heh, how shitty is the vita that it's losing to *this* bullshit
- too expensive
- required bullshit proprietary memory
- games too expensive* and they never really got their DDL shit together
- sony is a bunch of idiots who had and continue to have no idea what to do with it
Any number of reasons, really. The biggest reason, and one which Nintendo is also facing (but at least has a fallback with their stock of beloved franchises), is that dedicated handhelds are dying, at least for the adult market. The faster prices of tablets and smaller form factor tablet-style electronics fall, the faster dedicated handhelds will die off. *I spent $10 over the past week or so on iOS games, and got a handful for that money, a few of which are quality efforts. On Vita or Nintendo that same $10 will get me one (two, at most) DDL games, or zero retail releases. Yes, controls, etc. I agree. But Infinity Blade was $1 yesterday. On PSN it would have been $10. Call of Cthulhu : The Wasted Land was $4.99. Admittedly, the controls and UI kind of suck, but on PSN or the eShop that game would be $10-15. That, and the fact that you can do many other things besides play games on these devices, is what's causing most people to ask themselves why they would want to buy an additional piece of hardware that takes up precious pocket/bag space and "only plays games." Meanwhile, there's a post on the PSN Blog celebrating the fact that the Vita just *now* got a fucking Youtube app.
It's gonna dry up fast for dedicated handheld gamers. As I said elsewhere on this board, you can pretty much kiss it goodbye by the end of next year. Nintendo will have their franchises to weather this last gen of handhelds. Sony will have...well, Sony will make a beaming post about adding a Hulu app, or something.