VITA

It's kind of bad ass

The Playstation Vita is a game system

is anyone buying this thing then? sales have been pretty disastrous in japan so far, be interesting to see if it does better in the west

it requires it's own sony specific vita memory card?

will not buy

The memory card thing is a scam of grand dimensions. Just shameless.

But I bought the vita and I like it a lot. I just prefer dedicated handheld gaming and want the best possible hardware. Haven't played a lot yet but Wipeout is much more impressive than Uncharted (the demo) in terms of making use of the horsepower in my opinion. Rayman looks like the PS3 version. Motorstorm is a fun little thing. No complaints about the physical aspect, the controls. But I'm easy to please with most dual stick setups, even the 3DS frankenstick.

Most importantly I get to play psp Monster Hunter Freedom Unite to tide me over until a new handheld MH is released in the west some day.

The UI is kinda ugly but in a charming way. Most impressive feat is instant switching between game and UI main screen.

^^^ all of this OTM, particularly re: how amazing Wipeout looks/feels

This is the first "dedicated" handheld gaming device I've owned. I basically bought it on a whim last night; after setting up Remote Play and streaming music from my Stora through my PS3 onto my Vita, I have not felt any guilt whatsoever.

also planning on picking up Virtua Tennis 4 tonight, which was the demo that made me go "okay yes I am buying this"

I kind of hate you guys right now for saying "you can play Wipeout on it"

my kingdom has been compromised so many times by people saying this, but I am actually horrible at wipeout, I just feel a compulsion to buy it

i've bought two sony consoles for the sole purpose of playing wipeout, i'm not gonna make it three.

haha I am awful at Wipeout too

my PSP was lost to the sands of time after a breakup when I misread "I still have your PSP, charger" as "I still have your PSP charger"

actually I think she just didn't have a comma in there

kinda wish i had never given away my game boy advance (before i got a DS, which i barely ever played). pinnacle of hand-held gaming imo.

Game Gear 4eva.

For Wipeout: Learn to love the airbrake.

The memory card thing is a scam of grand dimensions. Just shameless.

for reals

still... traded my 3DS (no battery life lol) against a VITA

I got one of these and it owns quite substantially. I'm waiting for my case (the badass one) to come in before I start bringing it everywhere, but it honestly holds its own surprisingly well as a home console too.

I'm thinking that most of my purchases will be digital with exceptions for games like Persona 4 or Gravity Rush or etc. I *really* can't wait for The Show so that I can build up my RTTS dude on the bus; these are exciting times to have a 2+ hour roundtrip public transportation commute.

and as much of a ripoff as the memory cards are, they're nothing compared to the ripoff bonanza of the cradle. $20 for a laughably flimsy piece of plastic and it doesn't even come with a USB cable? gtfo.

I feel like the games are too big to go purely digital - even if I were to spend $100(!) for a 32 gig card, I think one would waste more time managing & redownloading content than switching in and out the little game cards. I don't know - I kind of like the tiny little blue cases too.

Yeah I'm really loving this system to the point where I've thought "this is the ultimate handheld", this is where I've wanted handhelds to be. Sorta makes me wish Nintendo went 3rd party so I didn't need two pieces of hardware.

motorstorm RC is sick

You guys

Wipeout 2048

I mean

why did they design the OS to be so goofy & twee? I love my VITA but wish the OS was as classy & sleek as XMB

xp y to maek me jealous?

