Vita Version is Cancelled, I Knew it!!

It's kinda on a par with setting up a date with the hottest babe in town and then receiving the deflating news that she was just leading you on and never interested from the outset. Massive kick in the balls this one!

In this day and age, one would expect gaming to branch out to cover the entire spectrum but, sadly, it isn't. Not really taking a big step forward ... more like taking a sly step sideways!

Sony are beginning to slip down to Konami's level.

Like the other guy said, we understand how Kickstarters work quite well. We understand that it's a donation, but it's a donation based on trust. Trust that the promises made will be fulfilled. Trust that IGA would deliver what he said he would deliver when he said he would deliver it. We are upset because these promises were broken, and our trust has been betrayed. We were let down.


I donated believing that IGA would not let everyone down like Inafune. I figured that IGA had actual experience working on these types of games and could get his vision completed within the time allotted, especially with his track record of developing good games fairly quickly. Obviously, I was wrong, and this is just another high profile Kickstarter disaster that makes the entire platform (and perhaps even the concept of crowdfunding) seem like a joke and a waste of money. When you have several high profile crowdfunded titles like MN9, Unsung Story, Yooka Laylee, and now this that end up as disasters for various reasons, you lose a lot of faith.

I just had to make a video, tried to be as objective as possible but fair to say I did back a digital ps vita copy.

I'm STILL beyond words to describe how disappointed I am.

Please, anyone! Describe the obstacles for NOT making the vita version come true. Region 3 will continue the vita support beyond 2020. Game cards are avaliable. What is the true reason behind this cancelation, that was still on track just a few months ago (May)... conveniently (?) before the slacker backer period ended. Armature has been working on this for quite some time, right? What about their work on the engine adaptation for vita? WTF, etc.?

Wait, that should definitely be eligible. The only ones that aren't would be "limited" tiers that involved game design or the production of very limited items, etc.

On the other side of the discussion, I think the Vita could have handled Bloodstained, yes, but only after the significant re-tooling to have Unreal 4 run on the system, an effort that originally would have seen Armature develop such for the Vita and Wii U, and then release the code publicly in both cases for others to use. At the time, that sounded like a really nice and cool thing to do. Now, it would mean almost nothing, and doing such for only the Vita, in a situation where we were already looking at Bloodstained being very possibly the last physical Vita game to exist.

It was looking like a whole lot of effort to put into something that may not be able to actually launch at all, and even if it did likely not recoup any costs. It'd be a collector's dream, but a very shaky publishing effort. The main/only sense it would make would be to fulfill the slated promise to backers, but even that has been made difficult by not only the development circumstances for the platform, but Sony themselves.

Many of the folks that selected it I imagine did so under the expectation that "man this will be really rare". They might play it, they might not. For any online features or later DLC, they'd probably have to use something else even if they wanted.

Really, this was inevitable. I'm not saying it's cool or anything for the people that wanted it on Vita, just that the Vita's writing has been on the wall for a solid year and a half at least. I'll be surprised if any unreleased crowdfund game going forward that had Vita in its list actually turns up on the system.

I understand that a lot of people are salty after the announcements so emotional posts are expected. That said, if anyone thinks that the Bloodstained devs cancelled the Vita port for any reason besides them absolutely having to then you're a fool. There is 100% no way they would make such a decision and willingly welcome the backlash and PR bomb that goes with it. No. Their backs were clearly up against the wall here. Again, I know people are upset and disappointed but it's important to maintain a three-dimensional perspective here.

And in the spirit of maintaining that three-dimensional perspective, for all the people complaining about Kickstarter game development always disappointing in some capacity remember that Iga actually said he agrees with you. haha In traditional game development the public almost never learned a title existed until it was about 70% completed. Obviously that strategy circumvents almost all the problems most frequently plaguing Kickstarter games. The speedbumps Bloodstained has ran into are no different than the ones large publisher games face. Unfortunately, most consumers don't care to do their homework or understand the nature of the production they're investing in with Kickstarter. Getting a peek behind the curtain of game development comes with a price. Believe it or not it's not all fun and games.

Seriously? What about LRG who will be putting out vita games through 2019 and possibly 2020? What about SLG who just made a  VERY successful vita announcement? What about R3 EAS? In the light of this, what tells you that Bloodstained probably will be the last vita game?

I don't consider what LRG/SLG and other similar companies do as official new game releases, from what I understand all they do is port existing games under license from the developer that already exist as downloadable on that same platform. It's not all that different from how much, MUCH later on, people do things like this:
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Which I also don't really consider actual additions to the NES/SNES library, cool as it might be that people do these things. not long ago there was a "new" SNES fighting game released on a cart, same as with that. I see most of these things as  glorified repros with one of the main selling points and draws being how extremely limited they are, which also keeps things less risky/profitable for the...micro publisher I guess we'll call them. It's also weird how almsot all of the pics I've seen of their actual cases don't have ESRB ratings on them. I know these guys are official enough to exist, at least, and didn't think you could do that.