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Sony Unveils the PS Vita TV and Slimmer Vita Handheld
Dave Knott writes "Sony today announced the PS Vita TV box. Measuring 6.5cm by 10.5cm, it can play Vita games on your television, stream content via HDMI or wirelessly, and play all the existing PlayStation Network content available on the standard Vita platform. This is seen by some analysts as an attempt by Sony to compete with such devices as the Ouya and Apple TV. The PS Vita TV is so far announced for a Japan-only release in early 2014 at a price of approximately $100 US. In related news, Sony also announced a lighter, slimmer, more colorful iteration of the standard Vita handheld console."
The $100 model does not come with a controller; a $150 model was also announced that will include a Dualshock 3 and an 8G memory card.
Is this thing still around? I thought it had gone the way of the Zune.
Hey Sony, you could sell more of these if you just hid the ads online in your customer database and waited for someone to hack you again.
I think this is a great idea if they can finally start allowing your vita to have multiple accounts at once. Currently, the only way to switch accounts is to reset the thing to factory defaults (which involves watching an annoying video when it starts for the "first" time), as well as format your memory card. This is pretty inconvenient on a portable, but would be flat out ridiculous on more of a home console type system.
6.5cm by 10.5cm by what? That's like saying how many platters are in a hard drive without saying the capacity of each.
Obviously there is no way I am reading the article.
I'd be curious to know how (though probably never will) regional price sensitivities will factor in to the decision to launch or not launch a device such as this in various areas:
Especially now that 'current-gen handheld' is dangerously close to 'surprisingly endurable even on a large TV, if TV-out exists, and probably shares many components with common cellphones', the notion of shoving a cost-optimized version of one into a box along with a component video cable and calling it a console in markets too price sensitive to be good sellers for your 'serious' console might actually work pretty well. However, outside of the hardcore, it might work a little too well even among people who could afford your 'real' console; but really just want to putz around on something so why pay more?
I wonder if that will factor into Sony's regional release strategy: a screenless, battery-less, not wildly powerful Cortex-A9/SGX543 ARM SoC board isn't likely to be getting more expensive as time passes, and online sales from the back catalog are likely to be either pure profit or pure cost recovery of a game that flopped long ago; but having such a potentially-aggressively-priced option on the market might not help move newer products...
This seems to be Sony's hedging of their bets that maybe handheld gaming devices are in their dying days. They get to turn the Vita into a pseudo-console/PS4 accessory and keep developers on the Vita platform in general. Maybe this is what Nintendo should be doing instead of a 2DS?
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What's wrong with the OLED?
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it's like buying a half-assed PS3 with equally half-assed games! games designed for a small screen are not going to translate well to a large screen. i'll stick to my PS3 and (soon) PS4.
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they don't sell a lot at once, but they sell consistently for years and years. Plus with a smaller base of software they can count on what they do put out selling nearly 1 to 1 with the console. Basically, it's the same model Nintendo had going with the Gamecube.
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It streams video to my TV from Sony's video delivery platform, plays Sony games on the TV, does Netflix, etc., etc., etc..
For some reason they call it a Playstation 3 though...
Is to convince people to BUY PS Vita and it's games. It has the worst adoption rate of ALL handheld games, Even the out of date PSP still outsells it.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
ny portable playstation product doesn't want to live. No one cares how solid the platform is. No one cared how solid a neo-geo platform was either, or even how simple it was to program for the Game Gear because it reused 99% of the SMS platform. NO ONE'S GOING TO BUY IT, JUST LIKE NO ONE BOUGHT THE LAST ONE.
If using the DualShock 3 poses the problem of lack of touchscreen for some games, I'm sure Sony will allow using a PSVita as controller, so you can actually.. oh, wait..
The first time it popped up and told me I couldn't play my lawfully ripped video content through my PS3 was the very last time I bought a sony device for streaming movies.
Take my monies!
OLED is not sunlight viewable and the colours wear down quickly and unevenly (blue elements deteriorate the fastest) leaving you with a yellowish tint and a dim display.
The last sony something I bought was a PS3. Oh we allow you to blah blah... and then *BANG* and people attempting to hack it are suddenly all criminals. I bought a sony camcorder before that, and it had a gob of proprietary bits too that are only somewhat available, proprietary, and very expensive. I can buy other manufacturers stuff, for less, and its not proprietary and compatible, and no one else cares when I try to modify it for the better. I don't buy sony anymore.
TN LCDs can be kind of yellowish too, IPS LCDs are better but more expensive.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Rather than have a separate stand alone product, they should done something similar to the neo geo x with its console where you plug in the hand held..
At this point in time I couldn't care less about Sony or what they 'invent'. The only reason I actually bothered to check out the story at all, was to look at responses; it appears I am not the only person totally uninterested in Sony anymore.
Nihil in publicum sputa.
That made so many people just shit rainbows with their psp! Wasteland of shovelware, half the features are broke or useless and what does Sony do? release a slim model, that doesnt work with any of the shit you already have.
Good job guys, thats how you dominate the handheld market, not that pussy shit like Nintendo did ... backwards compatibility for damn near 30 years and a great library of games, no sir! its fucking usb cables and controller sales!
They described it as best-of-class at the conference, so I'm sure it's IPS.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
A lot of people are harping on about how lame this is without noticing the most important feature of this device.
This device can do anything a Vita can do, *INCLUDING PS4 REMOTE PLAY*. IE, with this device you can play your PS4 on your bedroom TV while the PS4 is in the basement. This is a huge feature because it basically makes you able to extend your PS4 to any room in the house for $100.
Furthermore, this works over the internet, just like the Vita. So you can bring this tiny little box on trips and hook it up to the hotel TV to play your PS4 games on the road.
It is a HUGE product. I think Sony is not marketing it properly because no one is understanding all the features.
I was one of those who purchased a PS Vita sometime ago. I found the selection of games to be mostly casual style games. The cost of the games is prohibitive to anyone but those with disposable income. I've seen a number of games on there cost upwards of £29, where the same game can be bought for IOS for a lot less (£2 or below). Until Sony sort this out, it's always going to be a niche player (if that) and nothing more. It a shame, as the hardware is the PS Vita is powerful enough to have some serious killer games on there. I'm selling mine if you're interested :)
Most likely. Pretty much all handheld devices use IPS LCDs. Both of my phones and both of my tablets have it.
While many people won't admit it, most people usually enjoy fingering something in the back to give them enjoyment.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Extra hour of battery and thankfully they dumped OLED for LCD. I might actually get one of these once they hit $150 or less.
Why was this modded down?