Fri, Mar 22, 2013 | 16:59 GMT

Vita has over 100 titles coming in 2013

Over 100 titles will be released on Vita in 2013, Sony’s Don Mesa has said.

Speaking with IGN, PlayStation’s director of product panning and platform software innovation also revealed that one third of Vita titles sold were through PSN.

“I know there’s been a lot of noise about Vita recently,” Mesa said. “There were some negative impressions and so forth. One thing we haven’t had the opportunity to do is talk about how our Vita owners are feeling about the platform. It’s a good gut check for all of us, to know what’s happening now.”

According to Mesa, a survey conducted with Vita users found that 86% were satisfied with the handheld, and 90% use the system “on a regular basis” once a week or more.

Vita owner were also found to spend 18.7 hours a week on it.

While already announced titles for Vita such as Hotline Miami, Thomas Was Alone, Lone Survivor, and Frozen Synapse were name dropped by Mesa in the interview, “bigger” titles are also on the docket – including The Walking Dead.

Sony Worldwide Studios are also working on titles for the handheld which are “interesting and innovative,” and can’t be discusses at present.

83 comments

#51

polygem
23/03/13, 9:14 am

its important had to say that twice.

#52

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 9:26 am

@47

Provides links and facts?! Yeah, sure he does, but only from a pro Sony position.

Just check the news forum, he’s like a one man Cheer leading squad.

Sony, Sony, Sony… Like a broken record.

Funny how he ommits Sony news that has a negative spin though.

I didn’t call him out on ‘nonsense’… I said he had weird boner for Sony. If I was posting constant streams of news about one company in the forum, I would expect people to say the same thing to me…

Im mainly called him on the fact he attacked WOE the other day, when he’s doing exactly the same thing.

@Dragon

You keep going back to that post I made.

The one about people being so loyal to one company they miss loads of great games? Yeah, I stand by that, and you’re a perfect example of that.

A huge JRPG fan who won’t by a 3DS because of brand loyalty…

Keep it up dude…

#53

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 9:29 am

Also,as I’ve kept saying:

THE ARTICLE DOESN’T GIVE ANY INFORMATION!!!

As a Vita owner, I can gather nothing from it… Are these download games, have previously announced games part of this mystic 100?

etc… etc…

It needs a lot more info.

#54

Djoenz
23/03/13, 9:34 am

Posting constant streams of news about one company in the appropriate articles/threads is actually a good thing. :)

#55

Lengendaryboss
23/03/13, 9:39 am

@54 Yes it is, but if what other people are saying is true the person is only doing it because of brand loyalty. Nothing wrong with that although i can see why they think like that.

#56

Dragon246
23/03/13, 9:44 am

@54,55
I like PlayStation and Sony and post related news in Sony threads (and sometimes for MS too, their profits really are something). I wonder whats wrong with that?
I see a specific bunch of people having problem with that, always. Same people, again and again. So I ignore them now.

And I trust the editors at VG247 to see what is news worthy. After all they run the site, not us.

Sad to see this article about Vita having great number of games lined up getting turned into a slug-fest.

Btw, the company I like the most has to be Google. It has been involved is so few litigations despite being such a big company.
Google software+Sony hardware= Success!
Like Pachter said, if you have a problem with this, deal with it.

#57

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 9:50 am

@56

You like Sony & PS, I like games.

#58

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 9:55 am

I can’t see how pointing out the article has absolutly zero information in it is in any way turning things into a ‘slug fest’…

Even as a Sony / PS fan, what are you acyually gathering from this that is making you so happy. A survey of PS Vita owners?! I know you love jumping on every positve Sony crumb you can, but this is hard to get excited about surely?

100 games are great, but with no time frame or details, it’s just nothing…?!

#59

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 9:58 am

There’s 9 months left of the 2013, if these targets are to be achieved then roughly 10 games need to come out every month.

#60

Djoenz
23/03/13, 10:00 am

I like consoles over pc. Im too poor to buy a big ass pc rig.
I like games especially the exclusives that happens to be on Sony Playstation.
I liked Sony products till LG started to release great affordable TV’s.

I dont like monthly subscriptions for online play. (I already pay my internet provider).
I do like Gears Of War.

