know most Vita users barely buy digital games because of the ultra expensive properitary memory cards Sony used (only huge con of the Vita).

32gb is still €70, 64gb which is the biggest is €90/€100 and their quality is meh especially with the 64gb one (like many Vita owners I already wasted 3 64gb cards because of permanent corruption, smaller ones have this issue way lees).

And then the games, there are enough games that are 2gb or more and have a few patches that hover between 100mb to 1gb, sometimes even 3gb and that while the memory is small and memory cards expensive.

This all makes most Vita users buy physical games only, because on a 16gb or 32gb memory card you mostly can fit 10 games roughly, sometimes more, sometimes less if you have few big games with big patches, no to mention some games have separate downloads for voice or high quality audio, because Sony never cared to release anything above 4gb (in essence 3.3) cartridges even while 8gb was possible.

@Kalmaro partly true, some devs are PlayStation only so some games that came to the Vita will sadly never get a Switch release and stay on PS4 then.

Atlus is a great example, they said few time that games like Catherine or main Persona games don't fit on a Nintendo system in their opinion because of it's market, so while Vita got a enchanced Persona port + few spin-offs and Catherine comes on it only in japan, Switch will never see these games.

Luckily atlus is one of the few devs that are that stubborn, Bandai Namco and NISA proved they think more wide (I would never dare to dream about 2 Disgaea games on the Switch)

@Rayquaza2510 It's funny that people keep thinking the Switch is still a kid console, despite things like jrpgs, 80/90s nostalgia remakes, and m-rated games selling just fine. I imagine the Switch audience skews a bit more on the adult side at this point, especially with people who use it as a portable system.

Part of me thinks It's just that some developers are afraid the Switch is just a hype bubble or they are afraid of damaging good relations with Sony. It's hard to tell.

Sony's philosophy on the Vita was bullcrap. They didn't want to put their effort into it until it's sold well, but they didn't realize that people won't want to buy it if they do nothing with it. It was a great handheld that had next to no marketing, hardly any push overseas, and just overall terrible treatment by Sony. They only have themselves to blame for its failure.

Makes sense, even Sony abandoned the Vita. They are ending ps plus releases in March. The releases are slow and very niche. I enjoy both my Vita and PSTV and will keep them around for a while but I do wish there was more support. My PSTV is primarily a PS4 remote play machine to stream my PS4 to my bedroom and Vita keeps some usage when I fly (fairly frequently 3-12 hr flights).

That being said I also have a Switch that goes on those same flights, I might buy a 2nd dock but they are so pricey, maybe black Friday? If Switch got Netflix support that would be a solid push for a second dock since I otherwise only have a PS3 in that room to use Netflix I don't otherwise use.

What took so long?

Vita could have been something special if Sony actually put effort into it. The button/d-pad/analog stick layout is perfect, the screen is beautiful and the battery life is stellar. And even though the memory card was pricey, I never filled up the 16gb one I bought (because I add and remove games on the regular). I still have mine, but aside from some retro PSOne games (playing SotN and FFVII on a handheld is neat) I don't use it for much.

I consider the Switch what the Vita could have been.

Vita is a great system and got a lot of games (almost 1600 native Vita games and a lot of psp, ps1 and mini games on TOP of that). And it’s still getting releases. So more than enough to play (the system is 6 year old).

That said. It’s good to move on to the next system where money can me made.

To be fair, it would be very difficult to shoot a sniper rifle while standing up. The struggling bird might have a little more time.

Soooo....
Can I (or We) have God Eater: Resurrection and God Eater 2: Rage Burst, Toukiden 2, Digimon Cyber Sleuth: Hacker's Memory and some others now for Nitnendo Switch?
......
Please?

I enjoy my Vita. I'll continue to enjoy the games I've already purchased for it. But I'm not surprised companies are moving on to greener pastures.

@SgtQuint
I was just thinking the same thing.

I do love my Vita but agree that Sony dropped the ball with some of the decisions they made. having to use their own memory cards which was stupidly expensive was a bad move as in the end I just stopped buying games as I had no memory left and didn't want to delete anything. I also bought a 64gb card which was about £100 and died after a couple of months. It has some great games on it and the Switch does feel like what the Vita should have become with the right support.

With the Californian PlayStation HQ's new censorship policies, which sees Japanese games being censored in Japan itself, it's no surprise Japanese companies like PQube are jumping ship from PlayStation to PC and Nintendo.

No surprises here. Anyone knowing how sony mistreated the Vita knew what was coming down the pipe. Doesn't matter whether sony announces it or not they own what they did to the Vita no one else did that. They wanted AAA games and PS4 Pro but found that isn't what makes a game.

New hopes for that Labrynth game coming West!!!

The Vita seemed to do just great in Japan, the problem was Sony forgot all about everywhere else. If they had gotten more western developers on board to create games that had mass appeal in the west, the Vita could still be going strong right now.

But nope, no lessons were learnt from the PSP. Still, I do intend to pick one up someday and while the physical games might not be cheap, I still have a backlog of 2+ years of PS+ titles to put on it (What little space you get anyway.).

Least when all online support for the Vita is discontinued, I'm sure it'll be hacked to death.

Still love and use my vita! And will be happy to see games on the switch from them!

Pqube related

Videogamesplus has their pqube black Friday sales on right now.

https://www.videogamesplus.ca/specials.php

They have punchline which just came out and cat quest for switch on sale too

@IceEarthGuard nothing wrong there but IP Memory storage sky rocket prices and lack of support and new hardware tells alot how much lack of support it had to grow.

Not surprising. The Vita is pretty much a bygone console at this point. The way I look at it is almost like the portable equivalent of what happened with the Sega Saturn; it was on life support in Japan for a long time after it pretty much died in the US a few years after it launched. Thing is that is pretty much going away at this point, the supplies from Japan seem to have come to an end.

I actually just got myself a new Japanese Vita imported because it seemed like one of the last good opportunities to do that. I had the launch OLED edition but I felt like getting one of the last models since they changed a lot with that and I always like to have final version of a console new from retail before it bows out if they offer one.

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