Quote Originally Posted by deadlegion View Post
Can you remember what the highest level character you had was? You can join a friends private match if they're a lower level.
Sorry, can't recall it

Quote Originally Posted by Cosmic View Post
Agreed completely. The difference though is Nintendo can afford to do that whereas Sony can’t right now. Financially Nintendo is strong enough that they could haemorrhage money for the next decade and they’d probably still be here. Sony isn't in that position. The electronics division of the company has been losing money for a long time and Playstation is basically keeping it afloat. They did make a real effort with Vita exclusives at the start - in the first year alone there was Uncharted, Killzone, Wipeout, Little Big Planet and even an exclusive CoD (which likely cost a boatload of money for them to secure and by all accounts turned out awful) but even those five presumably didn’t move consoles to the degree Sony needed. Meanwhile the PS4 is selling like hotcakes and has given them a lifeline so it makes sense they’ll pool their resources into that. It’s a terrible shame but it is what it is.

They did announce they're bringing the Vita TV outside of Japan though so hopefully that might revitalise the platform a bit. We'll have to see what happens.
I know things have been tight for Sony as a company lately but it's hard to change the current status quo of their handheld without a minimal support and effort on their side to remember other companies that there are 2 cool handhelds trying to coexist. Would be a shame to see the PSP go due to piracy and the Vita due to the lack of support by those who created it.

Anyway, as you said, PSVita TV is not a bad way to bring new gamers to their catalogue and the price is very reasonable too. I also think a more Japanese oriented event like the TGS will bring us more news on new software. Vita never had a relevant role in past E3s.