VITA

give us the PS2 vanillaware games & a dept. heaven compilation pls sony

wow MGS3's ecosystem is ridiculously involved. actually very good on VITA too... the controls are not an issue

PS+ initial Vita games announced

EU: Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, Chronovolt, Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
USA : Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Jet Set Radio HD, Wipeout 2048, Gravity Rush, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack!, + PSP game Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.

interesting to see what effect this will have on Vita hardware sales, which have been moribund for the last 6 months - and if you give people access to this many free games, how will it affect software sales?

i was pretty damn impressed by that Plus lineup, i gotta admit. though i'm still far from buying one, this is definitely enticing

huh, so all you have to do is have ps+ and those things instant run?
they may just have had me buy one with that lineup
War of the Lions is great btw, def top ten all time for me

jeez, that Call Of Duty game is getting a right kicking at the moment
current Metacritic : 29
length of single player content : 1 hour
more here http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/call-of-duty-declassifed-is-horrible-but-its-sony-who-will-be-punished

wait, is this thing still $250? maybe for 150 i'd consider but...

currently enjoying P3P and VC2 on this

pretty that telling those are both PSP games
i got one of these for £100 at xmas. i've been mainly playing PSP games too, the only retail game i'm planning to get is P4G. Gravity Rush was a bit disappointing :/

Ok, I picked one of these up yesterday because I had an 8 hour flight and I'll be away from my home consoles for 3 weeks and I had an iphone 4 to trade in and I was feeling increasingly weird about having all those vita games available via PS+ without actually being able to play them.

First impressions are 1) The user interface is no friendlier than the PS3, seems like Sony are just plain bad at this stuff nowadays. 2) Uncharted is pretty stunning, really does feel odd and great (much more than I thought it would) to be playing what feels like a current gen proper console game on a handheld, but 3) Uncharted games are so strange, I like platformers, I like 3rd person shooters, I like puzzle-based adventures, I even like hidden object games and cute touch screen minigames. I just don't want to play all those things at the same time. 4) I still love lumines but it hasn't changed at all. 5) Wipeout is great on this but why did they switch to that dumbed-down default control system without the airbrakes?

Haven't yet tried Pinball Arcade (I expect I'll love it), Gravity Rush, MGS Collection, Jet Set Radio, Big Sky Infinity. Battery held out surprisingly well though, I got almost 5 and a half hours solid play out of it, a lot more than I expected.

anyone interested in playing some peace walker online co-op?

the store is a mess; they need to get someone in charge of that ish and get if fixed

got
WIFI VITA, 4GB card, everybody's golf, persona 3 portable, valkyria chronicles 2, MGS3 HD, MGS5: peace walker, velocity, motorstorm: RC, the 3rd birthday, patapon 2, half minute hero, super stardust delta, Ys: the oath in felghana

want
3DS XL (preferably not red) w/fire emblem & animal crossing
or money (what's a good price?)

new VITA TV thing is odd

weird. how would you play any game that uses touchscreen, back touchpad?
they also announced a much cheaper to make Vita with LCD instead of OLED screen.

Apparently any game which makes use of the touchscreen/gyros/back panel/etc won't get released for the Vita TV. Way to discourage developers from making use of the things that make your console unique.

The use case that does make some sense to me is "stream your PS4 games to this in a second room instead of buying a second PS4" but it'd need to be a chunk cheaper for that to be particularly compelling.

the thing's dying, they might as well destabilise it for quick revenue (not that i disagree with your point)

I love my Vita; being able to play EDF/P4G/The Show/Spelunky/LBP2/Hotline Miami/JGR and soon Terraria, Rogue Legacy, and Binding of Isaac anywhere/everywhere is such a joy. plus all the other games that have already been out & portable before. it's too bad it's going to die a painful death but it's a great piece of hardware with a ton of awesome games so fuk the haters.

i don't think anyone's motivated enough to hate it tbh

lol people would have to know what one is before they could be a "hater"

Pretty much just bought one of these for Persona 4 and I don't even CARE MAN

What else should I get? Already have Hotline Miami on PC, and the show on PS3 (might rebuy anyway), Terraria on PC... I think Wipeout is crossplay...

I fucking LOVE Spelunky, although it's on PC too (and with a daily challenge mode to boot). Still, for indie darlings like it Spelunky/Terraria/Rogue Legacy/Binding of Isaac/Plants vs. Zombies/Hotline Miami/Retro City Rampage etc., there really is something to be said for being able to play these games whenever, wherever, in short bursts or long draw-out sessions (and with solid physical controls too); it's an indie gamer's dream console. Just waiting for the inevitable port of Cave Story so that I can buy it AGAIN.

