Sony should bring back the PS Vita for the PS5 – Reader’s Feature

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A reader argues that the PS Vita would work much better as a modern portable console and the perfect companion to Sony’s PS5.

I have seen an increasing amount of talk lately about the PS Vita and the idea that Sony should not have killed it off so early. I completely agree with this, and have always argued the fact, although I don’t think it’s so much that Sony killed the PS Vita off early as they never gave it their full backing in the first place and just left it to flounder and die.

You don’t have to be an insider to see that Sony America never wanted the Vita and while Japan pushed for it almost as soon as it was out Sony’s support tried up and it became a format mostly for indie games and the odd brave third party game. But it is still a great machine. I still use it on the train to work. The game and controls are much better than a smartphone and it’s smaller and sturdier than a Switch. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the ultima portable and Sony should bring it back just as it is.

I’m sure they could improve the screen but in terms of raw power it’s absolutely fine for indie games and what I think could be its main selling point: streaming.

The Vita already had remote play with the PlayStation 4, which basically worked like a better version of the Wii U idea. That kind of wireless tech has definitely got better over the last 10 years so I’m sure it would be no problem to be able to play PlayStation 5 game seamlessly on the Vita and to use it to play streamed games via PS Now – or PS Plus Premium as it will be soon.

Price was one of the biggest problems for the PS Vita, it was £230 for the cheaper version and £280 for the 3G/Wi-Fi model. That’s obviously a lot but I would assume that, more than a decade later, it could be