Opinion: Your PS Vita may be gathering dust, but it’s no console failure

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln

Sony PlayStation Vita

Oh PS Vita, what did you do deserve this? Once a powerful, robust bit of handheld kit, you could have co-ruled the world as a herald and trusty companion to PlayStation 4.

Sony even began marketing it that way in 2014, but it was too little, too late by that stage. And while the PS4 has gone on to achieve incredible sales feats worldwide, the poor Vita stagnates. It seems, for all intents and purposes, that the PS Vita is as good as dead and ready for its dotage in the Kutaragi Home for Retired Consoles.

But is that really the case? Did Sony really invest all that money into a console for nothing?

The answer on both counts is an emphatic no. Much like PSP before it, sales of PS Vita were strong enough to help Sony bridge the gap between the expensive mess that was PS3 and the critical darling the PS4 has become.

The fact those sales didn’t take place in the West almost doesn’t matter, but we’ll get to that later.

Form factors

What breaks the heart the most is the sheer technological miracles Sony pulled off beneath the Vita’s handheld hood. Its ARM CPU and Power …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming