Vita Version is Cancelled, I Knew it!!

Fair enough I suppose. There will be games physically made later in some capacity, I'll give you that.

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.

Very interesting. Well, here's hoping I'll get that fangamer e-mail soon so I can get a refund, then. I like how quickly they changed the Pledge info back on the Kickstarter page! I only went with the $60 version to get the Vita physical release, not the super-high priced one, however, so I guess I'll have to see how this goes.  I'm disappointed, but not really surprised other than the lack of a digital version (which I wouldn't want anyway, considering I want this thing on the Vita, and memory card space is a premium on this thing).I guess maybe since there's another delay by the time it comes out it won't be worth it anymore? I don't know, for me I always wondered if the Vita could handle the full game and run well since they're going all out on the consoles but I thought that if they announced it there they must know it's possible.

No, they've decided to give me a full refund. I'm going to put that refund money right into my savings where it will be better spent.

Have you seen any screenshot of gameplay video of the Vita or Wii U? No? Well that's because they haven't done anything up to this point. The main platforms were always PS4, XBONE and PC, the "plan" was to have Armature port them to the Vita and Wii U. When the Wii U version was scrapped in favor of the Switch, I jumped on the forums to ask about the Vita version, people said that everything was still on track for that port. but it was then I realised that we had yet to see any proof that it was in development. I asked a few more time as the months passed about news, screenshot and videos, but no, nothing.  A few months later and now here we are 😠

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Although i don't agree with you in some points, i completely understand your reasoning. It's unfortunate that things ended up they way they did. It's sad to see you, kinda parting due to that, but i respect that.

I hope you come back one day when the game is out, if you decide on buy it, to talk to us about your impressions. I would be eager to know them after such disappointment.

I hope we get to see you here once in a while, actually. After all, this community is still great, even if you got disapppinted by what happened  

Perhaps I should set the record straight, the Vita store is not going anywhere. People will still be able to bring indie games to it, SONY will simply not make any more physical cards. You can still buy PSP & PS1 games for your PSP from your PS3, Mac or PC. Only reason the PSP store is gone is because it was using a different architecture then the PS3, Vita and PS4 store, so there was no reason to keep it just for the PSP. So far, SONY wins over Nintendo when it comes to keeping digital goods alive for new sales and re-downloads.  As for the online play aspect, yes, this will eventually be removed for both Vita and PS3. The solution to all of this was simple:

1- Don't include online play on the Vita, who cares, it's a handheld that people mostly play offline anyway
2- Release the game digitally for backers and future buyers
3- Pre-order physical copies from SONY for backers before the Vita order deadline (about 4000 should have done the trick)

But as I stated earlier, I'm willing to bet that they never started development on it. Pretty sure they were just biting their time to see where the Vita would be in a few years before dropping it, they just used their stated reasons as an excuse to drop a port. Ah Kickstarter, the only time Bait & Switch can be legal.