Do you really think not being able to output games to a TV was one of the main reasons the Vita failed? The Vita TV was released worldwide under the PlayStation TV branding and it was terrible because this was a system with front touch, rear touch and gyro controls none of which are available if you're trying to play the games on a TV.
The Vita failed because everything about it was too expensive, and it never received a truly must have exclusive game.
I personally knew a fair few people who didnt buy it for that reason yes. Sony should have either made vita games playable on the ps3 (so increasing game sales) or made the vita able to output to hdmi.
The lack of games thing is a closed loop problem.
Hardware sales low -> dev's wont make games for unpopular device -> customers wont buy device without good exclusives -> Hardware sales low (loop starts again)
The vita did ok in japan, but in japan the backwards compatible library was much more complete, so the vita already had the great exclusives from the psp era. But it also upgraded those games with anti aliasing etc. Sort of like how people are buying ps4 pro's to enhance base ps4 games.
The vita should have been released as an extension to the psp brand, a upgraded product, same games on both, but the games are enhanced on vita, and have the big screen output (which was also possible on psp). Prices been low help but they are not always the primary factor, there has been expensive consoles that did great and cheap ones that flopped. Vita's were cheap'ish in my opinion, better experience than a smartphone but also cheaper than a smartphone.
quote from here
https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/pl...-or-ps-vita-is-dead-in-europe-and-na-1802020/
Looking at the PS store I was surprised to find that at some point they stopped putting PSP, or even PS1/PS2 titles on the Store. UK version of the store has maybe 1/3 of the titles from the US store, and maybe 1/64 of the titles in Japan store for the Vita/PSP.
Also this a quote from gamefaqs
They did have a plan pre-Vita launch that would have allowed you to buy digital versions of games you owned at a discount, but they never actually implemented it anywhere but Japan.
In short sony ****** it up. Half arsed release outside of japan.
Perhaps the biggest most well known PSP game ff7 crisis core, was not available on the psn store outside of japan for purchase on the vita, I am lost for words.
You couldnt buy physical PSP games as the physical slot wasnt on the vita.
I played and beat ff7 crisis core on my PC via an emulator, I really wanted to pay sony and SE my money for this game but they didnt want to sell it to me.
). To rival the any nintendo handheld requires a lot of effort i feel, things like not using microsd doesnt help really. Also i had issues with aiming on some games where it was as though the stick was still moving which to be seems like poor quaility.
