Playstation Vita

[dairugger]

its been confirmed that the vita will be region free when it launches this dec in japan. i wonder if the dlc and movies and such will have a problem when you use a japan vita in america next year?

http://psp.ign.com/articles/119/1195...#disqus_thread

From NeoGAF comes confirmation of something we kind of already suspected but didn't exactly know for sure: PlayStation Vita is region-free, just like the PSP and PlayStation 3. This means that you can play a game from any territory on the handheld, and it will work just fine without having to modify or otherwise alter your Vita.

Twitter user @lonelypessimist Tweeted friend of Podcast Beyond Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp), President of Sony's Worldwide Studios. He asked "is it confirmed yet if vita is region free?" to which Yoshida succinctly answered "Yes, it is."


i didnt see a dedicated vita thread, perhaps one can be made?

[kupomogli]

Being a Gundam fan and absolutely no games come to the US any longer, region free is another plus for me. Pair that with the great looking line up of launch and launch window games I'm sold.

Capcom announced Ultimate MvC 3 DLC tied to your PSN account will work on both the PS3 and Vita. It's good that the DLC will work multiplatform, but guess what(and this isn't about the Vita?) More pre release Capcom DLC. Bet it's already done and will be released after the games release.

[dairugger]

it looks like the vita will expand upon what the psp was, and i adored my psp, took it everywhere!, still do.

on another note it looks like the design of the vita has been tweaked slightly from what was shown at E3.
http://psp.ign.com/articles/119/1194436p1.html

its also been confirmed the vita will have a external battery that will last 8-9 hours. i wonder how thatll look..

[The 1 2 P]

This was Sony's way of punking Nintendo for abandoning region free games on the 3DS. And it gives them one more bullet point to put on the back of the box although I doubt they will use it.

[sidnotcrazy]

I am sold on the Vita now.

[kupomogli]

i didnt see a dedicated vita thread, perhaps one can be made?

Edit the topic to Playstation Vita.

Aside from having a ton of amazing games, there is one other thing the PSP did for Sony(not by Sony, but regardless.) I think it pretty much made a name for itself as the console for niche titles because that's really most of what was released when nothing else was coming out. I think a lot of announcements show this seems to have been carried over to the Vita.

So regardless if the Vita loses to the 3DS or not, atleast the Vita's going to have those niche developers on lockdown. :P

[DeputyMoniker]

This was Sony's way of punking Nintendo for abandoning region free games on the 3DS. And it gives them one more bullet point to put on the back of the box although I doubt they will use it.

[badinsults]

It is a big pain in the ass that the 3DS isn't region free for me, as I purchased a North American model, and I live in Australia. It will still be cheaper to import North American games than to buy them locally...

[The 1 2 P]

You should make that your new avatar. It would suit you well.

[duffmanth]

The region free thing is nice, but I was sold on the Vita anyway. I don't know if I'll get it at launch, but probably within the first year? It looks like Sony has addressed all of the PSP's shortcomings with the Vita, the addition of dual analog sticks, what appears to be a solid launch lineup of games, and a price that pretty much everyone expected.

[Lady Jaye]

I hope that Sony has put the on-off button at a better place than on the PSP-3000. It happened way too often that in the midst of an action-heavy game, I've accidentally hit the on-off button and put the game on sleep (not a big deal) or actually rebooted the PSP.

What sells me on the Vita is the announcement regarding the remake of Ys IV. I can only suppose that X-Seed will localize it and if such is the case, I'll definitely pick up the game, even if it means waiting for a while before actually having a Vita.

[Damaramu]

Sold! I was interested in the Vita after E3, but now all this information is out on the Vita I am definitely getting one, quite possibly at launch (something I rarely do).

The PSP is by far my favorite hand held. It is quite a versatile machine, especially after I had mine hacked!

[Leo_A]

i wonder if the dlc and movies and such will have a problem when you use a japan vita in america next year?

I'm sure any movies would be region locked.

And I imagine downloadable content for PS3 software will have some region limitations just like it does on the PS3. Download an expansion pack from the North American PSN for a specific game while owning the region free European release of the game won't work, for instance. The expansion will install to a folder like "Game X (North America)", but the European disc copy will be looking for a folder called "Game X (Europe)" and won't see it. You have to match your patches and expansions with the region your retail game or download came from, even though they're the same game and the same download.

And I imagine you'll continue to not be able to use a credit card with an account from a different region just like PSN does today (Although you can just import a points card to work around that).

I bet it will be pretty similar to how the Playstation 3 and PSN on the system operates. You're pretty free to do what you want and play what you want, especially now that PSN points card have become available that you can import to easily make purchases from other regions. That was the biggest roadblock early on to fully enjoying the region free nature of the PS3.

This was Sony's way of punking Nintendo for abandoning region free games on the 3DS. And it gives them one more bullet point to put on the back of the box although I doubt they will use it.

