New Vita Press release - games list, battery life ('3-5 hours'), memory card info
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Callibretto
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it come with 32mb stick, which is absolutely useless for media, it's only intended for save data which most vita card can do it themselves.DSN2K said:
witchedwiz
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it'sShockingAlberto said:
oh
fuck
us
TWICE
and keep pounding and pounding..
no offense, but this is robbery, plain and simple
Spinning Plates
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For those that are disappointed by the battery life, have you ever considered getting an external battery pack?
This is the New Trent IMP1000 which has an 11,000 mAh capacity so would give you an extra 15-25 hours more gaming on the Vita.
You can use it with your smartphone, ipad, ipod touch, DS etc too. Surely gotta be worth a look if 3-5hrs will limit how you use it away from home.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZBZ64Q/?tag=neogaf0e-20
This is the New Trent IMP1000 which has an 11,000 mAh capacity so would give you an extra 15-25 hours more gaming on the Vita.
You can use it with your smartphone, ipad, ipod touch, DS etc too. Surely gotta be worth a look if 3-5hrs will limit how you use it away from home.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZBZ64Q/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I haven´t seen the conference, I´m not waking up in the middle of the not for video games (Qhich weren´t even shown, apparently), so I´ll comment on what I read on Gaf so far.
I expected memory card prices equaling highway robbery and PSP like battery life at most. As I said even before the 249 price was announced, 300 for the Vita was my cutoff point for getting it at launch.
So, I´m not positively surprised, but also not shocked and I will still get it day one once it hits Europe.
It has has Hot Shots Golf and an Uncharted game for launch, best launch eva!
Edit: Having such a battery pack in my backpack for train commutes doesn´t even seem a horrible idea, unless it gets hot.
I expected memory card prices equaling highway robbery and PSP like battery life at most. As I said even before the 249 price was announced, 300 for the Vita was my cutoff point for getting it at launch.
So, I´m not positively surprised, but also not shocked and I will still get it day one once it hits Europe.
It has has Hot Shots Golf and an Uncharted game for launch, best launch eva!
Edit: Having such a battery pack in my backpack for train commutes doesn´t even seem a horrible idea, unless it gets hot.
I NEED SCISSORS
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Personally I used to care about having masses of built-in storage, but it's starting to affect me less and less. I will not use the cameras on this thing to take pictures. I will not be putting video on it because it's a waste of space and streaming services now exist. I have my phone for music. Cloud storage is also the norm nowadays. If we have to buy proprietary memory cards, I won't mind as long as I can pick up a cheap 4-8gb card for a few PSN games. The games coming on cartridges with a bit of extra space for future DLC and saves negates any real need for tons of space. Now as for CFW - I hope a new angle of attack is eventually found, as I want that eventually.
On memory-card-gate, it's my one real disappointment about Vita on the hardware/platform side. I thought for sure they'd throw at least a token amount of storage in the box. I don't know who made the decisions on that, but thematically it seems so out of step with everything else. Very regressive vs the PS3 stance too.
On a more positive note, though, I think the 3G stuff is very smart, and hopefully we'll see similar plans over here. Interesting that they're not even touching contracts in Japan...just (very accessible) prepaid cards. I could go months and months with the 4980 yen card, assuming it's a contiguous amount of time and I can switch it on and off as I please - and it doesn't expire within a set timeframe. If they had similar stuff here I'd undoubtedly get the 3G model.
On a more positive note, though, I think the 3G stuff is very smart, and hopefully we'll see similar plans over here. Interesting that they're not even touching contracts in Japan...just (very accessible) prepaid cards. I could go months and months with the 4980 yen card, assuming it's a contiguous amount of time and I can switch it on and off as I please - and it doesn't expire within a set timeframe. If they had similar stuff here I'd undoubtedly get the 3G model.
betty swollocks
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Is there any down side to importing this? Does anyone have any experience here?
Will it be easy enough to switch the languages? Is that option even provided? I'm aware of the 'o' and 'x' confirm / back difference. Others?
Will the games likely have options to switch to English?
Thanks
Will it be easy enough to switch the languages? Is that option even provided? I'm aware of the 'o' and 'x' confirm / back difference. Others?
Will the games likely have options to switch to English?
Thanks
Nuclear Muffin
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I NEED SCISSORS said:
I play on brightness level 3, it's just fine. Brightness 5 (max) is overkill.
Same as with the DSL and the DSi. I would always play with mid brightness.
3DS' max battery life is 6.5 hours when playing 3DS games (DS games of course last much longer), lowest is 3 hours (2.5 for AR games)
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/26166
Oh, not to mention that the AR games on PS Vita would suck up even more battery life than other games (thanks to the constant use of the camera). I would expect the PS Vita's battery life to range from 90 mins (max brightness, WiFi/3G on, AR game with fuck awesome graphics being played), to 5 hours (lowest brightness, very simple 2D game, sound off, WiFi/3G off)
Suzzopher said:
Because video out on the PSP killed the PS2, right?
