PlayStation Vita Console Discussion

[Shorty]

Vita software update today is pretty great. Adds a smartphone style toggles menu on holding the PS button, to control 3G, wifi, brightness, volume etc.. Found myself heading into the menu mid-game for those things a few times, so a welcome addition

[Daft]

So glad the Plus cloud storage is way easier to access. Was such a hassle before.

[Debug Mode]

Completely lose their shit when the dogs started speaking? WHYYYYYY

 

[Daft]

I would have probably picked it up. Then the talking started.

[Shorty]

Sure, because how else do you make a Nintendogs clone look like less of a Nintendogs clone?

[V. Amoleo]

They're releasing Borderlands 2 on Vita.

 

It's also getting a price cut to €199 though I'm not sure how much we'll benefit from it considering it's already around that price at retailers.

[liger05]

Still not enough games. Too many indie ports, which don't sell consoles.

[Shorty]

Very much looking forward to Rogue Legacy I played the PC demo but never got round to buying it, it's much better suited for the Vita!

 

Btw, anyone been able to register their Killzone Mercenary beta key yet? The email said after the store update on the 20th, but it wasn't doing anything late last night.

[Happenstance]

I hope the price reduction for the memory cards comes through soon, I really want to get a new one.

[Daft]

How much were they/are they going to be?

[Ashley]

Apparently they've been reduced by 20% so taking Game's current prices the 8GB would be £22.40 and 16GB would be £34.40. So probably £25 and £35.

[Daft]

Cool, then the 16GB is already £35 on Amazon.

 

Should still be cheaper.

 

Sony has since released a full list of its newly announced roster of indie games coming to PS4 and Vita.

 

The ones coming to both PS4 and Vita include:

 

Assault Android Cactus (Witch Beam)

FEZ (Polytron Corporation)

Final Horizon (Eiconic Games)

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Dennaton Games and Devolver Digital)

Rogue Legacy (Cellar Door Games)

Samurai Gunn (Teknopants)

Switch Galaxy Ultra (Atomicom)

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Nicalis)

Velocity 2X (FuturLab)

Volume (Mike Bithell)

Wasteland Kings (Vlambeer

 

Vita-exclusive:

 

Age of Zombies (BlitWorks/Halfbrick)

A-Men 2 (Bloober Team)

Avoid Droid (Infinite State Games)

Broken Sword: the Serpent's Curse (Revolution Software)

Eufloria HD (Omni Systems)

Flame Over (Laughing Jackal)

Gravity Crash Ultra (Just Add Water)

Gunslugs (Abstraction Games)

Joe Danger 1 (Hello Games)

Joe Danger 2 (Hello Games)

Kick & Fennick (Green Hill Studios)

Muramasa Rebirth (Aksys Games)

Supermagical (Tama Games)

Table Top Racing (Ripstone)

 

Nice little list. It's a shame there'll be those who don't count them because they aren't retail games.

 

Weird that Minecraft is missing from the list.

Edited August 21, 2013 by Daft

[Happenstance]

Tesco have got the 32gb Vita memory card for £49 at the moment

 

http://www.tesco.com/direct/psvita-memory-card-32gb/753-4195.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=753-4195

[Sheikah]

That's not too bad.

[dwarf]

That's still outrageous.

[Sheikah]

Yeah but I think they're subsidising the cost of the console. The Vita costs the same as a 3DS XL, which is a bit of a joke.

[dwarf]

To store a reasonable amount of games on the Vita you'll want a 32GB card, which effectively adds 25% onto the system's price tag, and even that amount of storage won't be enough for an avid player. The inconvenience of memory is the biggest barrier to me getting the system. Needing multiple cards is fucking ridiculous in this day and age, it just isn't worth the hassle. When I stump up a lot of money for a mobile device (tariffs aside) I expect that to be it, no mumbo jumbo. Call me an entitled bastard but that's the honest truth. Everything needs to be in one place.

[Sheikah]

I've got a 16GB which is pretty much fine, although a bit more would be nice. I could probably store maybe 4 full Vita games on and a few PS1 titles. It's an inconvenience having to transfer stuff, but I rarely want to access more than that many games at once.

 

So long as it's still mostly cheaper to buy physical copies of things, it's mostly for my Plus content.

[dwarf]

It's something you shouldn't have to think/worry about. Before I buy the system I have no idea what my total expenditure on the hardware will be in the long run. For me it's all about convenience. Plus is gushing with Vita content now, it would be nice to download it all to the system and try the odd new game out when you feel like it.

[Sheikah]

Aye...unfortunately storage shafting seems to be the done thing these days. Especially with phones and tablets (the latter often leaving out the option of microSD support).

[Daft]

PlayStation Vita price drop effective Wednesday - UPDATE: Zavvi's price down to £143.99

 

Really hope it picks up the sales a little. Really love my Vita.

[dwarf]

I usually find there's ample space for apps on phones and tablets, merely for dicking around casually. I'd buy a Vita for the more fleshed out games, but that's where the memory problem arises, because at this moment in time the technology isn't at the stage where memory is physically small but impressive in storage and cost terms. The market has changed. I believe demand for Vita experiences is high, it just needs to be delivered in a less shitty way. Apple wouldn't have put out this sort of product (let's not get petty over that remark btw).

[Happenstance]

32gb card £42.99 from Sainsburys

 

http://www.sainsburysentertainment.co.uk/en/Games/PS-Vita/PlayStation-Vita-32GB-Memory-Card/product.html?product=E11083988&utm_medium=GAN_affiliate&clickid=0004e475b161c9a00ae0b846a100375e&utm_source=GAN&utm_campaign=GAN_k582872

[Daft]

Did Sony Just Quietly Leak a Vita Re-Design?

 

[Agent Gibbs]

New thumb sticks? Damn there better than the current ones