Loving the youtube comments though. "It's chronologically fucked up. What about the thrust trail coming from the back of the ships? That's more consistent with 2097 rather than the first Wipeout, where the craft used afterburners. Annoying..." Pretty sure I saw a Predator ship in the background too.

motorstorm RC is sick

― the jeremy lin of YANIV (cozen)

It's not out in the US for a couple more weeks :(

So the controls are alright? The lack of H2H multiplayer was a bit off a turn off, but I guess not at that price... is the leaderboard stuff enough?

a bit of a

i would totally trade a 3ds for a vita
but then i would trade a vita for a waffle cone

adam's sad gaming world circa 2012: i rarely have the time/attention span to sit and play a Major Console Game these days and i feel bad monopolizing the tv while my (non-gaming) gf just wants to watch 30 rock reruns. my 2008 vintage macbook is not really capable of playing any recent games and i am bored with emulators/dosbox/etc.

my favorite system of all time is the DS. most of my gaming time at this point is less-than-an-hour bursts with the occasional marathon. i like the idea of iOS games but find many of them lacking depth (i mostly just play ticket to ride pocket).

it seems that sony is moving toward selling smaller games at reasonable prices via download (motorstorm etc) and AAA titles via disc and that the vita is equally capable of either. is this an accurate impression?

should i buy this y/n

(ie justify my irrational desire for the vita)

you basically just described the apotheosis VITA user

cozen otm; the Vita feels like it was designed with the singular purpose of satisfying that segment of the gaming market who spends most of their time on iOS stuff these days but wants something meatier and more substantial. given the power under the hood I think it could attract a lot of attention from all the Steam indie devs too if enough people buy into the platform.

hardcore games versus casual gamers

pls to make recettear VITA

psyched for gravity daze. anyone importing?

I've heard that a bunch of EU/AUS folks are importing the cart since it's PSN-only in them thar regions

bought this, suck at fifa

Best version of FIFA yet. Loving the extra control from back screen shooting, flick kick football style free kicks, front touch through balls & passing into space.

i have to train myself to hold the vita like it is a dainty madeleine so i don't autoshoot the ball into the stands every time i hit the front 1/3 of the pitch. aside from that, yeah it's pretty excellent.

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my only complaint about Virtua Tennis 4 is that casual mode is too easy, other than that WAU WHAT A GAME

does it have a weird quest mode where you can power up a custom player and unlock new courts and stuff? old gameboy advance one had something like that and it was fun.

It most certainly does! They added a semi-annoying random board game component to it where you are basically traveling across a map with randomly generated "flight tickets" that can move you 1 to 4 spaces, plus they've added weird "accidents" that make you lose money or get hurt. That part kind of sucks but it is semi-relevant in that in the older versions basically allowed you to play pretty much every single tournament without making any choices/sacrifices; now, if you try to do that you will find yourself sidelined when the big tournaments start with accruing penalties against you for not being there on time.

I haven't played Virtua Tennis for the first one, where I thought "huh, how entertaining could a tennis game really be? Weird." Then I pop it into the Dreamcast and suddenly a world of awesome was unleashed.

hahahaha yes the Dreamcast is where my Virtua Tennis addiction began

sadly it may be the only videogame I'm actually pretty good at

i was having this little buyer's remorse panic attack last night, why do i buy these ridiculous gadgets etc etc. then i realized i had been playing fifa for 5 hours.

haha OTM, I did exactly the same thing with Wipeout 2048; I was all "jesus I don't need this why did I even buy it oh it's 2:30"

thinking dreamcast virtua tennis is in my personal top 10. it is just incredibly fun w/a group of friends. perfect mix of being totally intuitive and easy to pick up and play but being deep enough that the game doesn't get old.

and thanks for the info, djp!

Killscreen continues to be staggeringly useless

How can anyone read that site.

Giving the device the subway test, I find not only my hands, but my whole body wrapped around the Vita as if it were a cello.

lol wtf why is he trying to fuck his Vita on the subway

a sign of identification with the hardcore, another quaint idea that I assume will soon join the ranks of cyberpunk...

lol cyberpunk yeah yeah yeah but every once in a while i think about the old cyberpunk rpg and how in the main sourcebook a "cellular modem" is this crazy expensive thing that allows one's netrunner or whatever to "jack in" from anywhere he or she pleases.