Number45 said:
http://www.andriasang.com/comy5x/
Spinning Plates said:For those that are disappointed by the battery life, have you ever considered getting an external battery pack?
This is the New Trent IMP1000 which has an 11,000 mAh capacity so would give you an extra 15-25 hours more gaming on the Vita.
You can use it with your smartphone, ipad, ipod touch, 3DS etc too. Surely gotta be worth a look if 3-5hrs will limit how you use it away from home.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZBZ64Q/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Does this also work for the 3DS or has Ninty a proprietary plug again?
Nuclear Muffin
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Durante said:
The fact that they said "default brightness" and WiFi/3G off when quoting those variable hours means that the variation in battery life (2 hour difference) has to come from how graphics intensive the games are (and not how bright the screen is, or if WiFi is on)
If you're playing a graphically intensive game like Uncharted on "default brightness" (which is probably either the lowest or 2nd lowest brightness) and with WiFi/3G off, you're gonna get 3 hours of battery life out of it. If you're playing Sound Shapes on the same settings, you're gonna get 5 hours.
Adding on more brightness + Wireless + AR camera stuff will drag the battery life down significantly.
Spinning Plates
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FoxSpirit said:
Actually im not sure. Best to check out some of those reviews.
Kotaku has more detail on the 3G plans in Japan.
http://kotaku.com/5840053/the-ps-vitas-3g-plan-could-raise-eyebrows-in-japan
Basically the 20 hour card expires after a month, the 100 hour card after 6 months.
After a card expires you have 14 days to decide whether you want to buy more time or not - if you decide not to buy more and wish to buy again later, you'll have to pay the initialisation fee again.
In short...50 bucks every 6 months would get you about 30 minutes a day of 3G connectivity.
http://kotaku.com/5840053/the-ps-vitas-3g-plan-could-raise-eyebrows-in-japan
Basically the 20 hour card expires after a month, the 100 hour card after 6 months.
After a card expires you have 14 days to decide whether you want to buy more time or not - if you decide not to buy more and wish to buy again later, you'll have to pay the initialisation fee again.
In short...50 bucks every 6 months would get you about 30 minutes a day of 3G connectivity.
Erethian said:
Heh...so it's 3-5 hrs ...
...without wifi,without speakers on... and on the default brightness.
I think that deserves far more outrage than it's getting (considering how much Nintendo was ripped to shreds for their battey life..and Nintendo tend to be far more truthful).
Nuclear Muffin
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Taker666 said:
Actually, Nintendo lowballed the 3DS battery life (like how they always lowball the battery life of their handhelds)
3DS gets a max of 6.5 hours while playing 3DS games, not 5.
Oh my god. :|Nonoriri said:
I'd have found those prices a bit easier to stomach if there was a 64gb model, and that was ¥9,500, with the 32gb being ¥5,500, and so on. The current prices are just plain extortionate.
As it stands, my Vita will lose about 20gb to my current PSP library, so I'm probably going to stick to mostly physical releases on Vita and use the memory stick as a repository for my backwards compatible PSP and PSone games.
A shame.
Who said anything about the 3DS being safe? I bet hackers are already hard at work trying to find an exploit as we speak -- to circumvent the region lock, of course -- and the SD cards will probably be the way to get the exploit onto the system.Sennorin said:
See: Wii's Letterbomb hack.
Lovely Salsa
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What formats Will the games be in?? Discs? Carts?
betty swollocks said:Is there any down side to importing this? Does anyone have any experience here?
Will it be easy enough to switch the languages? Is that option even provided? I'm aware of the 'o' and 'x' confirm / back difference. Others?
Will the games likely have options to switch to English?
Thanks
anything official from Sony on whether Vita is region-free?
I NEED SCISSORS said:
I usually play with the second highest brightnesss; and lately I've only played Virtual Console, so no 3D enabled, which also helps.
I think it's fair to assume that it's a similiar deal with Vita; 3-5 hours will mean 3 hours with the highest brightness and wifi enabled
There must be some on-board memory though, right?
http://psp.ign.com/articles/117/1174783p1.html
mrklaw said:
http://psp.ign.com/articles/117/1174783p1.html
Both companies are quoting similar battery life for similar conditions. With the OoT remake already pushing measured results to about 2.5 hrs, I suspect Vita's will be better in practice, even in Uncharted and the like.
Documented numbers from OMAP SoCs demonstrate how much less power is consumed by the GPU than by the CPU or certain other parts of the device, so increased GPU usage isn't such a major factor.
Documented numbers from OMAP SoCs demonstrate how much less power is consumed by the GPU than by the CPU or certain other parts of the device, so increased GPU usage isn't such a major factor.
Betta Lines
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What about the weight dammit? It's the most important spec for me. Have they still not confirmed it?
Nuclear Muffin
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beril said:
We already know that's not the case. That's for the "default brightness" (take that for what you will) and with WiFi/3G off.
nelsonroyale
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Yeah, I think I will go for the wifi version