theres great games already on it like uncharted and theres great future games like ratchet and clank , sly 4 about to come out on

Doom article #2358234 on Sony

The Vita will be fine, some people just don't look at history. It takes time for consoles to get a bunch of good games, every console has gone through this.

I do hope the sales of the PSV pickup as im loving mine at the moment. I got NFS which I am really impressed with the Graphics and game play are very impressive and I also have All Stars for it and again this game impresses and having both PS3 and PSV versions I like how they feel the same on both consoles.

I am getting one as a gift for Christmas. My girlfriend is getting one too so she could play with me. We are looking forward to playing some Mortal kombat and LBP together on the hand held.

It will be very hard to care about the countless doom and gloom articles when I am enjoying the most advanced handheld in the world.

You guys are crazy. Since having a vita I actually use it more than my ps3. And, if you guys think the only good game is Uncharted the you are really crazy. It has (arguably) the best Wipeout ever made. It got some good games for its first year. Its the same thing fools said about the PS3 first year out and some of those games turned out to be classics.

2013 looks good to me. So many quality games on all systems.

hoping to sale my vita for 150$ with mortal kombat and 8gb card

Just like Nintendo with 3DS(only its even worse for Vita) People are not spending that kind of money on a hand held. Nintendo had to drop the price almost right after launch. Then they gave the people who had bought the 3DS already a free game. I am not a handheld guy really, BUT I really like the Vita and the 3DS. Handhelds have come along way. If I were to pick up a handheld, I would go with 3DS though. Not because Vita sucks, but there are a vast amount of games for the DS and 3DS.

I have spent 40 hours on my Vita with Persona 4 Golden in the last two weeks. That's more than my console games and I just picked up Borderlands 2 and Halo 4, as well as 8 other games for 360/ps3/wii.

Chalk it up to Atlus being awesome and Personas addictive nature, but all it takes is a few great games and hardware sells just fine. Same reason I haven't purchased a 3DS yet. Nintendo has to give me a few more games worth owning before I consider spending my money on the system.

LBP Vita!

VITA is BEAST - V2.00 is BOMB - best mobile browser (excluding flash support) don't listen to these sheep and buy 1. There are a lot of people who want to see it fail for all the wrong reasons!

The Vita needs Japan. Currently there are more games being made and released on the PSP than on the Vita in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Sony should probably come out and stop supporting the PSP and create some incentives to get 3rd party developers put their games on the Vita.

The price will eventually go down, hopefully they permanently stick a memory card with every Vita but getting the games on the system is the key to its success.

The ball is in Sony's court. The gaming industry is just waiting for them to make the right moves.

well, it's december, so i guess they gotta get in as many doom articles by the end of the year.

can't wait for the "top 10 sony doom articles of 2012" article to pop up here on N4G...

You fools need to stop acting like vita has great games out. I got the shit and regret it..

How the hell can sony have more studios than ms and nin combined yet not produce 1 or 2 must have games for vita.

I wonder if someone can write an article about the Top 20 or Top 10 websites to write the doom article..

yesterday i saw a guy playing a shooting game on his phone..man i really was thinking..the guy has a huge hand and fingers he is almost covering the whole screen..and make me think..oh thank goodness i have a vita..with buttons gaming on the go will be awesome..just saying just saying the truth..

PSVITA needs a Dark/Demon Souls related game by 'FROM SOFTWARE'. IMHO that would be a system seller. I would love farming for souls and titanite shards on my commute home.

This would also increase the sales of wrist attachments for the vita since everyone will want to throw it across the room with the difficult of the Dark/Demon Souls games....

oh how lovely it would be

The Vita has plenty of games, I got 18 vita only games and have only beaten 5. And LBP and Sound Shapes, PSASBR, and many others have an endless replay value for what they provide.

To me its just people making up piss poor excuses of not trying it out nor going out of their comfort zone. Heck, I played the Gravity Rush demo for about an hour before the actual game came out, and felt like it was worth giving a shot. And boy was that a great decision. Including other unmentioned titles as well.

