Adventure Gamers - Forums

Oh yeah, the Vita which is doing horribly. The perfect system for adventures were the 3DS and smartphones. Vita was….great, just that it was executed poorly for the fact that people don’t use mobile gaming devices anymore. They rely on Cellphones, which can do everything, but better. People rely on the addiction of the cell phone. Nothing wrong with that because its convenient.

Funny because Sony was going to release an android based cellphone like Vita, but they canned it. Regrets? You bet! Just like my PSP, ex-psp. It is collecting dust because it no longer has a place in the modern lifestyles. 3ds will always find work because its Nintendo. They know how to create games for it that make you keep coming back.

In the end. No, Vita won’t see that chance, nor will it have that long of a lifetime.

It always seemed to me that the PSP (and now also the PSVita) was targetting more or less the same demographic as the PS/PS2/PS3 (mostly males between 12 and 24 years of age).
That’s not the demographic that plays adventure games.

This is also why the DS is a lot more popular, since that’s mainly aimed at children and women of all ages pretty much *everyone else*. That also means that it has a bigger market for adventure games.

The Vita appears to be “too little too late”, so I don’t think the marketshare will increase much, and neither will the target demographic. Hence, adventure games on the Vita are imo a lost cause.

Anyway, I’m probably over-generalizing here, but that’s definitely how it appears in Belgium: plenty of people have a (3)DS, but nearly no-one has a PSP/Vita, and game-availability in stores represents this. You’ll find one shelf with PSP/Vita games for every 6-8 shelves of (3)DS-games.

Here’s the skinny on the Vita:

1) Sales in the beginning were subpar due to high price and no games. That has been corrected by numerous bundles being released that include a system, a game and a memory card for one low price. These bundles sell like crazy.

2) Virtue’s Last Reward - the sequel to “999” will be out on the VITA on the 23rd and the Japanese release on the 3DS got rave reviews.

3) The award winning adventure game “Machinerum” is coming to the VITA in early 2013.

4) The VITA is almost as powerful as a PS3 and most laptop computers - games are simply amazing on it - Uncharted and Gravity Rush have to be seen to be believed.

5) I bought a used PSP-3000 for $59 dollars and the adventure games “Shadow of Destiny” and Silent Hill Shattered Dreams for $15 dollars each and was floored by how well they played.

6) I own a 3DS XL and about a hundred DS/3DS adventure games - so I know that Nintendo will always do well here - the adventure game Prof Layton and the Mask of Miracle was the best selling game when the 3DS system launched. The Classic adventure game Myst is going to be released on the same day as Virtue’s Last Reward and 5 days before Mask of Miracle in NA. That’s 3 adventure games in 5 days for the 3DS!

Kasper F. Nielsen - 11 October 2012 04:23 PM

Wait a moment… I’m 23, so that means I only have a year left of PlayStation-gaming, and I’m not allowed to play Adventure Games?

(Over)generalizing leads to lots of exceptions…

I bought “Zero Effect - Virtue’s Last Reward” and I really like it. Great graphics and story.

Hopefully we’ll see more games like this one released.

Persona 4 is getting released for the Vita next month. This game will feature interesting characters and story.

Sales as usual will dictate how many games get localized here - If Zero Effect and Personna 4 sell well you;ll get more of them.