Considering that the Playstation 3 is region free for games and that handhelds (including the PSP) have traditionally been region free, I really doubt it has anything to do with the 3DS.

[G-Boobie]

So you guys can argue about whether or not theoretical people have had issues with the PS3 all you want: I'm on my third unit, which would be my fourth if I didn't pay to have my 60 gig fixed. I had to mail it to Chicago because when I contacted Sony to confirm that I'd get a backwards compatible unit in return for my busted backwards compatible unit, they couldn't guarantee it.

I lost one to the YLOD and my girlfriend's died so completely that it wouldn't even switch on. Utterly inert.

And no, Frankie, we don't smoke, we dust every week, the consoles sit out in the open with no vents covered and plenty of ventilation, there are no children pouring juice into them, etc.

I'll wait until all the inevitable kinks are worked out of the Vita. I haven't had the best reliablility experience this generation.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

So you guys can argue about whether or not theoretical people have had issues with the PS3 all you want: I'm on my third unit, which would be my fourth if I didn't pay to have my 60 gig fixed. I had to mail it to Chicago because when I contacted Sony to confirm that I'd get a backwards compatible unit in return for my busted backwards compatible unit, they couldn't guarantee it.

I lost one to the YLOD and my girlfriend's died so completely that it wouldn't even switch on. Utterly inert.

And no, Frankie, we don't smoke, we dust every week, the consoles sit out in the open with no vents covered and plenty of ventilation, there are no children pouring juice into them, etc.

I'll wait until all the inevitable kinks are worked out of the Vita. I haven't had the best reliablility experience this generation.

*sigh*

I didn't deny that PS3s break down (YLOD, etc.) and I wasn't about to challenge you or anybody who has had issues with their PS3.

I'm personally on my second 60GB PS3! (FYI Sony presently guarantees a model-for-model replacement on all hardware repairs, so 60GB BC owners rest easy if repair is needed)

Ultimately, electronics break down via regular, standard usage.

Hell, EVERYTHING breaks, there is no perpetual anything.

I'm on my 6th XBOX360, 4th PS2, I lost count of how many PS1s I owned during that system's peak popularity, and I take excellent care of my hardware.

I merely challenged the notion that some type of extraordinary hardware failure is or ever was a quote-unquote "significant" issue in the history of the system akin to what we've seen in other systems (especially its contemporary the XBOX360)

Sony happened to officially be on record with a statistic of -1 percent failure rate pre-2007.

I didn't make that statistic up but if some sample data from a 3rd party company of 2000-something PS3 owners in 2009 says differently, fine, we'll use that data. No problem.

That data still doesn't add up to something statistically "significant", and that's not my opinion, that's a by-the-numbers fact.

Now, NES1, PS1, PS2, XBOX 360, those are some systems that come to mind when discussing systems designed with significant flaws which ultimately required a drastic hardware revision with some measure of intent to alleviate hardware failure via regular usage.

[98PaceCar]

I'm pretty sure that the standard definition of statistically significant is 5%. Being at 10% would be easily significant in that case. Just because other similar hardware has a higher rate doesn't change the fact that the PS3 suffered a high rate of early failures.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Alright, fine.

5% is a dictionary definition of mathematical significance, therefore PS3s have a high failure rate.

It's hard to argue with that in the face of any other data pertinent or otherwise, so, consider that my complete and total concession on the subject.

I'm done derailing/debating semantics.

On with the Playstation Vita discussion, please.

[98PaceCar]

Alright, fine.

5% is a dictionary definition of mathematical significance, therefore PS3s have a high failure rate.

It's hard to argue with that in the face of any other data pertinent or otherwise, so, consider that my complete and total concession on the subject.

I'm done derailing/debating semantics.

On with the Playstation Vita discussion, please.

The only data that has been presented is what Bojay posted. If you have a link to data that shows contrary, post it. Getting upset because people disagree with you isn't the way to debate a point.

On the topic of the Vita, have any jpn stores announced preorders yet?

[skaar]

The only data that has been presented is what Bojay posted. If you have a link to data that shows contrary, post it. Getting upset because people disagree with you isn't the way to debate a point.

lol

On the topic of the Vita, have any jpn stores announced preorders yet?

I know I want one.

[Emuaust]

The only data that has been presented is what Bojay posted. If you have a link to data that shows contrary, post it. Getting upset because people disagree with you isn't the way to debate a point.

On the topic of the Vita, have any jpn stores announced preorders yet?

QFT

Frankie says Relax unless its defending Sony?


Anyway, Im a bit on the fence regarding the Vita, it looks great but I just feel like the handheld experience is somewhat dead, companies seem to want to push what I would regard as console game experience on a handheld device. I personally would prefer to play those types of games on my big TV