And am I the only person that took, "Dice" statement of bringing the "Frostbite 2.0" engine to mobile devices, code for "Yeah, we're looking to bring the Frostbite experience to the Vita"

I can bet my PS Vita, that there will be some jaw dropping games announced at 2013's E3, GamesCom, Tokyo Game Show, etc. That'll make every non-Vita owner(s) envious of those that do own a Vita...

Shame on people, trying to count Sony egg's before they hatch...

I've had my Vita for a good couple of months and during that time it has been gathering dust. Most of its games are just inferior ports of there PS3 counterparts.

Games like fifa, uncharted, assassins creed, most wanted and so forth are superior on the PS3 and cheaper too. More Unique games are needed.

I remember reading that the 3DS was doomed, now after a price drop, and a Mario game.

The doom articles disappeared...

I'm continually wondering why people are "hoping" for consoles either mainstream or portable to end up with the fate of the Dreamcast[it was too soon :,( ].

it just needs a pricedrop just like 3ds

Foreseen this on my crystal ball back in March. Sold it along with 4 games after I bought it and hardly used it for 3 weeks. I really like it but with Smartphones these days, the VITA needs some games that define the system, and sadly, there are none thus far.

title should be author's last hope of being one

Lots of "barely used" Vita's for sale on Craigslist , just what I noticed

Sony is struggling to attract third-party developers

Its fun to see people, predict the future of Sony and their products. But hey lets use that talent for something more useful, like....

What are the PowerBall or MegaMillions lottery numbers for the next 3 draws, guys?...

He left out games like Time Travellers (the superior version), and Final Fantasy Type-0, which will probably be localized and released on the Vita.

Also the superior version of Virtue's Last Reward which just got released. Everyone should play 999, and everyone should play Virtue's Last Reward.

AC Liberation got really mixed reviews so I'd say it's up to people to try that one themselves.

And I'm sure there'll be some more interesting games released or announced next year.

PS Vita's Last Hope. And the lame titles of these articles just keeps getting better.

That's what the articles were saying after 2 years of the PS3's launch..hahahaha..

Hey Lookie amazing media hub writers!! I think PS3 is the beast all of all the console. No the world knows it.

PS products always have a slow beginning to a "I can't afford to buy all these exclusives cause there are just TOO many to choose from." LOL's.

My only problem with the VITA is the very long load times.. very detrimental to gaming on the go..

Almost demoted to, gaming on the bed only.

A good FPS is needed direly to make use of those dual analogue sticks! I hope Killzone is way better than those paltry FPS offerings served up so far.

PS Vita wish list:

-Gran Turismo, with full 'Premium' car treatment- I would even jump for joy for a straight port of GT5, with of course a few more modification options.

-Grand Theft Auto/Just Cause or a new sandbox IP that's in the same vein of over the top open world.

- A Skyrim/Fallout style RPG- probably too ambitious for a handheld but imagine how good it'd be...

- Dead Space- the claustrophobic action horror seems to suit the Vita perfectly.

That was a good article. But I actually think 2013 will be a good year for both 3DS & Vita.

Removing those silly back tap buttons the Vita would help and I am piss sick of touch screen being the new cool thing.

It would be a real shame if the PS Vita did fail. I love mine, I play it all the time. The game library is very good despite what some fools say.

Here's my favorite PS Vita games along with my scores:

Persona 4 Golden - 10/10
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita - 10/10
Gravity Rush - 9.5/10
Uncharted: Golden Abyss - 9/10
Sound Shapes - 9.5/10
Dokuro - 8/10
Lumines: Electronic Symphony - 9.5/10
WipEout 2048 - 8.5/10
Mortal Kombat - 8.5/10
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack - 10/10
Retro City Rampage - 8.5/10
Super Stardust Delta - 9/10
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation - 8/10

I haven't even started Ragnarok Odyssey yet and there's a lot more PS Vita games I want to buy. So you see, not only does the Vita have games, it has great games and plenty of them. Anyone who says "Vita has no games" doesn't know what they're talking about. If you're honestly not interested in any Vita games, you're not much of a gamer at all. Any gamer who doesn't own a PS Vita is missing out big time.

