Fighting games have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years, but it appears that the revitalized market may have finally reached its carry capacity. Capcom announced today that Street Fighter X Tekken’s sales have fallen well below expectations, and Capcom is blaming the crossover fighter’s poor performance on an over-saturation of the fighting genre.
Every handheld system since the original Gameboy has been released in just about every color imaginable, and in due time, Sony will undoubtedly have a variety of colors and special themed shells for the Vita. For now though, potential buyers are limited to the standard piano black, but today Sony announced that they’re going to roll out 2 new varieties of Vita hardware for the Japanese market.
Vita owners suffering through the system’s post launch drought, rejoice: XSeed announced this weekend that they’ll be bringing over two previously Japan-only Vita titles to America sometime later this year.
Sure, Sega may be in a dire financial situation right now, but it doesn’t seem like they’re letting their cash flow problems get in the way of the business of making games (at least in Japan, anyway.) Sega recently filed several new trademarks in their home country, and one of them seems to hint that there’s a new Valkyria Chronicles game in the works.
Earlier today Amazon removed the upcoming 2D action-RPG/brawler hybrid Dragon’s Crown from their website and unceremoniously cancelled all preorders for the game, leading many to believe that the game had been cancelled. Thankfully, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Feel like buying a game this week? Well, why buy one game when you can get three! Both Amazon and Target are running a sale this week that should make frugal gamers (read: broke-ass bastards) very happy.
Sega announced today that their upcoming multiplayer action-RPG Phantasy Star Online 2 will be based around a free-to-play pricing structure. They also announced that the game (or perhaps a watered-down version of it) would also be playable on your smartphone.
As of March 1 the PS Vita has sold over 1.2 Million units, worldwide, according to Sony. It launched in Japan last December and only just made its way to Western shores last month, but it seems that it is already off to a very strong start, but not quite as strong as Nintendo.
I said earlier that I wouldn’t buy a Vita until it had a killer app. I guess I have to buy a Vita now.
The Playstation Vita doesn’t have a UMD drive (thank god,) but it is still technically backwards compatible with PSP games: most PSP games downloaded via the PSN Store are fully playable on Sony’s shiny new handheld. In Japan, PSP owners can register their UMD games with PSN in order to receive partially discounted digital versions of all of their old games, but unfortunately, Sony announced today that they aren’t extending that measure of good will to American PSP and Vita owners.
For those hoping that the FFX HD remake would overhaul the game (which it honestly needed), then you’re going to be disappointed. It has been confirmed that the upcoming port of Final Fantasy X is simply a remastering of the game.
Sony’s Playstation Vita will hit American shores in less than a month, and expectations are understandably high for the newest handheld powerhouse. While the Vita received a strangely cold reception when it launched in Japan over a month ago, the system still tops many gamers’ most wanted lists, and it’s easy to see why: I mean, who doesn’t want something that basically amounts to a portable PS3? But while the Vita is undeniably a sexy piece of hardware, we shouldn’t forget that this isn’t Sony’s first attempt at bringing the console experience to “the handheld ghetto” (as Sony calls it.) Yes, I’m talking about Sony’s poor, oft-forgotten original PSP, and now, on the eve of the launch of it’s successor, it seems pertinent to look back on the tumultuous history of Sony’s first foray into the handheld gaming market.
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