PS Vita Messages Wiped and Functionality Disabled

RIP Vita. Taken too soon 😔

This almost sucks more than the store closing. It kills functionality to invite people to play online for games you have already bought. Sad day here.

It’s sad to see this being shut down. You’d think it’d be pretty simple to allow use of messages etc.

It's so sad to see. I still use my Vita daily for breaks at work. 😞 At least the store is still up though as the article said.

Sad but not unexpected. Thanks for the great memories Vita! Still love ya.

Super Stardust Delta, Persona 4 Golden, and that gorgeous OLED screen are, and will always be, my memories of my Vita.

got the vita day one. some good memories, some.

An up-scaling vita emulator on ps4/ps5 would be nice, my whole collection is digital after all. Sort it sony!

#badlink

So it works more like a Switch now. 😁

Nooooooo!!! How am I gonna talk to Grandma now!?

Vita could've been the switch, but Sony has no marketing clues

Oh no! What about all those messages from girls who thought my profile pic was cute and wanted to send me nude pics?

@AFCC I always found that funny - that Nintendo was the one in the end who fulfilled Sony’s promise of ending the “handheld ghetto”.

I actually never used this feature so its not a huge loss to me, but sad for others who did.

My goodness what a console though. I still use it daily and it still beggars belief that it gailed. Sony had EVERYTHING in that little machine. Bluetooth as standard, when modern consoles still dont widely support it (even my PS5 only supports certain headsets). And that OLED screen!

Sony could have had an equivalent to the Switch on their hands if they had just handled this right.

Im proud to say i still play everyday and have (and will continue to) supported the console to the very end.

The PSP store is next right? Was that also closing today?

I love the Vita. Still, you cannot sort the new games via the release date... I mean come on; how hard can it be?

And I’m still loving, playing and preferring the Vita over the Switch even today.

I want psvita pro with updated cpu so it can play newer indie games 😃

@Milt To Sony, Vita means undeath. Wonder if any of the non-money grabbing execs at Sony regret giving up on the little thing so soon?

"although you’ll still be able to access them through a PS5, PS4, or smartphone." - this makes no sense at all.

Tried a 2DS XL but that just felt sub-PSP levels of graphics and gameplay, never mind the Vita.
I might try a Switch Lite at some point but until then the Vita and it's large(ish) memory card and physical games will do nicely. Still got my L2/L3/R2/R3 Hori grip so still good for remote play to the Pro.

@sanderson72 Shuhei Yoshida still does at least!

https://twitter.com/yosp/status/1383218015831937032?s=19

The only way Sony would ever release a handheld is if they can do their version of a switch which doesn’t run with gimped hardware. 2028 PS6witch 🧐🧐🧐

Hey Sony. Why not create a android cellphone for gaming called Sony Vita? Make it shipped from the factory with a built in solution to connect with PlayStation controllers and a easy way to send the video/audio output to TV. I think it is a million dollars idea.

I've always felt sorry for the PS Vita, never ever got the love and push it always deserved.

Sad 😥

@vict0RGM Yes, they had the Xperia Play many years ago that was a sort of PSP emulator with a slide out control panel. A new one would work wonders but Sony seem a bit dim these days.

Wasn't Horizon Chase Turbo coming out for the Vita?

@Amnesiac
Yup pretty much! I still can't believe you can't send friends a message of any sort on Switch. It's actually baffling.

@vict0RGM Just call it a PSP2 and act like the VITA never happend the thing was great but the support was terrible such a pity im sure with a little love and cheaper storage it would have been a hit.

I recently got a Vita. My brother had one and he didn’t play it much so he gave it to me. It’s actually a nice little device. Just never got the support.

Still probably has more features than the switch

Never used this so makes no odds to me.

@mrtennis1990 Sony has copied Ninty so many times; wish they'd do it once more. The switch has been such a success that I kept hoping Sony would release some kind of handheld device, but alas.

Sony murdered the Vita circa 2014. B-tards.

@sanderson72 if u are going to get a switch either wait for the pro to come out or the normal one , i know ppl that have bought the lite and now they wish they had the regular console.

Wish they'd make a new ps portable with 1080p screen (or 4k if possible) and back buttons instead of touch controls.

“It means you can no longer communicate with your friends…”

Oh well.

I pulled out my Vita today purely to check on the battery. The slim version has a lovely svelteness that is rather refreshing after becoming so accustomed to the relative heft of the Switch. If it wasn’t for the proprietary memory and lack of clickable sticks, its lifespan may have been prolonged. No physical L3 and R3 was such a mistake, especially considering the emphasis on Remote Play.

@Mole17
Speaking of taken. I took mine across the Atlantic, all the way to L.A once. I even managed to score a few trophies at an altitude of 11km 😄

@twitchtvpat Will probably wait and see what the Switch 'Pro' looks like.
My son has a normal (neon) Switch and my wife's recently picked up a Lite, neither of which have swayed my to get one. In fact, my son's Switch is usually gathering dust as he's into playing F1 games on the PS3 and PS4 as there are no Switch F1 games. He's even picked up his 2DS XL again as he found an F1 2011 cartridge for cheap!

@Spiders their franchises are always the same on their foundation but they sure bring in millions of users

@AFCC What does that have to do with bloated, padded game design?

@Vacuumator lol yeah like it failed from lack of clickable a/sticks... pffft... it failed bcause it was hyped as a portable ps3 but due to overheating, was downgraded both in performance & chipset which meant by the time of release it was hugely dated... android phones could run more powerful software & showcase better games on a snapdragon processor, which for sony was an immediate embarrassment so they swept the multi million flop under the carpet & gave it scraps of indy gaming...

@DARKSCORPONOXR

The Switch had an outdated processor on release, that seems to be doing okay.

I would also argue that Remote Play was marketed as a major feature (after the aborted effort on PS3). The lack of L3 and R3 meant that actually using this feature was far from ideal for the majority of games. The touchpad/touchscreen alternatives were unintuitive and unresponsive. A few first party games got the implementation right in terms of the touchpad, but generally it was a cumbersome alternative to clickable sticks, which by the time of the Vita’s release, had been a feature of controllers for many years.

It’s not surprising that companies like Hori developed cases that provided some form of solution to the stick problem.

@Spiders what do you mean?

@AFCC I was in two different threads and got confused. My bad!

@Spiders np mate! Happened to me tons of times xD

@Vacuumator the lack of sticks can be compensated to different controls or controls can be watered down to coinside with the lack of buttons... the vita is touch screen back & front... this gave it an array of touch buttons to add in place of a lack of clickable analogue sticks... i agree with you on lack of buttons however, because L2 + R2 could have made it to the psvita but instead sony chose back touch as native L2 + R2... dont get me wrong.. i own a psvita & hundreds of games for it, its my pride & joy... like every other psvita owner i too was gutted at its failure, it wasnt down to lack of buttons though... it was down to lack of support by its creators which like the psp is a very damn shame & unfulfilled piece of genius...