PlayStation Vita Japanese Launch Thread. "APOCALYPTIC!" says concerned Nuclear Muffin
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Paracelsus
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You need to give proper feedback on the sticks for fighting games. <_<
Dead Prince
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or find a way build an arcade stick that allows you to plug the vita into it and use it as a screen and also allows video out to a big screen D:
I played BlazBlue and UMVC3 on the Vita's D-pad and they were fine, who plays fighting games on analog sticks anyway?
Don't kill me. 
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
PLAYSTATION VITA
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YEA!
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Paracelsus
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I played BlazBlue and UMVC3 on the Vita's D-pad and they were fine, who plays fighting games on analog sticks anyway?Don't kill me.
I almost busted my thumb open on the PSP 2000 d-pad trying to beat SFA3M world tour mode, I'm not sure I want to go down that path again.
sixteen-bit
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You'll need a proxy service like tenso.com because they don't ship games internationally.
Vita's d-pad is different from the PSP one, so it might not be that bad. Plus, it would be worse to break the stick, right?
IIRC you can't order video games from Amazon Japan if you're shipping to an address outside the country.
MarkMan
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I played BlazBlue and UMVC3 on the Vita's D-pad and they were fine, who plays fighting games on analog sticks anyway?Don't kill me.
WOLFKRONE. Probably the best pad Street Fighter player of all time. He uses analog sticks.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/16/vita-street-fighter-x-tekken-will-share-dlc-with-ps3-version-ma/
Ono-san mentioned that. So who knows!
Phoenician_Viking
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How many VITA are you picking up?
AgentOtaku
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Yes and yes. A little more than double the price if I were to wait. But this is my holiday present to myself so I don't care.
DEM POCKETS!
THEY'RE DEEEP!
Why am I thinking of Tony the Tiger?
AgentOtaku
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Because you're awesome
sixteen-bit
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Didn't he recently switch to arcade sticks?
I got $2700 in funds from my previous job (tax return stuff+bonus money from the in-laws), although two grand went towards a trip with my wife (which is how I got the okay to import this thing, lol) plus I've made sure to ask relatives for dat cash as gifts this year...Vita being the reason, lol. The difference comes out to under $300, which while pricey, is something I should be able to get in gift money pretty easily. I also have a sidejob I do monthly that nets me $135 or more for only an hour or two of work.
Still, if I waited, that $300 could be used for a bunch of U.S. launch titles...
The Abominable Snowman
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I thought he TRIED it... then switched back.
BotoxAgent
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i would kill for an attachable joystick
i can't play pad with fighting games, too hard and uncomfortable for me.
i can't play pad with fighting games, too hard and uncomfortable for me.
djSyndrome
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I'm guessing you're young enough to not care that investing that $2700 now would pay huge dividends when it's time to retire?
It's not like the nine-month wait for the original PlayStation to show up here; it's barely 60 days. Tough it out.
sakipon
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I'd say life is short and it's only money. I've spent things on similar things myself, even if this time I'm planning to wait for Vita's Western release. It'll be a long couple of months though.
Domstercool
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Looking forward to seeing all these launch games get tested on video. 
Reluctant-Hero
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So we can use the right stick to control the camera in titles like 3rd Birthday abd Resistance: Retribution as long as we can configure the game's camera controls to the d-pad?
Fuck me, if so, I'm even more stoked for Vita!
Blue Submarine No. 6
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I would hope that Resistance would use the right stick through the code for the DS3 built into it (you could use the right analog stick for camera when playing the game hooked up through your PS3)
^^^ ya jelly...Totally jealous of the Japanese right now
Expecting lots of awesome impressions and stuff
JosephManderley
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You know what I love most about hardware launches? The lines! Bring on the pics of people freezing their asses off waiting!
Zoe
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Basically "spend the end of the year and the beginning of the year playing games" and "When you play, you're friends*"
* "nakama" for you One Piece fanatics
This is what I have to look forward to in Feb. Global warming hasn't turned Canada into a tropical paradise yet.
Blue Submarine No. 6
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Don't be too sure of that. It's ten days before Christmas and it's RAINING in Ottawa, and we have yet to see ANY snow this year...
sixteen-bit
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When users take high resolution photos once they get theirs.
I'm in Kitchener and it's raining here too. We're gonna pay for this come Feb and March.
Castor Krieg
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?????? I just remembered 3rd Birthday!!! Hmmm, if I can map the second stick, I will replay that game for sure!
Here are those PlayStation Vita ads from Japan:
Very strange coincidence...
Drop the act. We already know you're Kaz Hirai.
Infinite Justice
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hmm this should be interesting hearing whats up plus remember to drop the knowledge about the multiple memory card/region accounts stuff DCharlie 
Here are those PlayStation Vita ads from Japan:
Here's the de-evolution of my avatar:
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This is the source image:
Very strange coincidence...
lol
Anyway as a Nintendo leaning gamer I hope Vita succeeds. It would be sad to see such an excellently engineered handheld fail. I think it'll succeed in Japan, its in the west that worries me. I'd like nintendo and sony to show all these analysts that there is a market for dedicated handhelds, even if they become somewhat smaller than mobile in the future.
Don't fall for his reverse psychology!
This is the source image:
Very strange coincidence...
It looks like she swallowed the Vita.
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