http://uwbcsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/johnny-mnemonic-big.jpg

by which i mean iphone

why no netflix on UK vita sony

Tearaway is fun

that Vita TV thing is absolutely bombing in Japan btw, such a bad idea

so is soul sacrifice worth playing? i plugged it in on PS+ but not sure if i wanna waste the gigabytes yet, v v cursory internet searches didn't tell me much aside form inafune and EMOOOO

current amazong pricing is 250 for the walking dead bundle + a 32 gig card.
i am kinda doomed to get one of these after the holidays i think

http://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-2-Limited-PlayStation-Vita-Bundle/dp/B00HLT0YT0/
new edition slim vita is $170 + 32 gig card is $66 = $240
and even with probably 30+ games already dl'd from ps+, i simply can't handle that price until it hits $200. Another year i guess.

I'd still very much recommend a used first gen vita to the slim update, the difference in screen quality is vast.

i should really be posting on this thread more.

i have been playing this thing a bunch! aside from being a pretty dope device on which to play PS classics (started my MGS replay on PS3; moved the save and the game to my vita to continue) and a never-ending stream of free PS plus games (started fez again, loving it on here. also: gravity rush, uncharted, dragon's crown, spelunky, luftrausers, rogue legacy, olliolli2 all in various stages of backburner and/or mid-play), I've also been getting into these Spike Chunsoft visual novel things. Specifically, Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2 (although I bought Zero Escape so that's probably next).

I think I was already pretty effusive about DGR1 in the year-end poll but i'll say it again -- get on this if you have a vita! it's insane! the second one is so far a tiny bit of a letdown imo, but still good (and if you like the first as much as I did, it's a foregone conclusion, you'll play 2 anyway).

also last night i stared at my screen mouth agape because i unlocked a trophy called "Is it medicine or social skill?". The game is already full of twisty turny plot stuff which i was already like "wtffffffff" before the trophy, and then it popped up and i was like NOW YOU'RE QUOTING THE KNIFE? GET OUT OF MY BRAIN.

AC Liberty and the vita Killzone were both something like 60% off last month so I picked those up. Haven't touched Killzone yet. AC is something I've never played before so I don't know how this sits relative to others in the series but it so far feels hugely linear and gameplay light, I'm pretty much just walking from cutscene to cutscene with the option of collecting stuff here and there on the way if I can convince myself its worthwhile. Maybe that's normal for AC.

I hit a wall with Little Big Planet because I mostly play vita on the train, and I got to a level where it wanted me to start tilting the console around. I ain't doing that in public. But I feel like I'm pretty close now to having played every AAA vita game to ever come out so i guess that's something to aim for (does DGR count as one of those? You've convinced me to try it either way).

I doubt it counts as "AAA Vita". It's way too niche. Persona 4 minus the RPG, plus light Phoenix Wright-ing. I think the world collectively yawns and shrugs when you say "visual novel..." (I do too, though, so this game is more exception than rule.)

Glad you'll play it too! I really hope this console gets more love in the future... I really like it, and I love weird Japanese handheld games, but it seems like I maybe picked the wrong horse this time around. Looking at Atlus's releases on 3DS vs. Vita is painful. They get SMT4, countless Etrian Odysseys, Devil Summoner, and we get a dancing game?!

(well... and Persona 4, which is why I bought this thing in the first place... I guess I can't complain.)

the remote play element is making me consider doing a PS4/bloodborne/vita/64gigcard bourgiefuckhead amazon order of catastrophic proportions.

so persona 4, a vita bundle, a 64 gig card, a ps4 with last of us/infamous/shootshootkillfps, an extra joystick, bloodborne and the strategy guide and a 2 TB drive for the PS4 is a shade over 1k
next gen, you are so special

Persona 4 minus the RPG

Haha I can't tell you how appealing to me this is, given that I recently gave up on persona 4, 60 hours in, after one to many "long tedious crawl through a zero challenge dungeon only to reach a boss I had no chance against" situations. Loved everything else about it but I'm too old for that kind of jrpg grind.