I dont like handhelds.
I dont like casual games besides on my Mobile phone. (free only while a lot of them are micotransaction based)

I dont like motion controlled games.

So I guess that makes me a Sony fanboy too even though I think Sony Bravia TV’s are shit. :P

#61

zinc
23/03/13, 10:02 am

^ I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung
Wanna pull up tough Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she’s wearing I’m hooked and I can’t stop staring
Oh, baby I wanna get with ya And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me But that butt you got Make Me so horney
Ooh, rump of smooth skin
You say you wanna get in my benz ?
Well use me use me cuz you aint that average groupy

#62

Dragon246
23/03/13, 10:03 am

Someone is ignoring the question-
#2

monkeygourmet
20/03/13, 11:17 am

As a NINTENDO FAN, I don’t understand DLC or how the internet and multiplayer gaming work, so I don’t think it’s worth bothering with.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/20/need-for-speed-most-wanted-dlc-will-only-hit-wii-u-if-fan-support-is-shown-says-criterion/

And yet pointing out me. Ironic.
Everyone has a favourite and a choice. Fact of life.

@Zinc,
:D Philosophical?

#63

zinc
23/03/13, 10:11 am

^ Stare a beautiful booty long enough & you will transcend into a Zen like tranquility…

Or get a slap ;-)

#64

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 10:12 am

@62

You are so stupid it’s hilarious… I love your little trawling trips around the site. It’s getting to be quite an OCD now isn’t it.

I love good games. Nintendo consoles I grew up with (after C64/Atari ST etc…), then I went Playstation for a long while, I got sick of Sony’s arrogant practice after PS3 release and showing CGI demo’s which was a lie. I do love some Sony exclusives though.

Thing is, you don’t really see me constantly posting pro Nintendo / MS or whatever news anywhere round the site do you?

Im happy to praise a good game regardless of what company makes it.

Also, if your going to start digging through peoples laundry, at least show other articles or posts to make a balanced view:

“I don’t know how it can ‘feel’ amazing.

The Wii U pad doesn’t have analogue triggers, so i’m not sure how well it’s going to cope with a driving sim.

Mario Kart will be fine but I can’t imagine a game like this working too well on the tablet pad.

Also 60fps for driving sims on console should really be the way to go. I’d rather sacrifice some other effects to boost the fps any day.

At the moment, it looks like the PS4 is going to max out at 1080p and 30fps on most games (driving sims and fighting games hopefully 1080p / 60fps), with lots more effects going on.

Thing is 30fps needs to be locked solid. Im really starting to find console games dipping into the 20′s terrible to play. Dark Siders 2 was awful, Cyrsis 3 on 360 is almost un-playable IMO.

Also, screen tear needs to be a thing of the past for PS4 / 720, it actually ruins a game for me now, again; Darksiders 2 being a good example of a shitty product from a tech perspective.”

I fully understand certain consoles limitations, I don’t put any company in an ‘ivory tower’

….Still can’t believe you tried to link to a post that contained obvious sarcasm… oh dear! O_o

I can just imagine you sat there, your eye’s darting through forum posts, your mind on fire, desperatly trying to seek out a morsal to use against soemone…

#65

Djoenz
23/03/13, 10:16 am

@62
You can actually be fan of more than one console :p

Oh and yeah I do love big butts..omnomnom.

Sony’s CrossBuy and CrossPlay.
Buy ps3 title and get vita version for free. Hopefully buy vita version or psp version and get ps3 version free.

I could play all those psp version or vita versions on my ps3 cause I never owned a handheld. I would love to play them.

Sony said they would implement this. I hope they still do and perhaps thats where the 100 games are come to play.

As for which titles etc. we just have to wait and see.

#66

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 10:23 am

@65

Cross buy, PS Plus with Vita is great.

The thing is, I got a 4gb memory card with mine, to fully take advantage of Plus / Crossbuy on Vita you need to pay for Plus then a 32gb Memory stick.

Thats almost £75… Thats a really shitty hidden cost if you ask me!

Suddenly ‘free’ isn’t really the best choice of word! Mind you, the fact that plus works on PS3 too is nice.