Nba 2k14 too. Please 2k im begging or Nba live 14. Idc, i just need a NBA game. Or we need a NBA game.

And cut the price of the memory cards. I think they're too overpriced. In reality you need at least $400 to buy PS Vita, decent sized memory card, and games.

I agree with this article. If the vita doesnt step up next year will be its last and thats a shame. However, the list of games that are coming out next year looks good. Now if their respectful companies makes the games they should be fine.

If I were sony, I would bite the bullet and drop the vita to $170. Fire nihilistic as well. I think a price drop will defi ately help, but if they're going to drop the price of the vita they should do it this year. Right now, because next year will be too late.

The vita has lots of potential but it needs that price drop. It also needs its own identity and its own games to attract people, instead of advertising it as a ps3 in your hands. I mean, who really wants a ps3 in your hand when tbe games are half ass anyway and we all have a ps3 in the house that we rather play on the tv with 8 buttons.

Before the vita tanks, id at least lime to see a redesigned, slim and liter vita with an extended battery life. If they can do that with a price drop they will be fine.

As far as cross play with the ps4, I dont see that happening. You cant even cross play with the ps3 unless it is hacked lol

As for the games, im looking forward to kilzone mercenaries, demon souls, and a few others. What ever happened to y's? I got a vita just for that game. Anyway, itll be sad to see the vita die so early (it will definately go down in history as a top tier handheld by a once top tier, and once loved company) I loved the original psp slim. It was one of my favorite system's and it had a lot of great games. Much better games than the vita.

I don't see any proof that the author is in any way qualified to comment on the Vita's market viability in 2013 and beyond?

All I see is a discussion about the games being released next year. That's fine. But to make a judgement about whether the console has a future on the market you would need to be a market analyst.

Nothing about that website convinces me that the author is a market analyst.

Sorry, but Uncharted was a very good game (not as good as the ps3 versions) but still very enjoyable.

Resistance was pretty good also.

I save so much hydro from sitting on my couch playing Vita then having my tv and ps3 running... Ps Vita is oh so glorious :-) haters gonna hate

Soul Sacrifice. 7th of March in Japan.

Streaming PS3 games over 3G... LOL

ok seriously....

The PsVita has been out for how long now?
Even before it was released there was doom article. Just let it go for fuck sake.

There are ALOT of good games coming out in 2013 , they better step their game up and make alot of those for the Vita , imagine playing gta 5 on the vita!!

Vita has many TITLE, do you try it all? some reviewer don't really play, just con-damming the company and DEV TEAM..

PSO2 is obviously gonna come stateside, Atelier Totori will probably be picked up by NISA like usual.

As for Tales of Hearts R, Namco want to bring more tales games to the west and this is Hideo Baba's favorite tales game, so it has more chances to be localized than not being localized.

If I read one more declaration of the death of or a dying platform, I'm gonna blow a gasket.

The Vita is my favorite handheld, and remarkably gets a little more playtime compared to my PS3. I know it's hard not to get pessimistic, but the PS3 only sold 5 million units during its first year on the market. Now it's at 70 million.

Sony just needs to keep advertising and (possibly) bundle Vita with the PS Orbis when it debuts. That way they can compete with Wii U's one exclusive feature, which is using tablet device in conjunction with a console.

My Galaxy Note 2 with SNES and Genesis Emulators blow this thing out of the water.

I haven't even read the article. I'm not sure I need to. Vita is a success for some, but not everyone who has one is fully enjoying it. Though I think there's plenty of blame to go around even with consumers. I have no doubt that Vita will be more successful than it's predecessor, it's a superior machine.

Those who doubt that Sony's handhelds are not here to stay are just kidding themselves, they'll do their best to integrate the Ps4 with it, guaranteed.

No hope without Square Enix!!!!