
Hopefully by the end you’ll have something to direct people to the next time they joke that the Vita doesn’t have any games. Read on, then, to discover the 30 best Vita games currently available. Ads like this probably didn’t help much, to be fairīecause of this, there’s a good chance that if you’re reading this you either don’t have a Vita or are considering getting a cheap one and want to know if there are indeed any decent games available to make your purchase worthwhile. The Vita was (and, four years later, still is) a remarkably powerful handheld with the type of graphical oomph that makes the games available for its rival, the Nintendo 3DS, look like cave paintings by comparison.īut, much as the DS destroyed the far more powerful PSP, Sony once again failed to convince gamers to pony up for their handheld and the Vita’s sales eventually all but flatlined while the 3DS grew from strength to strength. On paper it should never have come to this. Indeed, it’s got plenty more than that: I’ve added another 15 at the end of this list for good measure, and even then there were some I had to leave out. In reality, the Vita does have 30 great games. Sony abandoned its handheld quicker than David Cameron abandons his children in pubs, which led to the understandable consensus that the Vita was dead before its library had a chance to grow. This was the predictable reply I got from all manner of clever individuals every time I informed my Twitter followers that my next ’30 Best’ article would be dedicated to the Sony PlayStation Vita.

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’30 Best’ will now be a monthly series, thanks to my lovely Patreon followers helping me reach a stretch goal. In case you missed them, the full list of other ’30 Best’ articles can be found at the bottom of this page. This is the seventh in my ’30 Best’ series of articles in which I discuss my favourite games ever on a system-by-system basis for the first time in my career.
