{"id":12938,"date":"2011-07-15T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"crytek-ps-vita-will-have-a-hard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12938-crytek-ps-vita-will-have-a-hard-time","title":{"rendered":"Crytek: PS Vita \u201cwill have a hard time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli is a fan of Sony&rsquo;s next big thing, but reckons the PS Vita is going to have some difficulty competing in a market already stuffed with smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>The Vita is an absolutely fantastic platform but it will have a hard time, and it might be too late,&#8221; he says in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.develop-online.net\/digital-edition\" target=\"_blank\">Develop.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love Sony as a company, and we have great relations with them, but the Vita is going to have a hard time against the next generation mobiles and all the tablets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s also the 3DS investing in this market,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a battle, and it will be about content and the platform&#8217;s ability to receive the content. Streamlined social connectivity will also be very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comments more or less match up with id&rsquo;s John Carmack, who recently predicted that, within the next year or so, the PS Vita is going to look &ldquo;pretty pokey&rdquo; in comparison to other portable tech.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15664-PS-Vita-will-have-a-tough-time-Crytek?p=475880#post475880\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the PS Vita<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cevat Yerli loves Sony\u2019s handheld, but \u201cit might be too late,\u201d anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}