Sterling: PS1 fix shows how little the Vita means to sony.

The gist for those who can't be bothered to watch his significantly more eloquently worded video:

Sony is sitting on a mountain of content in the back catalog, PS1 and PSP games that many of us flocked to download during that brief glitch that made them available. The choice to fix it highlights that they can't be assed to even make this content available, and thus the system more appealing.

Despite knowing people want these games, that they would only be slight porting work and potential licensing fee away from being made available to every Vita, and that many like the Crash and Spyro games are in fact available in some regions and working on the system, just not in others. they have all this potential content sitting there, they just can't be assed to make it available and thus, there is less value for potential customers to in turn be assed to buy it.

Also some footnotes about the ridiculously expensive memory cards, that more could be done to court indy devs and how goddamn shameful it is that they are now tethering it to the PS4 in a desperate search for a selling point.

Well, thoughts? Obviously the Vita could use content beyond a back catalog, but it sure as hell couldn't hurt to make all this stuff available to play. I myself was over the moon when I could finally play CTR on my Vita, and raged when I found it was a mistake. thankfully I downloaded when I did.

lolVita

So if the content works, it seems kind of dumb to prevent it on Vita

Yes this shows how little Sony cares

Viva la Vita

It's part of their plan to leave nintendo win the handheld wars.

Didn't they have to prevent it because licensing or something?

"would only be slight porting work and potential licensing fee away from being made available to every Vita,"

Wow he make sound so simple. If he study to be lawyer or programmer he could already solve these problem himself.

The point is that two years into the life of the thing, it's not an excuse. it's a lack of wanting.

See above

Oh, also the fact that many of the most requested ones are already working in other regions.

While this is a Sony problem, it's just as bad, if not worse, on Nintendo's end. Both companies have mountains of licenses that they control which they can release on their digital stores.

Some part of me wonder's though if the reason for some of the delays comes largely from contracts with old studios, royalty contracts or significant shares or rights being owned by defunct studios/publishers.

One thing I hope Sony fixes is their rights system, it started on a 5 system limit on PS3 then got knocked down to a 2 system share due to people sharing too much. I much prefer a rights system like MS has. Hell even Nintendo is slowly working their way there, though it's still a problem how they do rights transfers. This would make digital downloads more appealing if one didn't have to worry about the limitations of the systems, say ones PS4 dies or their VITA gets stolen, that they can recover their digital rights later on and not have to worry about download limits. Plus it would be nice to share content on both PS consoles and handhelds. That's another thing that bugs me about Nintendo, they don't share rights. If I bought Wii VC titles on my Wii I should be able to redownload them on the Wii U or 2D/3DS; it won't allow that. Say I bought Metroid on Wii VC, to access it after the convoluted rights transfer I'd need to play it on the WIi U's Wii emulator thingy, and I'm not allowed function of playing it with the tablet controller and screen. For that ability, I'd need to buy the entire thing over again. Bullshit.

Nintendo is another conversation completely. it's completely a porting thing with many of their games, since they flat out own most of the big titles people would want to see.

Whatever the reason, we end up with the short end of the stick.

At least it isn't the 3DS. I can't even remember the last time I played a 3DS game. :P

You were playing Mario Kart an hour ago, ninny

I was making an inside joke with DSS. Now shoo!

It's their plan to take all the games away so we are forced to use the more profitable ps now. This way we will never own the game, and will have to pay Sony every time we want to rent it.

$$$.

they could take exclusives for Vita. Localizing games like Super Robot series. That would be an awesome step.

Yep, Sony hates the Vita.

I wonder who cares less about the Vita, me or Sony? That is a damn good question.

I'd guess Sony.

You at least cared enough to open up this thread and reply.

@lamprey263: you can deactivate lost, stolen or broken ps3s so you can activate new ones through sonys website ive done it before.

the contrast is quite striking where sony's being so aggressive with the ps4 while not giving a single **** about the vita. No wonder nobody buys that shit.

lel

I have a Vita, and it's obvious that Sony doesn't really care about it, nor do they bother listening.