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Dammit Sony, you just had to improve upon it and then you went and fucked it up with the Vita :/

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They dropped the UMD drive and replaced it with that gimmicky rear touchpad thing is probably the biggest reason.

They dropped something incredibly functional and would have given the Vita access to the entire library of PSP games at a time when it needed that library the most to compete against the smartphone (Vita was released in 2012)

I think the 3DS/DS were able to remain dominant so long even in the face of strong competition from the rise of the smartphone was because of the deep library of older titles to keep it going forward.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it was the memory cards insane price more than UMD support

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They really wanted to recoup the whole of their R&D costs in the first 5 sales with those things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

first 5 sales

And they didn't even sell that much

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Great, thank you! Yeah, dropping the UMD seems asinine when they were struggling to provide a library and demand.