The Vita has loads of upcoming games - Papers Please, Broforce, Starbound
The Vita was almost totally absent from Sony's gamescom 2014 presentation, but there's a huge pile of games on or coming to the portable console.
In the wake of Sony's gamescom 2014 conference, a bunch of disgruntled Vita owners took to Twitter and Facebook to shout abuse at Shahid Ahmad, Sony's Vita and indie champion.
The summary of their complaints is basically that the Vita has no games (and also, because this is the Internet and people are awful, that everyone at Sony should suffer terrible calamities and are a bunch of [insert favourite slur here]).
Ahmad took this in his stride, and responded by tweeting out, off the top of his head, a list of recent and upcoming Vita games.
It’s funny, a few weeks ago people were jokingly asking us to stop bringing so many games to Vita because they couldn’t keep up :)
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Remember, it won’t be long before you see Minecraft on Vita.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Tales of Hearts R to come on Vita.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Velocity 2X to come on Vita. (Likely to be rated by some as Vita’s greatest title)
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Papers Please to come to Vita.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Super Exploding Zoo to come to Vita.
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Pix the Cat (addictive as erm…an addictive thing) to come to Vita.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Nom Nom Galaxy to come to Vita.
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Volume to come to Vita.
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When I’m back in the office tomorrow, I’ll remind you of the many others. Like ASSAULT ANDROID CACTUS (GOD YES!)
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Hotline Miami 2 to come to Vita.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Broforce to come to Vita.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Hohokum just out for Vita.
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Risk of Rain coming to Vita. (Thanks @ashtonraze for the “leak” ;-))
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Titan Souls. Coming to Vita.
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Frozen Synapse Prime. Coming to Vita.
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Starbound. Coming to Vita.
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Tabletop Racing by former members of WipEOut team is multiplayer and out on Vita.
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Gravity Crash Ultra. Vita.
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Axiom Verge. Coming to Vita.
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Son of Scoregasm coming to Vita.
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And DRM coming to Vita. (Right @retroremakes?)
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And Forget Me Not *beautiful* edition coming to Vita.
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Nuclear Throne coming to Vita.
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Don’t Starve coming to Vita
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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The Swapper. Vita.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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Poor old Vita, eh? Languishing away there on its enormous pile of games. Such sympathy.
One thing that really bugs me when it comes to Vita hate is when people talk about "ports" or "indie spam", snobbily writing off experiences treasured by millions because it's what, not Call of Duty? We had a Call of Duty on Vita, remember? And it was rubbish. And writing cross-platform releases of as "ports" means we should forget about the vast majority of the PS3 and Xbox 360's catalogues, too.
It sounds like Ahmad's also sick of that line of argument.
Fair warning: anyone who hasn’t armed themselves with the facts and uses the term “indie ports” in a derogatory way gets blocked.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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It's also frustrating that some members of our community took to social networks to abuse Sony staff (and journalists, and each other) rather than just airing their concerns calmly. Ahmad takes this much more politely than I would.
I’ll say this for Vita owners; you are the most passionate, dedicated bunch out there. Whatever your position, I respect you for that.
— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) August 12, 2014
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In any case, the fact that Sony focused on the PS during one conference doesn't mean it's given up on its other platforms. After all, how many times was the PS3 mentioned? There's still plenty of support for the older console, even if there's no place for it in Sony's messaging right now.
Thanks, IGN.