The shine is coming off remote play a little for me. I'm getting connection drops around once every 15 minutes, ps4 is on ethernet, vita is literally 2 feet from my wireless router. Tried swapping out the router for a completely different one and it had no effect, so it can only be down to Sony hardware one way or another, leaves me without any other troubleshooting options really. And that's same-building LAN play, I've still not managed a playable experience over an Internet connection.

yeah, i only used remote play once, and i went through a few menus, and i was like "...i don't know about this."

olliolli 2 on the vita on the other hand i think i like more than the ps4 version. might be the controls or the lack of input lag or something but it is great!

and i need to take back what i said about danganronpa 2 being inferior... the end is some all-time mindfuck japanese video games shit. love it.

Yeah Olliolli definitely fits vita better, I think there's too much travel on the full sized dualshock analogue stick.

opting in here as well; splurged and got a Borderlands 2 edition, 64gig card and persona 4 gold
it was the goddamn ps+ that won me over; before I even get the system, I already have Soul Sacrifice, FF V, Gravity Rush, Uncharted, WIpeout 2048, Binding of Isaac, Metrico, Woah Dave!, Terraria, OlliOlli2, God's Eater Burst, Disgaea 3, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Dragon's Crown, Muramasa Rebirth, Limbo, Joe Danger, Rayman Origins, Sine Mora, Jet Set Radio, Darkstalkers Chronicle, SoundShapes, Castlevania Secret of the Night and two dozen more waiting for me
DAMN YOU SONY

AC Liberty and the vita Killzone were both something like 60% off last month so I picked those up. Haven't touched Killzone yet.

Gah, still haven't touched it...and now it's free with April's PS+.

i'm half-ish way through Zero Escape, good escape the room type game with some interesting wrinkles added on top

and the wrinkles are not as immediately apparent as i thought, it is a nice surprise when you get abt halfway thru

forks you need to get Spelunky and Rogue Legacy and La Mulana in that order

also Frozen Synapse

ps does anyone know when Axiom Verge comes out for the Vita

still waiting on that one. also waiting on the Vita versions of Super Mega Baseball (PLEASE), Towerfall: Ascension (PLEASE BUT NOT QUITE AS MUCH AS SUPER MEGA BASEBALL), Bastion, Papers Please, Hyper Light Drifter, Project Phoenix, Super Time Force Ultra, River City Ransom Underground, the second Trails In The Sky (seriously ugh @ that acronym), and Cosmic Star Heroine. but ugh "there are no good games coming out for Vita because it's a dead system" or something. I feel like the Vita has (or could have) a perfect place alongside Steam - a place where indie titles can break out in a strictly-regulated hardware environment, allowing them to make a definitive version of their game (although you can certainly do that on your own these days). but it's just such a great little handheld jukebox for indie thoroughbreds and weird little games which, when done right, totally justify things like buttons and d-pads. the Vita could absolutely be a console for the ages steering into its reputation being Steam's opportunistic little stepbrother brother.

also I feel like I mentioned this in some other thread, but if you're looking for a grip to make your Vita more ergonomic I really can't say enough good things about the PDP Trigger Grip (although I have an original Vita so idk what folks who use later models should use). they used to be cheap (I actually ended up buying two bc I broke my first after stepping on it like a living anti-drinking poster) but then I guess prices have started creeping upwards ever since stock started running low. regardless, Amazon still seems to have some:

http://www.amazon.com/PSVita-Trigger-Grips-Sony-PS-Vita/dp/B0072A4JVW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1437718250&sr=8-2&keywords=pdp+trigger+grip+vita

they are stupid comfortable and have really good trigger buttons built in so if you are thinking about spending money to make your vita more comfortable when using it around the house (unless you have some giant bag, it's gonna make your Vita too big for any case), consider saving up for one of these or stalking eBay or something.

and I bought Virtue's Last Reward for some reason too

the lesson, as always: make sure to cop every PS Plus game for every platform on the basis of "just in case down the line," as it was given away for free like three years ago.

