The vita community is dead because people didn't support the vita. Significantly more people bought a used vita than a new one. The trophy data supports this, there are far more PSN accounts with vita trophies than vita hardware sales. As a result of low hardware sales (due to people buying used rather than new), Sony couldn't convince developers to make games for it because of the small install base. As a result of that, there are no games to entice people to buy the vita. It's a cycle. People were also only buying a handful of games on Vita compared to other consoles. Sony makes most of their (Playstation) money through software. Do the math and you will see why they stopped pushing it so hard.
If Sony just gave you all the great AAA games on PS+, you would be much more hesitant to ever buy games, expecting them to eventually be free on ps+. If the AAA games sell well, there's no need to give them away for free. Especially on Vita, where even with price drops on the hardware, console sales didn't increase much. They NEED you to actually pay for those popular vita games as that's the only way they're going to make their money on that platform.
Instead they give you pretty good indie games that you may have not bought otherwise. Gameplay triumphs graphics any day of the week. Dismissing a game based on graphics is foolish and naive. I'm not going to defend PS+ because the game selection could be much better. But here and there you will get a gem, and even if you get 5 gems a year, it equates to what you pay for the subscription.
TL;DR - Sony is a business, not a charity. The average consumer is not supporting them enough (financially) to justify them giving you fantastic games every month. People are generally seeing it from a consumer perspective, not a business perspective. Sony has to benefit too.
Last edited by a moderator:
are you guys bothering to change your region if you aren't trying to take advantage of getting games cheaper or free?