In my other post, I reviewed the PSP (PlayStation Portable) which was released in 2005 (2004 in Japan) by Sony. As the successor of the PSP, Sony announced the PS Vita at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) 2011 in California. The PS Vita had dual analog thumb sticks, as well as improved hardware including a higher resolution OLED touch screen, touch pad on the back of the device, gyroscope, more RAM, more powerful GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), and more powerful CPU (Central Processing Unit). The system had added features that the PSP didn’t have such as full PlayStation 4 Remote Play support, more social interaction, faster navigation, and other features that made many gamers hyped for its release. The PS Vita was finally released later that year in December 17, 2011. Sony sold over 300,000 in its first week’s release in Japan and Over a million globally. Games’ graphics on the console were on par with the graphics of games on 7th gen. consoles such as the PS3. Games such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and wipEout 2048 were graphicly impressive to many as well as myself, but were not as impactful as the PSP’s launch titles. As of this day the PS Vita is still an enjoyable on-the-go handheld gaming device in my opinion but popularity and support has declined steeply since its first few weeks of release due to expensive propitiatory memory cards, mobile gaming market shift, issues with PS4 Remote Play, small game library, and other factors. The handheld gaming console has great potential. With what we saw with the PSP and its absolutely huge game library that made it sell so well, the PS Vita could have followed its predecessor’s tracks. At the time of the PSP’s release, playing video and listening to music, and looking at photos-all on one portable device that you could put in your pocket was a revolutionary concept that was put into action with great success, because cell phones like the original iPhone that could do all that wasn’t released until 2007. In 2012, we already had smartphones with gaming, video, web browsing, and everything else, so with the PS Vita just out in market, it failed to compete mainly with other handheld devices. In the wake of all this, hopefully Sony will announce a totally new and competitive portable gaming console that can be a hybrid of a smartphone and a dedicated gaming handheld within the next year or so. Hence their next device has a greater chance at success like the PSP did.
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Sabatino
4/26/2017 07:49:59 am
Both informative and persuasive. Thanks for sharing!
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