Sony seriously need to drop the price of memory cards. It reminds me of the rip off PS1 days, buy the console, but to get it working, you have to pay another £40 to save your games…

#67

Lengendaryboss
23/03/13, 10:28 am

Let me try this again Guys does it really matter if Dragon is Pro Sony, everyone is pro someone. There are PC fanboys, Xbox fanboys, PlayStation fanboys and Nintendo fanboys they all enjoy their companies and their respective platforms can’t we all just leave it as that?

#68

Djoenz
23/03/13, 10:29 am

@66
Yeah that sucks man hehe. Thats why I hope they implement this CrossPlay asap. It would definitely make a customer out of me.

#69

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 10:32 am

@67

Go on then, im game! ;)

#70

polygem
23/03/13, 11:01 am

@67. no problem with anyone saying “i am a fan of brand xyz”. what stinks are people who are constantly throwing shit in every other direction. most of the time its the guys that dont even own the other consoles. they are just throwing shit. making their beloved company look good and everything else bad. thats just childish bullshit. this site always had some rough opinion based discussions going on and thats cool…but in the last 6 month or so it became a huge sony marketing boner page indeed. i like sony man, i dont want some pseudo sony loyalists making this brand look silly. thats exactly what those people are doing though and they dont even realise that.

#71

polygem
23/03/13, 11:06 am

@mg…sigh. its so easy to get me hyped. now i watched a good amount of soul sacrifice footage…day one for me, so yeah, lets slay some beasts together in may!

#72

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 11:23 am

@70

Basically, this.

The worse part for me though, is the grasping at straws and desperatly trying to twist my words.

The classic at the moment is my comments on MS & ‘Kinect 2.0′. trying to make me out to be a conspiracy theorist when we all know MS is completly advertising and media focused next gen, and there are hundreds of articles around talking about this for better or worse.

It’s called mud slinging, bad politicians or people worried there arguements don’t hold water like to do it to distract from what someones actually saying. It’s rife on here at the moment.

Def up for some Soul Sacrifice though Poly! :)

#73

G1GAHURTZ
23/03/13, 11:56 am

when we all know MS is completly advertising and media focused next gen

^ See this…?

This is your problem, right here.

There is a very, very golden rule, that goes: ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’

Especially when you have absolutely zero proof to back it up.

It stops you from looking like a paranoid waffler.

#74

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 12:09 pm

@73

Your kidding me right?

It’s not just MS obviously, but the way we access games and the new revenue streams companies are focusing on are plain for all to see.

Just cast a little look back over last year and check how many articles and patents, specualtion and concrete proof there is that gaming isn’t the main focus for MS and a lot of other companies at the moment.

The scene has shifted, now weather or not you or I care about that is neither here nor there. It’s just happening, and we are seeing more and more evidence of this through things like micro transactions, dash board adverts, free to play, subscriptions, season passes etc…

I don’t understand why you think my view is so ‘out there’.

Obviously you can combat all this with the, ‘if you don’t like it, don’t play it’ statement or words to that effect.

I can’t really come back from that as it’s just the same as saying ‘haters gonna hate’.

Seeing games like Dead Space 3 get raped through a twisted and greedy marketing teams view of a product should provide a nice example of where a lot of franchises may be heading in the future.

http://www.vg247.com/2011/06/14/microsoft-preparing-kinect-driven-advertising/

I know nothings come of it yet, but it’s baby steps with all this kind of stuff.

#75

Lengendaryboss
23/03/13, 12:11 pm

@73 The Golden rule is not really listened to when your on the internet, plus if someone opinion is negative just let him/her voice it and move on. Don’t you think this could be the outcome on the Xbox720 “when we all know MS is completly advertising and media focused next gen” he is probably basing it on MS approach with Xbox360.

#76

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 12:25 pm

@75

Well, i’m basing it on the fact that the Xbox was originally intended to be a ‘sleeper’ media device to get into the living room space.

The product has slowly changed over the course of it’s life and I think that the 720 will be the logical conclusion of this.

There’s a constant stream of news and commentators surrounding MS battle for the living room space, along with Apple, Google etc… It’s just not all about games anymore, thats all im saying.

That would be fine if these changes and the way we consume media haden’t had what I deem a negative effect on games in general.