one of these days I feel like I should take a searching and fearless moral inventory of the effect of PS+ on my willingness to spend for games; there are a number of titles I'm holding back on buying because I"m sure that they'll be on PS+ at some point. on the other hand I do impulse-buy more random shit that goes on sale so on a practical level it may average out in the end.

and I continue to mourn like the Woman in Black for the continued absence of Pac-Man C.E. and/or DX; it's just too perfect. there's even a mini of C.E. already and of course it's one of like five minis that's not available on the Vita or PS4's PSNs.

of course over on the 3DS side they need to do a whole new round of Pac-Man Vs with Wii U and a bunch of 3DSeseseses (and Nintendo deviously forces you to keep your old model around when you upgrade rather than trade it in for credit, so anyone more than one generation deep on the 3DS has another one probably laying around somewhere so people probably have more of these than they think), so there are basically a lot of Pac-Man related threads that need to get picked up in general imo

so i got one of the PS TV's free with my ps4... anyone help with a few questions?

1. Can I use a third party PS3 dual shock with this thing? Seems like the cheapest option given PS4 dualshock are still £40 :-(
2. How big on average are the games? Trying to judge what size memory card (ugh) to buy

2. retail games are roughly between 1-3GB, indies 100MB-1GB. check that the games you want can be played on the PS TV as some are blacklisted - sometimes for good reasons (e.g. game uses Vita touchscreen) and sometimes for no good reason (Danganronpa in EU, some PS1 and PSP games)

not sure if it's too late now (did they close ps mobile yet?) but if you have the chance buy Oh Deer Alpha NOW, it is an amazing outrun style game for 49 cents

I got one for Christmas. With just the stock 8GB card, so my experience has been limited thus far, but I dig it. Almost everything peripheral to the actual game playing seems like junk (countless errors trying to connect to and download from the PS Store, remote access to music and video on my PC doesn't work at all, lots of browser errors and time-outs) but I've come to expect that from my PS3 so I'm dealing. The ease of stopping and starting a game (either via navigating between windows/apps or just turning the Vita off) is perfect, as I'd been thinking that the inconvenience of finding a save point in a game would be incompatible with my need to, like, get off the train and go to work.

I've been slowly accruing a collection (through PS+ and deep discount sales) and also intentionally sidelining most of the crossplay games I've bought with the intention of eventually snagging a Vita, so I have easily 100+ Vita-compatible games to dig into now. I'm totally spoiled for choice and a little paralyzed. So naturally I've been spending most of this week playing the decades-old FF1 (transferring my saved game from the PS3 was pretty painless) and Chrono Trigger. Oh, and Touch My Katamari. Having a good, portable Katamari game just about makes this thing worthwhile all on its lonesome.

Okay, an extended Katamari jag this morning was my first physical experience of overplaying a game. Headache, blurred vision, nausea, all the stuff they warn you about but that I've always scoffed at. And I've played a lot of games for way too long before with no ill effects. Don't know if it was just that game specifically or staring at the Vita screen for too long but that's something I'll need to be mindful of.

we might just get double-digit ILX Vita owners before Sony gives up on this thing entirely

Sony technically has, yeah? I thought I'd read that only third-party developers were making Vita games at this point.

I'm way into it. It's nice to be able to play games on the train and it's nice that a lot of the games seem geared towards shorter playtimes. Beyond the Vita-specific games, there are a ton of PS1 and PSP classics I haven't gotten around to. PS3 cross play and cross save has been pretty painless on the games that support it. Remote play (even leaving aside the fact that only like seven PS3 games support it) is pretty much a laggy bust, unfortunately.