Other than that, Earth Defense Force (run around killing giant bugs in a b-movie atmosphere), Rayman Origins (this is apparently about to be free soon on PS+ so hold off on spending, but it is a REALLY good platformer), MLB The Show if you like baseball games (and if you have the console version you can pick up & play games from one to the other pretty easily), Disgaea 3 (PORTABLE DISGAEA), Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe (the definitive version [for now; they've said this like five times now] of the only tower defense game I ever liked, and Little Big Planet 2 are all crazy fun. And then all the PSP legacy games (Tactics Ogre! The Warriors! Half-Minute Hero! Valkyria Chronicles 2) and PS1 legacy games (Symphony of the Night! Grandia! Tomba!) and the minis (BUT WHERE IS FUCKING PAC-MAN DX OR EVEN CE COME ON PEOPLE)!

Seriously, there are games for fucking days on this thing; I love it a lot.

ctrl-f "guacamelee" not found

apparently pac-man DX/CE isn't coming to VITA. dumb. the new killzone looks ridiculous & people are raving about it. I still need to pick up gravity rush too

velocity is a good PSmini http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-16-velocity-review

in an ideal world we'd get a DARK SOULS vita along with a viewtiful joe, an okami, a resident evil, and a PES. pls based kaz hirai pls

Sony's shit is always awesome.. I want them to make a huge comeback.

apparently pac-man DX/CE isn't coming to VITA. dumb.

that is awful and I hope whoever made that decision is attacked by bees. ditto for the person who decided not to put Sid Meier's Pirates on the PSP e-store

seriously guys the Vita is basically the Dreamcast of handhelds, except it will not enjoy the fruits of being an awesome emulation machine or have a readily-accessible Fire Pro put out on it. on the other hand, twin sticks!

in an ideal world we'd get a DARK SOULS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Sacrifice_(video_game)

except it will not enjoy the fruits of being an awesome emulation machine or have a readily-accessible Fire Pro put out on it

don't say that, man

this rad-looking Kickstarter game just hit its Vita stretch goal:

http://kck.st/1e78Qoh

oh and motherfucking LA MULANA too

http://www.analoghype.com/video-games/la-mulana-2-coming-to-the-ps-vita/

who has one of these anyway? add me on PSN: dogofthenorth

Er don't I already have you on my list as cozeny? Anyway, added.

I don't understand hotline miami scores. It regularly tells me at the end of a level that I've got, say, 294500/230000.

the second score is a "par" score of sorts - if you pass it, a weapon or mask gets unlocked and thrown into the available pool

Ah got you, ta.

sent you an inv cozen, altho the only game i have plays since i bought it a month or two ago is the least social game ever, persona 4.

Ordered one of these, seeing as there are some decent deals coming about now and I just got PS Plus. Got the 3G + Wifi version, with a 16GB card, one of those "10 'great' games" download things (LBP, Wipeout 2048, Motorstorm RC seem the ones worth mentioning), plus a code for FIFA, all for £145 which doesn't feel too steep. Should hopefully get it tomorrow in time for a bunch of travel I have coming up over the next month.

I can see myself just ending up using it to final get round to playing Final Fantasy VII which I bought on PSN ages ago.

Get it down to 150, 200 with a decent memory card and i will buy tomorrow. No idea why this is my magic price range but it totally is.

200 w/ decent-ish memory card is where it is tho

tbf i say this bc i haven't started DLing games all over the place so 4GB seems fine for my persona 4 savegames

the ps+ thing is the strongest selling point for me. it's a smart move on their point. i feel like i'm wasting money NOT buying it...

ps+ is why I bought mine. nearly a year on and I still haven't bought anything apart from a couple of psp games in a sale lol

it doesn't play the discs, right?

i definitely need a 32 gig card or else i'll be up all night wondering why my memory card is so small
oh it will bother me

only digital psp games via PSN, they have regular sales though (I got Trails In The Sky & Persona 2 for about £10 each)
32gig is more than enough really unless you are a digital hoarder that must have access to all games at all times

geez, they charge $100 for 32GB? wth Sony

yeah the cards are a total scam

so with tax, it's a lot more like 300 bucks instead of 200 with a 32 gig card.
that radio shack discounted one was 160, so they're getting there. maybe after the holidays.

Definitely dropping in price quite steadily over this side of the water. HMV are selling old stock so you can grab just a Vita on its own for about £130 at the moment, but once you add £62 for a 32Gig card (wait, it's cheaper to buy two 16GB cards than one 32GB card on Amazon!?) it's not great, which is why I grabbed one of the bundles. Like others, if it wasn't for PS Plus I wouldn't be buying this at all, but I figure if all I spend is £145 (as I have a PS3 to justify PS+ anyway), it only needs to deliver a few decent free games so I don't feel like it was a waste.

something kinda driving me crazy is that there is such a poor content management system -- i tried to delete everything (except netflix at 30mb and my p4 saves at 4mb) and there were still ~500mb missing from the "max". I don't think it saves any unnecessary system data, so no idea where that missing data is...

why no netflix on UK vita sony

Tearaway is fun