Now, thats my opinion. Mybe G1GA loves DLC, advertising, pay to win etc… Again, that is his opinion, but to me, these things all appear when big companies start to understand how to ‘break’ a product down and sell you individual aspects at a premium price.

EA are very open about this, especially from a mobile perspective, although, with games like Dead Space, maybe we are starting to see a shift into other games too.

The fact that it’s rumoured they have some kind of exclusive deal going with MS for the 720, alarm bells start ringing.

For the record; Unless they completly fuck it up, the 720 is my first choice next gen as I love the pad, want to carry my stats over and hopefully (wishful thinking) my 50 or so games I have purchased on XBLA.

#77

G1GAHURTZ
23/03/13, 12:43 pm

I’m not debating the issue at all, I’m just trying to help you out, mg.

You came across as if you didn’t understand why so many people have such a problem with your comments, so I am pointing out that perhaps it’s your approach which is the issue.

I learned a long time ago that when you make a general statement with a general meaning, people will take the WORST possible, most PEDANTIC interpretation of what you say.

You have to make statements that can only be interpreted as you intend them to be interpreted, because people (fanboys) will pretty much never give you the benefit of the doubt.

You have to choose your words carefully. Especially if what you say is negative

For example: “when we all know MS is completly advertising and media focused next gen

Now, if you don’t want any trouble, what you need to say is: ‘when it clearly appears as though MS is putting a huge amount of focus on advertising and media.’

See. Now, A) Your statement becomes an opinion, and B) No one can interpret the word “completely” to mean that MS will have absolutely no games, next gen.

Now, if people disagree with your opinion, they will probably respond to you in a reasonable manner, and not just see you as attacking their platform of choice with baseless claims.

@75:

I don’t have any problem with people being negative. It doesn’t really bother me, unless they are blatantly trolling.

As I explained to mg, I was just trying to shed some light on why he may be feeling slightly victimised.

#78

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 1:16 pm

@77

Thanks, thats some good advice.

I do feel it’s a sorry state of affairs that i have to re-read each post I make for the fear of someone cherry picking a certain part and running with it.

It smacks of avoidence and generally used by people wanting to label someone.

But again, thanks for the tip. Next time, i’ll try and choose my words more carefully! :)

#79

Djoenz
23/03/13, 1:18 pm

Damn some people are really exaggerating stuff. Who gives a sh*t.
Go cry some more. Ffs.

#80

Dragon246
23/03/13, 1:18 pm

I wonder why its only 2 guys on this page who have problems with me. Looks like they have nothing else to do in life.
“You are so stupid it’s hilarious”
Ha. really? After getting pointed out by so many people, still you cant understand?

@Djoenz,
“You can actually be fan of more than one console :p”
Definitely.
“Damn some people are really exaggerating stuff. Who gives a sh*t.
Go cry some more. Ffs.”
Now they are crying foul because got pointed out by so many people. But I completely expect him to come calling to me soon and not learn anything from this. Hopefully he will leave me alone now. Personal insults for loving/hating a company? Not interested in that kind of shit.

Peace. Looks like the same 2 guys want to continue this forever. Name-calling is in their veins, as you can see above.

Completing Uncharted Golden Abyss platinum. Much better than listening to nobodies on the internet.

#81

Djoenz
23/03/13, 1:26 pm

@78
Trust me face to face is much better discussing etc. On forums and what not its so hard to express sometimes cause people can misinterpret a lot of things.

Oh boy I had my share with certain arrogant people acting brave behind their keyboards.

But what Im trying to say is speak your mind. You type something once keep it tht way. Dont edit your posts just to keep some internet nerds satisfied.

#82

monkeygourmet
23/03/13, 1:50 pm

@80

Whats been pointed out?

The fact that I need to ensure my posts are more crystal clear so idiots don’t try and spin them into something they are not?

This conversation is fruitless.

#83

polygem
23/03/13, 2:31 pm

monkey don´t become more polite…you already are polite enough. people wanna hear what they wanna hear. this is no freaking uno meeting, it´s a videogame news page.
dragon look at yourself don´t give a fuck about what others think of you or me. it proves shit on the internet.

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