So, in less than a year, Vita gamers can only either buy digital games or import releases from Asia. In addition to ending the production of physical Vita games in March, Sony will also stop including PS3 and Vita titles to the list of free PlayStation Plus games that month. It's hard to imagine the tech giant changing its mind since then. Sony's handheld also couldn't compete with the 3DS, which enjoyed Nintendo's full support and inherited the DS console's userbase.īack in 2015, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said the company doesn't see a market for a Vita sequel. Other factors that contributed to the Vita's imminent demise include the rise of mobile gaming and the fact that Sony's American and European divisions largely ignored the console's existence shortly after its launch in 2012. Sony will continue selling digital Vita games on the PlayStation Network, but the console's pricey proprietary memory cards - one of the reasons why Vita never became as popular in the West as it is in Japan - could ultimately cause even loyal gamers to drop the system. The vita is still such a great console for emulating just because of its no compromising psp and very little psx emulation if drastic ever made it onto the vita and they were able to improve n64 support to even as good as the retroid pocket 2 it pretty much cover all the systems I like to play on the go. When we initially came to the decision to end purchasing support for PS3 and PS Vita, it was born out of. The company has revealed the news in a letter to developers, asking them to submit their final purchase orders by February 15th, 2019. Report: PS Vita store will remain open but there will be no new games after this summer. According to Kotaku, Sony's American and European divisions are ending the production of physical Vita games by March 31st, 2019, which is the end of fiscal year 2018. The PS Vita might still attract new fans thanks to indie releases and JRPGs like Persona 4 Golden, but they're clearly not enough to prevent its impending death.

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