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

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
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    23 days ago

    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.

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      22 days ago

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