I can't even imagine what magic lies ahead once I can afford to buy a memory card larger than the perfunctory 8gb one that came with the system.

agreed, the Vita library is super stacked; you are in for a good time. I would have guessed that Sony would have wanted to keep memory cards cheap in order to incentivize people into buying more stuff on PSN, but maybe proprietary memory cards are the harsh truth of being the company that runs an Amazon Prime-level awesome deal like PS+

proprietary memory cards are the harsh reality of a company with a history of shitty proprietary formats, from DAT tapes to minidisc to ATRAC to MemorySticks. The prices they charge for their Vita memory cards can be 8 times the equivalent microSD card, fuck supporting that bullshit.

yeah but that screen

A lot of Sony's practices which seem like unfair cash grabs are ultimately and counterintuitively geared towards disincentivizing the consumer from giving Sony even more of their money. Like, for instance, if the PS3 could support more than a 1TB drive or if I could save all of my downloaded PSN games to an external hard drive for later retrieval and installation, I would buy literal shitloads of games. But I'm pretty much limited to buying a more sensible amount of whatever will actually fit on my console. If 64GB Vita cards weren't so expensive, I'd buy several of them and happily fill them up. So because Sony wants to charge $100+ for their proprietary nonsense, they've potentially lost out on hundreds of dollars more in game sales. And I'm just one Vita owner.

I really need to upgrade my memory card. So many games to try but I can only park a handful on my system at a time.

Zero search results for Orgarhythm! Haven't played too much yet but it's kinda great. A real-time strategy/rhythm game with a dancing god and his dancing troops taking down enemies on the beat.

if I could save all of my downloaded PSN games to an external hard drive for later retrieval and installation

pretty sure that the online content is redownloadable forever, including the PS+ content

which is odd and irritating because, even if not gaming, it's worth going in and clicking on each game to add it to your library... even if you don't own that platform, because if you later own it, all those clicks become useful

holy shit - 2k apparently released a port of Enemy Unknown a few days ago! apparently it's pretty buggy but this + Earthbound showing up just in time for my trip to Knoxville for Big Ears is delightful news

and now it looks like the GOTY edition of Civ Rev 2 is coming out on Tuesday, lord have mercy

FYI, y'all, I've taken to combing through the Vita listings in the PSN store every week because I always seem to find sale items that aren't listed on, y'know, the weekly sale page. That seriously has to be the most inept corporate website I've ever encountered.

Seconded, only i now have too much back inventory to even check anymore

For instance, Earth Defense Force 2 and the new Corpse Party are both currently on sale and neither is listed as such.

I inherited one of these; is there anything I need to be playing?

EDF 2 and Persona 4 Golden

There are two Zero Escape games available... Virtue's Last Reward and and Zero Time Dilemma. The first one, 999, may also be, I can't remember. Tbh I've only played ZE2, but it is surprisingly fantastic.

Big, big, big second on Persona 4 Golden. Pretty much one of the only JRPGs I've had the patience to complete in the past ~5 years (this, and Tactics Ogre PSP, and Persona 3 Portable, pretty much).

Danganronpa 1 and 2 are fantastic as well.

A bunch of stuff you may have played on other consoles, are very good on the Vita... Spelunky, Everyday Shooter, Telltale stuff (Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us), Fez, Hotline Miami, Dragon's Crown... if I think of any more I'll post but that's almost 20 games, should keep you busy (esp. with the length of Persona 4).

And then there's the PSP library you can play too...

I honestly don't think I've played all that many Vita exclusives, tbh. I have a bunch but I still haven't upgraded past the 8 GB memory card so that limits my options. I use it mainly for PS1 classics/old stuff in general and anything cross-platform. It's a pretty great portable RPG machine, if that's your bag. I've been playing a lot of XCOM and Dragon's Crown lately.

I can imagine that people might pooh-pooh the Vita out of hand for its dearth of impressive exclusives, but it's pretty cool to be able to play a lot of those non-exclusive games on a handheld platform, imo. RPGs, f'rinstance, that I'd likely never get through at home but that I can easily chip away at an hour at a time on the train.

i have been playing the first persona game. it is not a very good game. it's interesting the ways it seems to have been retrofit in light of the success of the latter iterations tho