Your experience with Playstation Vita...
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I bought the Vita for Persona 4: The Golden, and only for Persona 4: The Golden. It was glorious. Unfortunately, future SMT titles all seem to be bound for the 3DS, which confounds me to no end because I've tried both and the Vita is a flatout better piece of hardware comfortable to be held in an adult man's hands.
Right now I'm daily praying for Corpse Party: Blood Drive to get localized for North America, and maybe that Bioshock game which was allegedly going to be made for the Vita. The only downer for the Vita is absence of games. I'm half tempted to play that terrible Silent Hill game just so I can play something new on the Vita.
Right now I'm daily praying for Corpse Party: Blood Drive to get localized for North America, and maybe that Bioshock game which was allegedly going to be made for the Vita. The only downer for the Vita is absence of games. I'm half tempted to play that terrible Silent Hill game just so I can play something new on the Vita.
I've rather recently bought one, and while I only have Assassin's Creed and P4 on it, and have only played P4, I've really enjoyed it. It's a well build machine, only downside is the library for it. So far I can't in all honesty say that it's been worth the money I spent, but once I've finished P4 and AC, and a few other games I have in mind, I feel it will end up being worthwhile.
As an owner of a PSP, a DS, and a Vita, I'm glad to weigh in here.
Sony has trouble producing a decent number of IPs for their handhelds but the games they do produce can be really good. That being said, I also use the systems as a media device. Movies, shows, music, etc. I also like to play classics like Front Mission 3 or FF7 and such which are readily available on the PS network. I prefer it to most tablets.
The DS game has a lot of IPs but most of them don't appeal to me. That's not their fault, they just miss my demographic. But I certainly wouldn't use it for all the media functions.
If my wife and I are traveling together we take the PSP and the Vita now.
Sony has trouble producing a decent number of IPs for their handhelds but the games they do produce can be really good. That being said, I also use the systems as a media device. Movies, shows, music, etc. I also like to play classics like Front Mission 3 or FF7 and such which are readily available on the PS network. I prefer it to most tablets.
The DS game has a lot of IPs but most of them don't appeal to me. That's not their fault, they just miss my demographic. But I certainly wouldn't use it for all the media functions.
If my wife and I are traveling together we take the PSP and the Vita now.
I am an early adopter of the Vita. My only complaint is the lack of games, but it plays what we have just fine. I really enjoy it, especially playing PSP games like Dissidia 012.
Things that I think would make the Vita a success aside from 3rd party development increases:
1. Add PS2 emulation and open up the classics library. I already enjoy the PSX games I own on the Playstation Network on my Vita (Symphony of the Night on a handheld is a great time waster) and I believe it would benefit the system greatly to have PS2 classics playable.
2. Follow through on the Crossplay/Crossbuy promise.
3. Add Flash/Shockwave support
4. Add a Vita indie development channel.
5. Lower price on the memory cards. I currently own 2x 4gb and 1x 8gb, mostly due to lucky finds when walking around a Walmart looking down at my feet.
I really feel the Vita is akin to the Dreamcast in that it has a lot of damn good potential but is being screwed by lack of 3rd party support. If it dies out I hope there will be a community dedicated to prolonging its life by developing at the very least some emulated game support.
I do feel the platform with its dual touchpads could really do well in the RTS market. Or even turn-based strategy (PORT XCOM ALREADY!!)
Also during travel I really enjoy using Netflix on there because of its crisp display. I am however unimpressed with the "mobile" component that makes it technically a "phone" but without any real phone support except for Skype which I do not use.
Things that I think would make the Vita a success aside from 3rd party development increases:
1. Add PS2 emulation and open up the classics library. I already enjoy the PSX games I own on the Playstation Network on my Vita (Symphony of the Night on a handheld is a great time waster) and I believe it would benefit the system greatly to have PS2 classics playable.
2. Follow through on the Crossplay/Crossbuy promise.
3. Add Flash/Shockwave support
4. Add a Vita indie development channel.
5. Lower price on the memory cards. I currently own 2x 4gb and 1x 8gb, mostly due to lucky finds when walking around a Walmart looking down at my feet.
I really feel the Vita is akin to the Dreamcast in that it has a lot of damn good potential but is being screwed by lack of 3rd party support. If it dies out I hope there will be a community dedicated to prolonging its life by developing at the very least some emulated game support.
I do feel the platform with its dual touchpads could really do well in the RTS market. Or even turn-based strategy (PORT XCOM ALREADY!!)
Also during travel I really enjoy using Netflix on there because of its crisp display. I am however unimpressed with the "mobile" component that makes it technically a "phone" but without any real phone support except for Skype which I do not use.
Yeah, the proprietary memory cards needs to stop. They literally prevent me from buying more games when I can't store them all in one place. The PSP had some nice alternate 3rd party cards that I found useable but this new vita card is so small I don't have too much hope for a work around (the PSP had an adapter that allowed the mini-memory sticks which meant I could use mini-memory sticks like they were games and swap them out as desired).amaranth_dru said:
As for the ps2 emulator. I know that the Vita's graphics are nicer or at least more optimized than the PS2 was, but is it actually capable of emulating it? I do expect a lot more emulation of the ps2 games with the ps4. So we'll quickly find out. But emulating proprietary hardware often requires a significant amount of processing, far beyond the specs of the physical hardware at the time.