Let Sony sell you on the PlayStation Vita [Joystiq]

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We've talked about Sony's new handheld plenty (http://www.joystiq.com/vita/), but we're not a pair of slickly-produced CG commercials now, are we? If anybody's going to give you the straight dope on the PlayStation Vita, it's surely the good people at Sony.Continue reading Let Sony sell you on the PlayStation Vita (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/13/let-sony-sell-you-on-the-playstation-vita/)

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[Oobgarm]

Provided I can scrape up $250 plus $40 for Uncharted, I'm in, no need to be "sold".

[Nz17]

And for the love of Kaz Hirai, get that man a Vita memory card!

[substantial_snake]

Already Sold. :P

Gravity Daze and Uncharted are the two games I will probably pick up at launch. I am also interested in the Vita installment of Killzone but I haven't see anything about it since the Vita's big reveal trailer this summer.

[Bojay1997]

Provided I can scrape up $250 plus $40 for Uncharted, I'm in, no need to be "sold".

You're gonna need another $30-$40 for the mandatory memory card to play Uncharted. Having said that, I am still in for a preorder for now.

[kupomogli]

Been sold on it since it was the NGP. Since its showing, I've been interested in Uncharted for sure. Gameplay looks pretty much the exact same as the other Uncharted games, as well as the addition of touch screen support.

There aren't any other launch titles that are "must have" for me, but I'll be picking up Little Big Planet and Wipeout as two for sure titles once a price drop hits. Kind of interested in Gravity Rush and Little Deviants but I'll have to see more of them.

Not sure of a release date, but also interested in picking up Ruin. Like Motorstorm RC(launch title) it's also a dual release with the PS3 version and Vita version in the same packaging. Transfarring.

[Jaruff]

I'll be sold on one when they hit $100. Hell, I've never owned a PSP unless you count the ones I flipped.

[Leo_A]

Sony's clarification that you can use multiple PSN accounts on this helps its case (It's 1 PSN account per memory card, not per system). I'll be able to keep my main account on my Vita and eventually pick up a cheap smaller memory to occasionally switch around netween my Euro account and alternate US account (Which thanks to Sony's problems a while back has several free PSP games tied to it now).

Not the perfect solution (How the PS3 handles it would've been ideal), but it's much more bearable for people with multiple PSN accounts that each have games on them than the hassle people were envisioning when we first heard it was limited to 1 PSN account. I won't have to just ignore the couple Euro PSP games and those two free PSP games now like I was thinking I'd have to.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Yeeup. I'm in, very likely at launch.

Not sure what games in the launch lineup I'll be buying, but a system and a memory card around the $40 mark for sure.

I've got scads of PSP, PSOne and Minis stuff on the network that I can download and play to keep me busy until prices come down a bit on the big memory cards. I'll re-download/delete as needed on a small to mid range card in the meantime.

Since I'm really used to traveling with just the PSP Go system these days, I think that a majority of my purchases will be on-PSN with this system, and only in the case of physical software with bonus/high-end physical content will I buy Vita game carts at brick/mortar.

This is one of the first generational advances where buying a lot of stuff online in the previous gen is a pay-off for day one content on a new system.

[duffmanth]

I'll probably get this thing sometime after launch? The $250 price tag seems fair to me, I would rather spend the extra money on a Sony memory card to as I've had reliability issues with generic memory cards in the past.

[kupomogli]

Sony's clarification that you can use multiple PSN accounts on this helps its case (It's 1 PSN account per memory card, not per system). I'll be able to keep my main account on my Vita and eventually pick up a cheap smaller memory to occasionally switch around netween my Euro account and alternate US account (Which thanks to Sony's problems a while back has several free PSP games tied to it now).

Not the perfect solution (How the PS3 handles it would've been ideal), but it's much more bearable for people with multiple PSN accounts that each have games on them than the hassle people were envisioning when we first heard it was limited to 1 PSN account. I won't have to just ignore the couple Euro PSP games and those two free PSP games now like I was thinking I'd have to.

The reason for tying the accounts to a card is more than likely a way to stop game sharing or atleast make money off of game sharing. If you're using a single card and switching accounts, you'll need to format the system with that card in there. That's fine if you have nothing on there, but what happens when you download everything and want to go back to your account? By formatting the card you lose everything on the card.

People could always download the games, transfer to their PC, then transfer back to the card once it's formatted again to get around this, but they'd have to do this every time they want to download something new. Then on top of that they'd have to transfer and then retransfer their own stuff or redownload it again. Too much hassle, so people will more than likely just buy another card.

It'll either reduce the amount of game sharing or make them money on other cards. Either way, Sony wins.

[Leo_A]

With only two activations per piece of content, I doubt Sony's too worried about gamesharing. The PSP was limited to 1 account per system and that came out nearly 2 years before the PS3 was released where game sharing seemed to take off (And was even encouraged early on by Sony).

Edit - It's certainly not an attempt to stop gamesharing since the limitation is 1 account per card, it's not 1 card per account. There's nothing stopping people from using that second activation they get under Sony's new rules on another Vita.

Now the change from 5 activations to 2 is certainly an attempt to curtail gamesharing now that it has fallen out of favor at Sony.

[Junkyrdsalesman]

The Vita is looking extremely promising at this point. I probably won't pick one up at launch because i don't want to be one of the guinea pigs, but there are already plenty of titles announced that i want to play. Also the 'special' memory card that the vita takes are extremely overpriced

[nickerous]

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is a must buy for me, but nothing else sounds very exciting right now. I'll probably wait until next Christmas to see what kind of bundles Sony throws together.

[otaku]

I owned all of the psp systems except the go. nice hardware but never enough games and the hardware was spendy. Honestly at this point I'd rather have and am saving for a 3DS (to play older DS and new 3ds games) the vita can wait till the price is lower and it has more than a handful of games to play

[kupomogli]

I owned all of the psp systems except the go. nice hardware but never enough games and the hardware was spendy. Honestly at this point I'd rather have and am saving for a 3DS (to play older DS and new 3ds games) the vita can wait till the price is lower and it has more than a handful of games to play

If you're lacking on good games to play for the PSP, even the most recent games are extremely cheap now. I have over 70 games, most of them I enjoy, so the system definitely isn't lacking on high quality titles.

Trails in the Sky is only $12 on Amazon, Premium version $17. Tactics Ogre is $10. Ys Oath in Felghana Premium for $15. Regular version for $19.99 and both are sold by Amazon.

But yeah. If there's any time to start collecting for the PSP it's now. The system has so many great games and while it's unfortunate they didn't sell well, anyone looking to build up their library can do so for cheap.